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Once Allende was overthrown, Kissinger became the leading enabler of Pinochet's repressive new regime. FEATURES AS HENRY KISSINGER REACHES 100 YEARS OF AGE ON May 27, Chileans are preparing to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the bloody military coup that the former US national security adviser helped orchestrate in September 1973. The declassified historical record leaves no doubt that Kissinger was the chief architect of US efforts to destabilize the democratically elected government of Socialist Party leader Salvador Allende. [Extracted from the article]

The article focuses on a raid conducted by thirty Chilean secret-police agents on an apartment in Santiago where, for the previous few months, a loose coalition of democratic socialist parties known as the Bloque Socialista, or Socialist Bloc, had been meeting. In similar raids all over Santiago, dozens of dissidents were being rounded up and interrogated. The raiders were not only interested in the opposition leaders, they had also come for the booty. They stole the typewriters, the telephone, the furniture, the lamps, even the toilet paper and anything that could be converted into cash.

Focuses on press coverage of political developments in Chile by mass media in the U.S. Omission of important questions in press reporting on Chile President, Salvador Allende's speech at United Nations on December 9, 1972 by the press; Discussion on corporation-induced embargoes against small countries in the newspaper "Journal"; Lack of coverage of social and economic statistics of Chile, in the U.S. newspapers.

Discusses Chile under President Ricardo Lagos and the decision of Judge Juan Guzman to prosecute Gen. Augusto Pinochet. Public reaction to the indictment of Pinochet and his regime's Operation Condor, a consortium of secret police agencies which led state-sponsored terrorism in the 1970s; Efforts to redress human rights crimes; Background on the National Commission on Political Imprisonment and Torture, or Valech Commission, and its report on documented cases; The debate over public and military accountability for repression during the Pinochet era; How Commander in Chief Gen. Juan Emilio Cheyre pre-empted the Valech Commission report; Criticism of the Supreme Court; Outlook for prosecution of the Condor perpetrators by Chile's tribunals and the imprisonment of former DINA director Manuel Contreras.

The article focuses on the book "Chile: A Geographic Extravaganza," by the author Benjamin Subercaseaux and translated by Angel Flores. In this crazy geography, as a literal translation of the original Spanish title of this book would have it, one of the best known of Chile's young writers gives us a penetrating description of his country and his countrymen. The translation is ably done, although it might perhaps be mentioned that kilometers do not make so much sense to a northern eye as miles. It is a pity that somebody did not take a hint from the title of one of the chapters, "Wherein a Good Map Is Needed to Find Out Where You Are," for after going through a maze of names of places not mentioned on the highly decorative but quite inadequate map on the first end paper, or indeed in most atlases, the reader is liable to find himself in doubt as to his whereabouts.

A short telegram in the morning papers of July 4, positively telling of the destruction of Spanish fleet, at once changed gloom to joy and created for the day a patriotic climax of an extraordinary kind. The victory seems incredibly complete. The comparative inefficiency of the Spanish navy does not detract from the credit due the Americans, if it does go far to explain the amazing one-sidedness of the battle. The destruction of Spanish fleet accomplishes the main purpose of the U.S. military and naval operations in Santiago, Chile, and leaves the Spanish forces in the island of Cuba isolated.

This article focuses on socio-political conditions of Chile. If any further proof were needed of the apathy with which people in the U.S. regard affairs in South America, it might be found in the almost unanimous indifference toward recent events in Chile. Two military coups d'etat within five months, involving the eclipse of the patrician class until then in the ascendancy, the exile and triumphal return of a president, and the promulgation of a new body of laws and civil guaranties, these were only the beginning.

The article looks at politics and government in Chile, on the occasion of the 40th anniversary of the military coup against Chilean President Salvador Allende and of the country's upcoming November 2013 national election. It cites the major candidates in the election, Evelyn Matthei and Michelle Bachelet, daughters of a general who took part in the coup and ensuing military junta and a general who was killed by the junta, respectively. Topics include neoliberal economic policies in the country.

The article comments on some political and social issues related to the U.S. The unresolved issue of the recently retired army commander and former president-dictator of Chile, Augusto Pinochet's involvement in an act of international terrorism on U.S. soil still hangs over U.S. Chilean relations. A recent poll by a research center in the United States found that support for the North Atlantic Treaty Organization expansion dropped from 63 percent to 49 percent between September and March. This public unease in the United States is reflected in the U.S. Senate, where eleven members are against expansion outright, with about two dozen members more undecided.

