Chile

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

  • Chile's Old Testament economics

    Thanks to playing it safe and stingy when times were good, the copper king of South America is riding out the current turmoil better than its neighbors.
    By Andrew Leonard April 24, 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

  • 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

  • Pinochet: does death cheat justice?

    Former dictator lived long life.
    By David Puner December 11, 2006

  • What else we're reading

    Western publishers veil Muslim women, a girl gang rocks Chile, a New York doctor plots the nation's first womb transplant and more.
    By Chris Colin November 10, 2006

  • Court challenge halts Chile's progressive Plan B plans

    So close, yet so far -- President Bachelet's decision to make emergency contraception available to all is temporarily stymied by a Santiago appeals court.
    By Page Rockwell September 14, 2006

  • Destination: Chile

    The crazy character of this wondrous land shines in the poems of Pablo Neruda, while its strife under Pinochet is captured best by José Donoso and Patricia Verdugo
    By Ariel Dorfman August 21, 2006

  • An atheist and divorced single mom for president of Chile?

    Michelle Bachelet, a socialist, is the frontrunner in the Catholic country's upcoming election.
    By Juliana Bunim December 9, 2005

  • The ugly American

    President Bush's clash with Chilean security police may confirm world opinion that he's a boor, but his chest-thumping supporters love it.
    By Norman Birnbaum November 23, 2004

  • Get over it

    In his meeting with Chilean President Lagos, Bush should show some maturity by forgiving a country that refused to send troops to Iraq; restoring U.S. credibility in Latin America requires it.
    By Arturo Valenzuela July 19, 2004

  • Countdown to war vote

    A tough new resolution offered by British Prime Minister Tony Blair puts Saddam on the spot -- and it appears to swing momentum to the hawks.
    By Eric Boehlert March 13, 2003

  • Coalition of the billing -- or unwilling?

    The Bush administration is lavishing billions of dollars on potential allies at the U.N. Strangely, it isn't working.
    By Laura McClure March 12, 2003

  • Isabel Allende

    Her books don't get edited, she says Latin lovers make lousy husbands and her daughter's pornographic letters are a great read.
    By Kaitlin Quistgaard March 5, 2001

  • Cafes ... with legs

    In conservative Santiago, Chile, an uncharacteristically leggy trend has slipped into the puritanical mix.
    By Felipe Ossa May 5, 2000

  • No pain, no pleasure

    For exhibitors and tasters at the annual Fiery Foods Show, merely tongue-numbing is sissy stuff.
    By S. Forester Hayes March 17, 2000

  • Seductive seafood

    Spicy, tangy and oozing, cebiche makes a great aphrodisiac. At least that's what Jorge whispered to me, across the table from my parents.
    By Michele Back February 25, 2000

  • Chilean actress resides in glass house for all to see

    Crowds line up to watch Santiago woman live.
    By J.A. Getzlaff February 2, 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

  • Letters to the Editor

    Keep the morning-after pill away from our daughters! Plus: Buffy" fans strike back; McCain is the perfect "anti-Clinton."
    Letters to the Editor December 13, 1999

  • The agony and the ecotourism

    Two progressive resorts in Chile exemplify the baby-boomer shift from bare-bones backpacking to pampered adventure.
    By Katherine Ellison December 4, 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

  • 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

  • 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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