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General Augusto Pinochet picked a symbolically apt moment to die. The former Chilean dictator succumbed Sunday at age 91 after suffering a massive coronary earlier this month while finally awaiting trial for the murders and torture that terrorized Chile in the wake of his 1973, U.S.-backed military coup. His passing comes near the end of a year in which the leftist political forces he worked so violently to expunge have swept back into power in presidential elections all over Latin America - including Chile, where socialist Michele Bachelet now rules. As a result, pundits from Mexico City to Buenos Aires...
...prices affordable, but when asked if he would be back, he responded after a long stare at his empty plate: “I don’t like American food.” He’s from Chile. Salaverria later engaged in a conversation with the Chilean visitor, who added a dash of foreign flavor to the International House. Salaverria explained that the franchise is very popular in America. More than 1,200 branches have opened across this country and Canada since 1958. As four Harvard juniors walked into the restaurant, two IHOP employees greeted them with jokes...
...officials have long feared that legal proceedings against "war criminals" could be used to settle political scores. In 1998, for example, former Chilean dictator Augusto Pinochet - whose military coup was supported by the Nixon administration - was arrested in the U.K. and held for 16 months in an extradition battle led by a Spanish magistrate seeking to charge him with war crimes. He was ultimately released and returned to Chile. More recently, a Belgian court tried to bring charges against then Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon for alleged crimes against Palestinians...
...Latin American fellow at Harvard.“We began conversations, and I mentioned to Pedro a reference to Antanas Mockus who was currently teaching at Harvard a class on Hedonism and Pragmatism,” says Sommer.Mockus—along with Brazilian theater innovator Augusto Boal and Chilean filmmaker Alejandro Jodorowsky—became a major inspiration for Reyes as both he and Sommer continued to rethink the societal issues facing the world of contemporary art. “It was a unique opportunity,” says Reyes of his experience at Harvard, “because...
They may have seemed vaguely exotic a decade ago, but these days we take for granted the presence of Chilean and Argentine wines on supermarket shelves. Can any other South American wine-producing country achieve that level of international acceptance, and if so, which one? The answer may be Uruguay. The reason is that the country has a niche virtually all to itself, and that's Tannat?an obscure grape originally grown in southwestern France, and brought to Uruguay in 1870. If you're a winemaker, having a little-known but delicious varietal up your sleeve is no bad thing...