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...Chile almost half the citizenry still revere Pinochet as a strong leader who saved the nation from economic and political collapse after his bloody U.S.-backed 1973 coup, in which leftist President Salvador Allende was killed. Since becoming a Senator, he has tried to project a more benign, grandfatherly image. But in countries like the U.S., where Pinochet assassins executed one of his exiled opponents in 1976, he's unlikely to get much sympathy. "The international community is sending a very positive signal for democracy and human rights," says Palma. Retired Chilean army General Luis Cortes Villa, head...
Pinochet held power in Chile for 17 years after effecting a coup of Salvador Allende's Marxist government on Sept. 11, 1973. Thousands of people died and disappeared during Pinochet's rule...
Felipe B. Larrain, director of the CentralAmerican Project at HIID, is currently advisingthe governments of Colombia, Costa Rica, Ecuador,El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Nicaragua andChile on macroeconomic policy...
...north of Rio, the city of Salvador da Bahia, which will be celebrating its 450th birthday, promises to have the country's most sizzling street party. For the Bom Jesus dos Navegantes celebration, which honors sailors, thousands of boats with banners aflutter will fill the harbor. Along the ancient cobblestone avenues and more modern thoroughfares, trios eletricos, samba-reggae bands on trucks with eardrum-shattering loudspeakers, will play. Barefoot, bare-chested youths in white cotton trousers will perform the traditional capoeira, a carefully choreographed martial art dating back to slavery that combines somersaults and kickboxing and prohibits contact with...
...resolutions and letters circulate condemning the conflicts in Colombia and Mexico and call for peace. If the U.S. is willing to aid any country militarily, it must also be prepared to become involved in the wars recipient countries are fighting. With recent comparisons to the U.S. involvement in El Salvador in the 1980s and even to Vietnam, recognition of the role we play in these conflicts is not forthcoming...