The experience of Chile’s Salvador Allende illustrates how the private sphere and superpowers control investment and natural resource exploitation
Did compulsory voting give evangelicals the opportunity to trash progressive reforms?
Witnessing 9/11 in New York, the fear and the unity, no one could agree if we were entering a new world, or a depressingly familiar one
Experts studying the remains of Salvador Allende concluded the former president committed suicide.
The remains of deposed Chilean president Salvador Allende have been removed from his tomb to determine if he committed suicide or was assassinated.
A Chilean judge ordered the remains of former president Salvador Allende exhumed for an investigation into whether he was murdered in a 1973 coup.
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/ 28 January 2008
A New Zealand anti-apartheid campaigner has rejected a nomination for a South African award, saying he is dismayed over conditions in the country. John Minto was the national coordinator of the Halt All Racist Tours movement, and said black South Africans were now ”worse off than they were under minority rule”.
Master of the middlebrow or late magical-realist? Isabel Allende discusses her writing with Aida Edermariam