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Chile at the crossroads

A dramatic shift to the extreme right threatens the future—and past—for human rights and accountability. This past Monday morning, Chileans awoke to a new reality. Some 35 years after the return to ...
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Pinochet’s prisoners were tormented with music but still found solace in it, a new book reveals

UNDER STRICT EMBARGO UNTIL 19:01 US (ET) ON THURSDAY 18 TH DECEMBER 2025 / 00:01AM (UK TIME ON FRIDAY 19 TH DECEMBER 2025 110 years after Augusto Pinochet’s birth, Chile has just elected a new ...
WLRN

Chile elects most right-wing leader since Pinochet – in line with domestic tendency to punish incumbents

This article is republished from The Conversation, an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts. Andra B. Chastain is an Associate Professor of History at ...
Digital Journal

Twenty-five years on, Pinochet’s legacy still haunts Chile

Twenty-five years after Chile's return to democracy, glorifying Augusto Pinochet has finally become taboo, but the country is still fighting to erase the social and political legacy of his ...
The New York Times

Book Review: ‘38 Londres Street,’ by Philippe Sands

Philippe Sands considers the case of the dictator Augusto Pinochet, who eluded efforts to bring him to account for state-sponsored terror in Chile. Nonfiction ...
The Economist

The friendship of a Chilean dictator and a Nazi war criminal

38 Londres Street: On Impunity, Pinochet in England and a Nazi in Patagonia. By Philippe Sands. Knopf; 480 pages; $35. W&N; £25 THE TWO men had a lot in common. They shared an affinity for German ...
The Conversation

Getting away with it … sort of. How a dictator and a fugitive Nazi advanced international human rights law

Pinochet and Rauff? They were alike. Each had two faces. One gentle, the other hard. They were joined. And they both got away with it … Sort of. Philippe Sands loves to tell stories. A master of ...