A Chilean artist shaped by the nightmare of Pinochet subverts colonial time. Review: Alfredo Jaar: Decolonial Time and the Aesthetics of the Unfinished, Florencia San Martín, 2026, Duke University Press
Categories: Chile
Radical remembrance
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Tag: Pinochet
Melodies of resistance
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Music was a tool of survival for victims of Chile’s dictatorship. Review: Music and Political Imprisonment in Pinochet’s Chile, Katia Chornik, 2025, Oxford University Press
Categories: Chile
Chile’s nightmare returns
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Kast’s election open the country’s sores. Review: Tales from the Sharp End: A Portrait of Chile, Natascha Scott-Stokes, 2024, University of New Mexico Press
Categories: Chile
Unity written in blood and ink
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Cecilia Vicuña’s ‘Saborami’ was an iconic artistic statement of resistance to the 1973 Chilean coup that has now been reproduced. Georgina Jiménez interviewed her
Framing a free spirit
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The Good Don’t Use Umbrellas, Asel Luzarraga, 2023, Active Distribution
A test of time
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The Suicide Museum, Ariel Dorfman, 2023, Other Press
Categories: Chile, South America
Citizens rising
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Mobilizing at the Urban Margins: Citizenship and Patronage Politics in Post-Dictatorial Chile, Simón Escoffier, 2023, Cambridge University Press
Legacies of 1973
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As the world remembers the brutal coup against Salvador Allende in Chile 50 years ago today, Gavin O’Toole considers its complex legacies
Categories: Chile, North America, South America, United States
A coup against us all
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An experiment in agony
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The Chile Project: The Story of the Chicago Boys and the Downfall of Neoliberalism, Sebastian Edwards, 2023, Princeton University Press
Categories: Chile, North America, South America, United States