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That Pinochet overthrew a democratically-elected government with CIA backing is common knowledge. What is often omitted from the news is that the government of Salvador Allende—which he deposed—came to power in 1970 with Soviet financing and a mere 36 percent electoral plurality, amid allegations of massive voter fraud that would later prove true. Allende turned Chile’s economy on its head, putting thousands out of work and home and expropriating the assets of the poorest of Chileans, who were left to stand starving in Soviet-style bread queues. Bands of revolutionary...
...Pinochet's supporters, who still make up about half of Chilean society, insist the moustached dictator was himself a product of Latin America's other notorious extreme: intolerant leftism. Their point is at least half valid. Salvador Allende, the left-wing Chilean President whom the military ousted and probably killed, hardly shared Pinochet's bloodlust; but his government had indeed run Marxist-amuck by 1973. The economy was in state-run free fall and radical but influential leftist groups were calling for (if not already trying to carry out) an armed shift to Cuba-style communism. Pinochet always asserted that...
...shed much light on his works. Instead, Bunuel provides readers with a kaleidoscope rendition of the bohemian world of the 20th century’s great artistic minds. He freely mixes fact with fiction as he touches upon everything from art to politics. Bunuel mentions how figures like Salvador Dali, Pablo Picasso, and Charlie Chaplin dressed, drank, and behaved at orgies. The charm of “My Last Sigh” comes from the fiction, as well as the credibility and renown of Bunuel’s friends and foes...
...much farther in the hole. It is impossible to know whether these measures will be cheaper in the future. Does this all mean that the Undergraduate Council should not have a question about climate change on its ballot? Of course not. STEPHEN J. QUINLAN ’04 El Salvador Nov. 15, 2006 The writer was co-chair of the Environmental Action Committee...
...communication barrier is what’s preventing lots of Latinos from different communities from exercising the political clout commensurate with their numbers,” said Dems Political Director Raquel O. Alvarenga ’07, who is the first person in her immigrant family from El Salvador born...