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Santiago Chile?s armed forces admitted for the first time in 27 years that they executed about 150 political dissidents after General Augusto Pinochet Ugarte overthrew Salvador Allende Gossens? Marxist government in 1973, and then dumped the bodies into the Pacific Ocean, lakes and rivers. They also acknowledged that another 50 people were buried in clandestine graves throughout the country. The armed forces agreed in mid-1999 to produce information on the fate of more than 1,000 ?detained-disappeared,? provided that they wouldn?t be prosecuted; despite a wide campaign for information, however, about 800 people still remain unaccounted...
...Fonte identifies the opposing armies in the war as Gramscians and Tocquevillians. The Gramscians take their name from the 20th-century Marxist intellectual and politician Antonio Gramsci (1891-1937). As Fonte remarks: "Despite [Gramsci's] enormous influence on today's politics, he remains far less well-known to most Americans than does Tocqueville," the prescient young French visitor who figured out America so brilliantly a hundred years before Gramsci's death...
...Ginger says she does not know whether her husband was a member of the Communist Party, though she says both of them were active in left-wing causes and attended Marxist study groups and, occasionally, Communist Party meetings...
...Molina (Stefan Atkinson '03) and Valentin (Stephen Toub '01), two men trapped in an Argentine prison. Molina, a gay window-dresser serving time for corrupting a minor, sits alone in his dark prison cell avoiding further torment from the warden and his frighteningly faithful guards when Valentin, a Marxist revolutionary, is thrust inside the room. Although Molina nurses his fellow prisoner back to health, their relationship becomes anything but friendly: Valentin, a suspected conspirator, wants nothing to do with the "dizzy," chattering Molina. But as this tale unfolds, the cellmates come to learn the importance of friendship in this horrific...
...served two more separate terms during her turbulent and somewhat patchy political career, resigning from her last post in August. She may have been the first national leader to address the world as "a woman and a mother," but she could be ruthless: her hamhanded suppression of a Marxist insurrection in 1971 resulted in 20,000 casualties. Bandaranaike had a heart attack in a car on her way home from voting in the elections won by the party led by her daughter, President Chandrika Kumaratunga...