Word: chileanizing
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...just placed my order in a takeout pizzeria in the Chilean capital, early on a recent evening, when three young guys came in, checked the place out, and drew guns. One stuck a revolver between my ribs and made me empty my pockets, another did the same to a fellow customer, and the third shouted at the woman behind the counter to open the register. She mumbled that she couldn't, or that there was no money. His friends had already left, so he turned and ran after them...
...over pretty quickly and it could have been worse. And, of course, it's the kind of thing that happens every day in every big city in the world. Still, as I've recounted my experience to Chilean friends, I've been struck by their response: Rather than a commonplace experience, they regard it as a depressing sign of changing times - an indication that Santiago, long regarded as the safest capital city in Latin America, has a growing crime problem...
Dining on Chilean empanadas, a group of students discussed the presidential candidates’ differing visions of Latin American relations last night, as part of the “Diálogo Latinoamericano” discussion series...
...Chilean President Michelle Bachelet emphasized that the success of democracy in Latin America is contingent on the involvement and equality of citizens, in a speech at the Institute of Politics last night. According to Bachelet, who was elected Chile’s first female president in 2006, democracy in Latin America has reached a point where its implementation is no longer on everyone’s minds, making the system vulnerable to an increase in apathy and institutional distrust among citizens. “What I mean is not that I am a pessimist, but we have...
...Augusto Pinochet, the former Chilean dictator, made a mockery of his 1998 indictment by a Spanish judge for the kidnapping, torture and killing of more than 3,000 people. But when Chile refused to grant him immunity, Pinochet spent the remaining years of his life being wheeled into and out of court; after he died in December 2006, the government refused to host a state funeral or declare a national day of mourning. Charles Taylor, the former Liberian President, was indicted in 2003 for savage crimes carried out in Sierra Leone - including the arming and training of the child soldiers...