Chile - Salon.com http://dir.salon.com/topics/chile/?source=rss&aim=chile en-us Copyright 2007 Salon.com. Wed, 11 Jun 2008 03:06:00 PDT My Paulina, my country By Ariel Dorfman Wed, 11 Jun 2008 03:06:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/ent/feature/2008/06/11/dorfman/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/ent/feature/2008/06/11/dorfman/index.html?source=rss 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. Disco dancin' with the dictator By Andrew O'Hehir Wed, 11 Jun 2008 03:06:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/ent/movies/btm/feature/2009/07/03/tony_manero/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/ent/movies/btm/feature/2009/07/03/tony_manero/index.html?source=rss And also killing people. The Pinochet-era ultra-dark comedy "Tony Manero" is the feel-bad movie of the year Chile's Old Testament economics By Andrew Leonard Wed, 11 Jun 2008 03:06:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/tech/htww/2009/04/24/seven_years_of_fat/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/tech/htww/2009/04/24/seven_years_of_fat/index.html?source=rss 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. Blood on the beach By Andrew O'Hehir Wed, 11 Jun 2008 03:06:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/ent/movies/btm/feature/2008/05/19/cannes_5/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/ent/movies/btm/feature/2008/05/19/cannes_5/index.html?source=rss 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. Farewell to a torturer in chief By Marc Cooper Wed, 11 Jun 2008 03:06:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/opinion/feature/2006/12/11/pinochet/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/opinion/feature/2006/12/11/pinochet/index.html?source=rss 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. Pinochet: does death cheat justice? By David Puner Wed, 11 Jun 2008 03:06:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/ent/video_dog/media/2006/12/11/pinochet_dead/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/ent/video_dog/media/2006/12/11/pinochet_dead/index.html?source=rss Former dictator lived long life. What else we're reading By Chris Colin Wed, 11 Jun 2008 03:06:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/mwt/broadsheet/2006/11/10/what_else/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/mwt/broadsheet/2006/11/10/what_else/index.html?source=rss Western publishers veil Muslim women, a girl gang rocks Chile, a New York doctor plots the nation's first womb transplant and more. Court challenge halts Chile's progressive Plan B plans By Page Rockwell Wed, 11 Jun 2008 03:06:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/mwt/broadsheet/2006/09/14/chile/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/mwt/broadsheet/2006/09/14/chile/index.html?source=rss So close, yet so far -- President Bachelet's decision to make emergency contraception available to all is temporarily stymied by a Santiago appeals court. Destination: Chile By Ariel Dorfman Wed, 11 Jun 2008 03:06:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/books/literary_guide/2006/08/21/chile/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/books/literary_guide/2006/08/21/chile/index.html?source=rss 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 An atheist and divorced single mom for president of Chile? By Juliana Bunim Wed, 11 Jun 2008 03:06:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/mwt/broadsheet/2005/12/09/president/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/mwt/broadsheet/2005/12/09/president/index.html?source=rss Michelle Bachelet, a socialist, is the frontrunner in the Catholic country's upcoming election. The ugly American By Norman Birnbaum Wed, 11 Jun 2008 03:06:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/opinion/feature/2004/11/23/chile/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/opinion/feature/2004/11/23/chile/index.html?source=rss President Bush's clash with Chilean security police may confirm world opinion that he's a boor, but his chest-thumping supporters love it. Get over it By Arturo Valenzuela Wed, 11 Jun 2008 03:06:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/opinion/feature/2004/07/19/chile/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/opinion/feature/2004/07/19/chile/index.html?source=rss 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. Countdown to war vote By Eric Boehlert Wed, 11 Jun 2008 03:06:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/news/feature/2003/03/13/resolution/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/news/feature/2003/03/13/resolution/index.html?source=rss 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. Coalition of the billing -- or unwilling? By Laura McClure Wed, 11 Jun 2008 03:06:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/news/feature/2003/03/12/foreign_aid/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/news/feature/2003/03/12/foreign_aid/index.html?source=rss The Bush administration is lavishing billions of dollars on potential allies at the U.N. Strangely, it isn't working. Isabel Allende By Kaitlin Quistgaard Wed, 11 Jun 2008 03:06:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/people/conv/2001/03/05/allende/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/people/conv/2001/03/05/allende/index.html?source=rss Her books don't get edited, she says Latin lovers make lousy husbands and her daughter's pornographic letters are a great read. Cafes ... with legs By Felipe Ossa Wed, 11 Jun 2008 03:06:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/travel/wlust/2000/05/05/piernas/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/travel/wlust/2000/05/05/piernas/index.html?source=rss In conservative Santiago, Chile, an uncharacteristically leggy trend has slipped into the puritanical mix. No pain, no pleasure By S. Forester Hayes Wed, 11 Jun 2008 03:06:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/travel/food/feature/2000/03/17/hot/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/travel/food/feature/2000/03/17/hot/index.html?source=rss For exhibitors and tasters at the annual Fiery Foods Show, merely tongue-numbing is sissy stuff. Seductive seafood By Michele Back Wed, 11 Jun 2008 03:06:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/travel/wlust/2000/02/25/cebiche/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/travel/wlust/2000/02/25/cebiche/index.html?source=rss Spicy, tangy and oozing, cebiche makes a great aphrodisiac. At least that's what Jorge whispered to me, across the table from my parents. Chilean actress resides in glass house for all to see By J.A. Getzlaff Wed, 11 Jun 2008 03:06:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/travel/planet/2000/02/02/chile/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/travel/planet/2000/02/02/chile/index.html?source=rss Crowds line up to watch Santiago woman live. The woman without a country By Alejandra Matus Wed, 11 Jun 2008 03:06:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/news/feature/2000/01/04/chile/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/news/feature/2000/01/04/chile/index.html?source=rss 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? Letters to the Editor Letters to the Editor Wed, 11 Jun 2008 03:06:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/letters/1999/12/13/france/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/letters/1999/12/13/france/index.html?source=rss Keep the morning-after pill away from our daughters! Plus: Buffy" fans strike back; McCain is the perfect "anti-Clinton." The agony and the ecotourism By Katherine Ellison Wed, 11 Jun 2008 03:06:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/travel/feature/1999/12/04/ecotourism/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/travel/feature/1999/12/04/ecotourism/index.html?source=rss Two progressive resorts in Chile exemplify the baby-boomer shift from bare-bones backpacking to pampered adventure. The end of a nightmare By Itay Hod Wed, 11 Jun 2008 03:06:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/news/feature/1999/10/19/horman/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/news/feature/1999/10/19/horman/index.html?source=rss 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. Dictator of choice By David Horowitz Wed, 11 Jun 2008 03:06:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/news/col/horo/1998/11/23/nc_23horo/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/news/col/horo/1998/11/23/nc_23horo/index.html?source=rss Looking back now, we can see that Pinochet was good for Chile, whereas another dictator, Castro, is bad for his country. No place to hide By Bruce Shapiro Wed, 11 Jun 2008 03:06:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/news/feature/1998/10/21/news/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/news/feature/1998/10/21/news/index.html?source=rss 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.