Opinion
Under the socialist Salvador Allende, the Chilean economy collapsed, resulting in a coup by Augusto Pinochet. This isn’t worth celebrating.
Sept. 10, 2020
Salvador Allende’s election as president of Chile still matters, especially now, as the United States faces a momentous election of its own.
Sept. 4, 2020
La Plaza
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Sept. 11, 2008
July 22, 2011
Sept. 12, 2007
The forgotten dead of the nations that ‘realpolitik’ devastated are still crying out for justice.
Nov. 30, 2023
Chile’s election this weekend could see an ultra-right-wing populist, who considers Gen. Augusto Pinochet his hero, become president.
Nov. 18, 2021
Technology and the Internet
Fifty years ago, a violent coup cut short one of the boldest tech experiments in history: the attempt to run the entire economy of Chile from a single computer.
Sept. 21, 2023
World & Nation
Hortensia Bussi, widow of former Chilean President Salvador Allende, dies at 94
June 19, 2009
The U.S. government must pay more than $146,000 in lawyers’ fees to the widow of Chilean President Salvador Allende because she was wrongly denied a visa to visit the United States six years ago, a federal judge in Boston ruled.
March 22, 1989