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...many credit Azru with bringing an end to the strife and attempting to forge a path for democracy in the Central American nation. After his election to the presidency in January 1996, Arzu continued negotiations with the Marxist guerrillas and led the way to a peace agreement in September...
Making Augusto Pinochet Ugarte a member of Chile's Senate [NOTEBOOK, March 23] is a cheap price to pay for the future complete normalization of Chilean democracy. In 1970 Salvador Allende was elected President, not by the people but by the Senate. Allende was a Marxist-Leninist, but presumably he believed that democracy was the preferred means for political and social change. Still, under Allende, there were severe violations of human rights, and political dissidents were put in jail simply for speaking the truth. Very few have the moral right to judge the Chilean transition process, and some observers...
...everything had continued the way it was in Chile under Allende and there had been no Pinochet, we Chileans would have been the victims of a national educational system aimed at training a future generation of Chilean communists according to Marxist rules. Our parents would not have been able to bring up their children according to their own principles and convictions. Without Pinochet, I would not be a Catholic, a believer in democracy or the free thinker that I am today. M. CRISTINA VALENZUELA DE DOMIC Sao Paulo...
...movie proceeds, taking time to linger with complex subsidiary characters, letting us absorb the detailed richness of its imagery, contextualizing its story in a broader social history (unlike most movies, it is aware of working-class unrest and Marxist attempts to organize it early in this century), two withering ironies are drawn. The first is that the father is one of those sad souls who can express love only by tormenting the object of his affection. The other is that his rationale for bad behavior--that he's building the boy's "character"--is not entirely wrong...
Before he became the general of the revolution, Lenin was its pedant, the journalist-scholar who married Marxist theory to an incisive analysis of insurrectionist tactics. His theories of what society ought to be and how that ideal must be achieved were the products of thousands of hours spent reading...