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Chile in the time of Cholera
Many will have read Gabriel Garcia Marquez’s book ‘Love in the time of Cholera’; a story of unrequited love in a crumbling Spanish colonial country set in an unfixed place within South America. Where Marquez and Chile come together is in 1985 (the same year ‘Love in the time of Cholera’ was published) when he wrote ‘Clandestine in Chile’; an account of exiled documentary film-maker Miguel Littin’s under-cover journey through Chile in the same year. Calama - As many early 20th
Jul 29, 20254 min read


38 Londres Street
Metal traders know about Chile's copper exports - but how much do they know about Pinochet's murderous regime? The torture and disappearances assisted by Nazi SS officer Walther Rauff designer of the vans used or killing Jews with carbon monoxide in WW2. Now via refrigerated vans to transport political prisoners silently around the country, to places of torture and incineration. Sands explains why Pinochet's arrest in London by petition of Spain does not result in his extradi
May 9, 20255 min read


How it was in 1983
About the women pickets in Arizona during the 1983 Phelps Dodge copper strike. Review of Barbara Kingsolver's book 'Holding the Line'
Nov 12, 20245 min read


To be, or not to be, an agent
His entire family from the east of Poland had been murdered by the Russians in the 1940s. That was except for his mother and father who...
Mar 8, 20244 min read
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