This is the grave of Ralph Dungan. Born in Philadelphia in 1923, Dungan grew up in the city, went into the Navy in World War II as a flight instructor, and then used the new GI Bill to attend St. Joseph's University back at home....
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This ought to be well worth exploring. The American government has declassified information about the 1973 Pinochet coup in Chile, opening up information on just what the Nixon administration knew,.
An aerial view shows the brine pools of SQM lithium mine on the Atacama salt flat in the Atacama desert of northern Chile, January 10, 2013. Picture taken January 10,.
It's just great that as the U.S. is going backwards on women's rights that Latin America is moving ahead. I mean, who wouldn't want to be falling behind such beacons of women's rights as the most Catholic nations in the world? Latin America continues to...
This is pretty interesting and I didn't know about it, though I do know that there are unionized Walmarts in Chile: The Starbucks union was founded in Chile in 2009,.
We should discuss the remarkable election of Gabriel Boric to the presidency of Chile and what a direct rejection of neoliberalism that really is. Moreover, Boric was a grassroots activist..
We need to note the passing of one of the heroes of modern times: Juan Guzmán Tapia, a Chilean judge who was the first person to prosecute the country’s onetime military ruler, Augusto Pinochet, using novel legal strategies to hold him and members of his...
On December 21, 1907, the Chilean military massacred perhaps 2,000 striking nitrate miners, though possibly significantly more than that. The Santa Maria Massacre would go down as one of the.
I just finished reading Arturo Fontaine's remarkable novel La Vida Doble, a story of a Chilean underground fighter in the 1980s who gets captured and tortured and then totally turns.
It's well known how right-wing economists have long seen Chile as their personal playground to play out their fantasies of austerity politics backed by authoritarian violence. The Chicago Boys were the famed University of Chicago-trained economists who advised Augusto Pinochet during and after the 1973...
Will Bunch on the protests in Chile and how they were caused by the same U.S. style neoliberalism that has also helped unhinge this nation. In 2019, as an autumn.
On September 4, 1970, Salvador Allende won election as president of Chile, a moment of victory for the idea of a democratic socialist revolution, one that right-wing nations such as.