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The Latest Breaking News from Salvador Allende

Idealism Rules in Patricio Guzmán’s Chile

The exiled filmmaker’s latest work is a passionate—if incomplete—account of the 2019 estallido and its aftermath.

Foreign Policy

Rory Cormac's How to Stage a Coup is an entertaining critique, not a how-to manual

In Katie Kitamura’s brilliant novel Intimacies (2022), the story of a former African dictator being tried in the International Criminal Court, there is a summary of the case against the accused:

The Conversation

Luis Echeverría obituary

Former Mexican president who took office promising reform but oversaw a dirty war against dissidents

The Guardian - UK

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How The Clash's Joe Strummer inspired progressive politics in his fans

Joe Strummer, lead singer and lyricist for the seminal punk band, The Clash, died 20 years ago this December. Strummer, the son of a British senior civil servant and whose real name was John Graham Mellor, wrote songs that did not shy away from the politics of the Thatcher era…

The Conversation

Luis Echeverria, a Mexican leader who was blamed for massacres, dies at age 100

The former president, blamed for some of Mexico's worst political killings of the 20th century, has died at the age of 100, current President Andrés Manuel López Obrador confirmed.

WEKU

Ex-president of Mexico Luis Echeverria dies at 100

Former Mexican president Luis Echeverria has died at the age of 100

The Independent UK

'Old windbags go home': author Allende heralds Chile's new political generation

Chilean author Isabel Allende heralded the young and female-dominated incoming government of President-elect Gabriel Boric on Monday and said it marked a much-needed changing of the guard of the Andean country's political leadership.

Reuters

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Review: Allende's 'Violeta,' an epic South American tale

Chilean writer Isabel Allende’s latest novel is “Violeta,” an epic tale that transports readers across a century of South American history, through economic collapse, dictatorship and natural disasters like an earthquake and a hurricane

The Independent UK

Chile’s president-elect names progressive, majority-women cabinet

Gabriel Boric, 35, picks youthful team including at defence the granddaughter of Salvador Allende, who was overthrown in a military coup

The Guardian - US

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