The author of the article reports on the socio-economic developments in Chile. Chile hardly holds the patent on a pullback from politics, a reflex now rampant from Peoria to Poland. But few countries in recent decades have traveled quite the distance backward that Chile has. Chile is a case of rapid growth with little development-growth concentrated in the export of natural resources. Neither a solid middle class nor a well-paid working class has emerged. In the past, Chile suffered from a chronic job shortage, and the poor subsisted on a network of welfare and social solidarity. The new economy has dismantled welfare and dismembered community aid while at the same time making low-wage jobs plentiful.

This article presents the authors account of the political scenario in Chile with regard to the treatment being meted out to the relegados or internal exiles. With regard to the above mentioned issue, the author opines that a strategy of limited confrontation might have been helpful sometimes back to diffuse the situation in Chile with regard to the status of relegados. But now, with the repression so widespread, it could be inadequate. On being asked by the author, a relegado replied that all the internal exiles who are spread across Chile would escape on a predetermined day to avoid the state of siege which will be supposedly effective from February. Moreover, the relegado stated that in case of the proposed siege they will refuse to accept the government's orders.

Discusses the writings of Chilean writers living in exile in Latin America, the United States and Europe. Inclusion of Ariel Dorfman's novel on the Chilean revolution, titled 'Moros en la Costa'; Antonio Skarmeta's authorship of 'Sone que la Nieve Ardia'; Hernán Valdés' writing of the memoir 'Tejas Verdes'; Fernando Alegría's publication of 'El Paso de los Gansos.'

Focuses on the economic policy in Chile. Connection between economic policy and sociopolitical setting; Basic principles of the economic model; Introduction of the Chicago school of economics; Liberalization of the international market; Causes and control of inflation.

Presents several editorials which discuss different subjects. "But Who Will Pardon Ford?" which discussed U.S. President Gerald Ford's decision to pardon former U.S. President Richard Nixon; "Organization Upset in New York," which discussed the New York State Democratic conventions in 1974; "The Press and Chile," which discussed the role of the media of the U.S. and Chile in publicizing the junta takeover in Chile; "Consumer Advocacy," which discussed the U.S. Consumer Protection Agency.

Presents several editorials which discuss various subjects. "About as Expected," which discussed the developments in relations between the U.S. and the Soviet Union; "Murder in a Church," which discussed the murder of Alberta King, mother of religious leader Martin Luther King Jr.; "Chile's Navy on July Fourth," which discussed the ceremonial march by the Chilean Navy in Portland, Oregon; "Ernest Gruening," which discussed the U.S. based journalist.

The article focuses on "Weavers of Revolution: The Yarur Workers and Chile's Road to Socialism," by Peter Winn. Drawing on interviews with union and government officials and particularly with rank-and-file workers, Winn has produced a richly textured account of the organizing efforts that propelled the Chilean revolution forward. Winn provides an insightful and comprehensive analysis of paternalistic systems of control, describing how physical coercion complements the use of personal favors. His discussion of conservatism among workers is particularly useful.

Reports on the disclosure of plans of military coup d'état in Chile on March 15, 1972, by the journalist, Jack Anderson. Details about hunger march organized by proletarian women on March 23, 1972; Construction of conference building for United Nations trade conference in Santiago, Chile; Support provided to the President Salvador Allende Gossens, by workers in Chile.

The article focuses on several political events related to the U.S. The Chilean government has destroyed the office of the newspaper "Ultima Hora." This reveals the condition of non-communist mass media in Chile. In this, the American press can play an important role, as it did in the ultimate rehabilitation of another great South American newspaper. The United States has failed to cajole Egypt into a satisfactory Suez settlement. Robert Morris should resign as counsel for the Senate Internal Security Committee. Morris should not be associated with any phase of the government of the U.S. The article also analyzes the new foreign aid program in the U.S.

The article presents social updates of the world, as of January 5, 1899. The biography of economist Justin S. Morrill will, if it come to be written, embrace a large part of the political and especially of the financial history of the United States during the last forty-five-years. In another update, almost the first full account of the siege and battles of Santiago, Chile, from the Spanish point of view is to be found in a book "Combates y Capitulacion de Santiago de Cuba," published in Madrid, Spain, by a lieutenant in the Spanish navy, Don José Müller y Tejeiro.

