Augusto Pinochet

My Paulina, my country My Paulina, my country

During the making of a film about my exile from Chile, I finally met the anonymous woman who saved my life during Pinochet's murderous reign.
By Ariel Dorfman Jun 11, 2008

  • Disco dancin' with the dictator

    And also killing people. The Pinochet-era ultra-dark comedy "Tony Manero" is the feel-bad movie of the year
    By Andrew O'Hehir July 3, 2009

  • Blood on the beach

    From a dizzying reinvention of the Mafia film to Tony Manero as serial killer to the death of Bobby Sands, it's a violent spring at Cannes.
    By Andrew O'Hehir May 19, 2008

  • America's trinity of terrorism

    The network of U.S.-sponsored terrorism now on global display relies on death squads, disappearances and torture.
    By Greg Grandin December 14, 2007

  • Mugged by reality

    Once the warrior queen of neoconservatism, Jeane Kirkpatrick died a critic of Bush's unilateralism. Her death illuminates the conflicting legacies of the movement she helped found.
    By Sidney Blumenthal December 14, 2006

  • Farewell to a torturer in chief

    A former associate of Allende's remembers Pinochet -- and wonders what's in store for the North American enablers who are now under international scrutiny.
    By Marc Cooper December 11, 2006

  • The man without a country

    How Vladimiro Montesinos' old nemesis helped force the former Peruvian spy chief out of comfortable exile in Panama -- and could compel him to face trial at home.
    By Mark Schapiro November 7, 2000

  • The woman without a country

    Chile's government would like the world to believe its justice system is fair and democratic. Why then has it suppressed a book exposing widespread corruption in that system and forced its author into exile in Miami?
    By Alejandra Matus January 4, 2000

  • Body count

    In his controversial -- and frightening -- new bestseller, Pat Buchanan argues for a mighty America built upon the corpses of the weak.
    By Charles Taylor October 22, 1999

  • The end of a nightmare

    After her husband was killed in Chile's bloody coup, Joyce Horman thought the only justice would come from telling her story. Now she has reason to hope those responsible will be forced to face the truth.
    By Itay Hod October 19, 1999

  • Social absurdity

    The push to entrust the rapacious financial industry with our Social Security money is being led by a former advisor to murderous Chilean dictator Augusto Pinochet.
    By Ian Williams July 20, 1999

  • Gentleman's agreement

    A bipartisan agreement lets Clinton evade comment and action on the fate of Chilean dictator Augusto Pinochet.
    By Christopher Hitchens December 8, 1998

  • The ghosts of bombings past

    New files about an assassination in Washington, D.C.
    By Jeff Stein December 3, 1998

  • Dictator of choice

    Looking back now, we can see that Pinochet was good for Chile, whereas another dictator, Castro, is bad for his country.
    By David Horowitz November 23, 1998

  • He can't go home again

    No matter what the House of Lords decides, former Chilean dictator Augusto Pinochet is finally facing the world's judgment for his murder of President Salvador Allende.
    By Marc Cooper November 12, 1998

  • No place to hide

    The arrest of the brutal ex-dictator Pinochet marks the first time since Nuremberg that a head of state faces legal responsibility for his mass killings.
    By Bruce Shapiro October 21, 1998
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