Tag: Chile
Great films, like great literature, please and teach. Wild Horse Nine is a bold, hilarious and heartbreaking ride, but it is also a “downbeat Western” that is aware enough of itself to teach us what it means to play with this style.
Like Sam Shepard’s True West, which John Malkovich...
John Malkovich and Sam Rockwell play CIA agents plotting coup on socialist Chilean leader Salvador Allende in Wild Horse Nine
In Martin McDonagh’s sophisticated political comedy and spy thriller Wild Horse Nine, set during the summer of 1973, undercover CIA agents Lee Chesterfield (Sam Rockwell) and Chris Carlisle (John Malkovich)...
While thousands of people languish in the ICE gulag under abhorrent conditions and are kidnapped off American streets and subject to deportation, a CIA-linked foreign terrorist is being given preferential treatment in a stark reflection of the double standard and corruption of the U.S. criminal justice system.
On July 16,...
The election of a Pinochet admirer as Chile’s new president shows that the evils she devoted her life to fighting have not been eradicated
The election of José Antonio Kast in Chile, an extreme right-wing admirer of fascist dictator Augusto Pinochet (1973-1990), has brought fears of a return to Chile’s...
The first round of Chile’s presidential election determined that center-left government candidate Jeannette Jara and far-right opposition leader José Antonio Kast will face off in the December 14 runoff. Although Jara won the first round with 26.75%—3,446,854 votes—against Kast’s 23.96%—3,086,963 votes—everything suggests that the right will win the second...
American embassy and CIA were complicit in their killings and the cover-up
On September 11, 1973, General Augusto Pinochet launched a fascist coup in Chile that deposed Salvador Allende, a democratically elected socialist who had nationalized Chile’s copper industry and enacted other measures designed to equalize wealth in Chile.
Supported by...
Black America has the term “Uncle Tom” for sellouts. In South America, a “vendepatria” is someone who is willing to sell their homeland to the highest bidder. Simón Bolívar, José Marti and Jan-Jak Dessalin conceived of a united, integrated Americas, or “la patria grande,” “the big fatherland;” and fought...
Fifty-one years ago, a bloody coup in Chile overthrew the democratically-elected president Salvadore Allende, leaving him dead. Sometimes now called “the other 9/11,” it ushered in the brutal dictatorship of Augusto Pinochet, which lasted for 17 years...
Just as the Israeli settler state is engaged in fierce warfare with Palestine’s Native people, director/co-writer Felipe Gálvez’s has produced a timely film called The Settlers, which offers an unsettling look at the colonization of Tierra del Fuego in Chile circa 1900.
The film features a British soldier Alexander MacLennan...
On the morning of September 21, 1976, a car bomb took the lives of Orlando Letelier, Minister of Foreign Relations and Ambassador to the U.S. under Chile’s socialist president Salvador Allende (1970-1973), and Ronni Karpen Moffitt, a 25-year-old fundraiser for the Institute for Policy Studies (IPS), a left-wing think-tank...
Radhika Desai is a Professor of Political Studies at the University of Manitoba, Winnepeg, Canada, Director of its Geopolitical Economy Research Group, and Convenor of the International Manifesto Group. Ms. Desai is an author of multiple books, including Geopolitical Economy(2013) and her most recent Capitalism, Coronavirus and War(2022). Ms. Desai hosts a fortnightly show, Geopolitical Economy Hour on the Geopolitical Economy Report website.
Yan Pan is a Chinese PhD researcher at LUT University, Finland. Her work examines the political economy of China’s technological and industrial development, with a particular focus on the industrialization and governance of neurotechnology in China. Her research concerns industrial policy models for future industries in Chinese and Global South contexts. Prior to her PhD, she researched educational reforms and structural change in labor demand in China.
Ken Hammond is professor emeritus of East Asian and Global History at New Mexico State University. He has lived and worked in China from time to time since 1982. A lifelong political activist, he is a member of the Party for Socialism and Liberation.