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Such a focus poses a threat to Chilean stability and democracy in the long run. Though it might be tempting to think of Pinochet’s death as symbolizing the end of an era for military dictatorships in Latin America (after all, Castro is on his way out, too), the region has yet to wrestle with its past. Only after doing so will it be able to bury its dictators for good...
...regularly denounced Pinochet’s torture and execution of his political opponents, yet the same organizations often overlook Cuba’s then routine torture of tens of thousands of its dissidents. Not to mention the atrocities committed in the Stalinist Soviet Union, Maoist China, or other socialist Latin American governments. It is important to remember that communism can be very dangerous—especially in South America, where communist revolutionaries were often backed by naïve electorates and armies of loyal guerilla fighters. Compared to other South American dictatorships—and many communist states worldwide?...
Assistant Professor of Romance Languages and Literatures Mariano Siskind, whose specialities include 20th century Latin American literature, said Borges would have liked the mystery surrounding the manuscripts’ disappearance...
...track of it. Interest was rekindled four years ago when many Catholics streamed into Rome for Christianity's millennium and were disappointed to find no relic of the Saint. Two years later the archaelogists began digging, and this year they uncovered the sarcophagus and a protective slab inscribed in latin saying "To Paul, Apostle and Martyr." They were heartened by the presence of three holes in it (now stopped up with plaster) through which ancient pilgrims would have put cloths to come in contact with an object of veneration...
...about the authority of the Church. The white marble, says Professor James Strange, an archaelogist at the University of South Florida "immediately tells you that this was a self-conscious, elaborate ritual burial" of a sort that the church at Paul's time would not have been capable. The Latin inscription, says Bard College's Bruce Chilton, author of a book about Paul, does not reflect Paul's Roman Christian community, which would have written it in Greek...