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Director Pablo Larraín: ‘Chile is my world. How can I not be allowed to talk about the things that happened to us?’

Augusto Pinochet returns as a bloodsucking vampire – together with Margaret Thatcher – in El Conde, the Chilean director’s black comedy horror. He talks about his fascination with the dictator and why, despite his family ties, he feels empowered to keep telling stories about his country

The Guardian - UK

The Catholic Church defended human rights during Chile’s dictatorship. An archive tells the story

The archive of the Vicariate of Solidarity gives an account of a painful episode in Chile’s history: 47,000 instances of human rights violations during the dictatorship of General Augusto Pinochet, who took power after a military coup that deposed President Salvador Allende 50 years ago

The Independent UK

Movie Review: Pinochet as a vampire in surreal, frightening ‘El Conde’

The Chilean dictator Augusto Pinochet is not dead in Pablo Larraín’s “El Conde.”

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Fifty years after Chile’s coup, the search for truth continues

As 1973 coup still reverberates, a man is pushing for full history of US role in Augusto Pinochet’s rise and fall.

Al Jazeera

AP PHOTOS: 50 years ago, Chile's army ousted a president and everything changed

Fifty years ago, Chile began the darkest period in its modern history.

The Independent UK

A half-century after Gen. Augusto Pinochet's coup, some in Chile remember the dictatorship fondly

The world remembers Gen. Augusto Pinochet as the dictator whose regime tortured, killed and disappeared 3,065 people in the name of fighting communism

The Independent UK

Fifty years on: the lasting tragedy of Chile’s coup

The brutality with which an elected government was deposed inspired military takeovers across Latin America – but also galvanised the human rights movement and spotlighted the dark activities of the CIA

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AOC urges US to apologize for meddling in Latin America: ‘We’re here to reset relationships’

Democratic congresswoman calls for acknowledgment of past intrusion in effort to restore trust in US leadership in the region

The Guardian - US

Venice film festival roundup – Adam Driver’s Ferrari roars in to soup up a subpar opening week

A ponderous Italian wartime drama and Pablo Larraín’s one-joke General Pinochet satire threatened to sink the actors’ strike-hit 80th Venice film festival – until Michael Mann’s racing thriller hit the gas

The Guardian - UK

Chile will search for 1,000+ victims of forced disappearance by Pinochet dictatorship

It is the first time the Chilean government will lead the search for victims, something which victims' relatives and advocates have long carried out themselves and have sought help from the army.

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El Conde review – Pablo Larraín’s horror-satire pitches Pinochet as a vampire

Macabre alt-history faces the ongoing agony of Chile, and the Chilean people’s struggle to confront their past, with graphic-novel energy and directness

The Guardian - UK

Chile announces much-anticipated plan to search for Pinochet’s victims

Chilean state finally assumes responsibility for finding those executed and forcibly disappeared under dictatorship

The Guardian - UK

US state department declassifies more documents about Pinochet’s 1973 coup

Papers reveal how Richard Nixon was briefed on impending military takeover in Chile that ushered in 17-year dictatorship

The Guardian - US

AOC calls on US to declassify documents that could shed light on Washington’s involvement in Chilean coup

U.S. Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez says in Chile that it is imperative for the United States to declassify documents that could shed light on its involvement in the South American country’s 1973 coup

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The 1973 coup against democratic socialism in Chile still matters – there, in Britain and beyond

It happened 50 years ago, changed the course of world history – and revealed just how authoritarian conservatives are, says Guardian columnist Andy Beckett

The Independent UK

Rep. Ocasio-Cortez calls on US to declassify documents on Chile's 1973 coup

Total Film

First trailer for vampire satire from director of divisive Princess Diana biopic is here

Pinochet is a vampire in this off-kilter horror movie

The Independent UK

Movie Review: Documentary 'The Eternal Memory' shows that love is stronger than dementia

“The Eternal Memory” begins with a confused Augusto Góngora waking up one morning as his wife of two decades gently greets him

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The Conversation

From Oppenheimer to Milton Friedman: how the Cold War battle of economic ideas shaped our world

Is Oppenheimer a movie for our time, reminding us of the tensions, dangers and conflicts of the old Cold War while a new one threatens to break out?

The Guardian - US

Files reveal Nixon role in plot to block Allende from Chilean presidency

President hosted rightwing mogul Agustín Edwards in September 1970 and discussed plans to foil socialist election-winner

Reason

The Chicago Boys' Deal With the Devil

The Chile Project surveys neoliberalism's most polarizing experiment.

The Guardian - US

How an eccentric English tech guru helped guide Allende’s socialist Chile

Stafford Beer pioneered ‘cybernetic management principles’ but Pinochet’s coup saw technology turned to nefarious ends

The Guardian - UK

Enrique Zapata-Bravo obituary

Other lives: Psychiatrist who moved to England fleeing the Pinochet regime and worked to help refugees across the UK and around the world

The Conversation

Kissinger at 100: his legacy might be mixed but his importance has been enormous

Henry Kissinger, who turns 100 on May 27, is widely regarded as one of the most influential figures in 20th-century international relations. The German-born American diplomat, scholar and strategist has left an indelible legacy in global politics that continues to act as a bookmark for international relations scholars, students and…

The Guardian - UK

Alan Phillips obituary

Human rights adviser who in the 1970s proposed that aid to Chile should be reallocated to support humanitarian programmes

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