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Fernando Botero’s paintings of torture at Abu Ghraib prison

by George Allen Santiago’s Museo de la Memoria y los Derechos Humanos is a block long rectangular concrete and glass building outside of the sprawling Quinto Normal Park. The front entrance of the museum is [...]

Student movement isn’t going away soon

by George Allen On the same day students protested across the United States for “1 T Day“–the day US student debt will hit one trillion dollars–Chilean students officially inaugurated the new school year with mass [...]

Ricardo’s Lagos “Southern Tiger”

by Walker Rowe Ricardo Lagos, former President of Chile, has written a book with the assistance of two writers from Foreign Affairs magazine and includes an introduction by Bill Clinton. While the title of the [...]

Abortion in Chile

By George Allen Abortion in Chile Last week Republican Presidential candidates and their counterparts in Congress launched attacks on the Obama administration’s health care plan, arguing it would fund abortion. The plan requires all hospitals, [...]

Virgin Mobile cellular comes to Chile

Editors update 12 April 2012: Virgin Mobile opened up its web site in Chile this week. That same day I ordered a SIM card from the web site. It the came in the mail two days [...]

Jazz along the Mapocho

by George Allen For three days last week, jazz musicians from around the world performed in a sculpture park alongside the Mapocho river for the 11th annual Providencia Jazz Festival in Santiago, Chile. In the past, [...]

Could the Mexican War on Drugs Spread to Chile?

Here in Chile HBO is showing a new made-in-Chile production called “Profúgos” ( meaning “fugitives”). The opening episode showed a gun battle between this group of narcotraficantes and the PDI police in the port of Valparaiso. [...]

What does it mean to be Hispanic and why the Americans have got it Wrong

The Tea Party Republicans plan to make an issue of immigration in the upcoming presidential election as they have done in the past. They decry the surge of what the Americans call “Hispanic” immigrants. I would [...]

Student Protests in Chile

Photo Credit ©Aliosha Marquez Alvear Could The Chilean Winter become the Praque Spring?I have yet to see mention of the student protests here in Chile in an American or British newspaper or magazine with an article [...]

Women’s Soccer in America : No Big Deal in Chile

When I was in school my parents each summer would pack me and my brother off to summer camp in part because my mother worked. One year I broke my arm so could not accompany my [...]

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