Focuses on the government policies and prevalent political conditions in the U.S. in 1972. Reference to the report from Saigon, Vietnam by George McArthur related to the future of Vietnam; Role of Salvador Allende in campaigning for the Presidency of Chile; Constituents of the Freedom of Information Act adopted in 1966; Others.

Focuses on political tensions in Chile involving the government led by President Salvador Allende and dissatisfied opposition parties, with a possibility of a civil war, as of December 1972. Criticism of economic and social policies of Allende by the Chilean press; Account of economic scandals that occurred during the reign of Allende; Discontent among the Chilean public on the state of inflation in the country.

The article focuses on the political condition of Chile. On February 9 Colonel Carlos Ibañez succeeded by the mere threat of a military revolt in forcing the Chile government to abdicate. He deported the liberal Premier, named himself as successor, and also retained the Ministry of the Interior. On April 7 he had himself appointed Vice-President also, after forcing the temporary retirement of President Figueroa Larrain. Upon assuming the role of dictator the first act of Ibañez was to arrest, imprison and exile all his opponents. He not only struck at the class-conscious workers and the feudal and clerical interests of the landed aristocracy, but also against certain liberals representing the native financial and mining interests.

The article examines the involvement of the U.S. government in the coup d'etat led by Chilean military leader Augusto Pinochet on September 11, 1973. A deputy to U.S. National Security adviser Henry Kissinger wrote him a memo on September 14, 1970 arguing against covert operations to block the duly elected Chilean socialist Salvador Allende from assuming the presidency. Formerly classified documents reveal that what really bothered the U.S. government was the fact that Allende could establish a model for democratic socialist change.

The article provides information about an earthquake that took place in Chile on March 3, 1985. Measuring 7.4 on the Richter scale, it shook Santiago, Valparaiso and adjacent areas, killing 146 people and leaving some 200,000 homeless. The aftershocks continued for days, causing widespread panic. With damage estimated at up to $600 million, the 2 percent of the national budget that General Augusto Pinochet allotted for the emergency is far from sufficient. The government did not mobilize a civilian network of assistance as it had in the past, or send representatives to the affected areas.

Comments on how the International Longshoremen's & Warehousemen's Union (ILWU) dealt with the issue of loading bomb fins aboard a freighter bound to Chile. Reasons of the ILWU for opposing the load the cargo; Conditions required by the ILWU before allowing the loading of cargo; Response of the U.S. Air Force to the ILWU action.

The inspiration for this article comes in author's mind from the famous phrase "The reports of my death are greatly exaggerated," by Mark Twain. The author of this article imagined that he had been murdered in Chile, where news of author's death came at the end of one of the most depressing weeks in history of his country. "After the failed attempt on his life, on September 7, Augusta Pinochet, our dictator for the past thirteen years, went wild. This was the pretext Pinochet had been waiting for to crush an opposition that had been mounting a campaign of protracted civil disobedience against him." This article is a political satire.

War clouds are gathering between Chile and Peru, according to the widespread advertisement. Recent telegraphic dispatches have reported the withdrawal of the Peruvian Boundary Delegation from the Commission headed by General Pershing to settle the Tacna-Arica frontier dispute. The Peruvian delegation, allege attacks on their members and other extreme measures used by Chileans to intimidate Peru and influence the result of the coming plebiscite, and demand guaranties from Chile that the plebiscite will be carried on without any attempt to coerce or prejudice voters.

The article reports on various issues in the U.S. An increasing number of students of labor and capital, studying in various colleges in the U.S. have sought in their vacations or on leaving college to win an understanding of the human problems of industry, by entering mills and mines as individuals, without letting either employer or fellow-worker know that they bear the brand of a college education. The Couzens committee had recently made charges against the U.S. Treasury Department that they had deprived the country of millions of dollars in income taxes through favoritism to various large companies. Chile gets the best of it in the decision which U.S. President Calvin Coolidge, as arbitrator, has made in regard to the long-standing dispute over the provinces of Tacna and Arica.

The article presents information on political conditions around the world. Senator Robert L. Owen has made a wise suggestion which is so wise that it will almost certainly be left unrealized. He has offered a resolution directing the Foreign Affairs Committee of the Senate to appoint a committee to study the question of the origin of the war. Like a tale from the long ago is that brought from Chile of the voyage of the sailing ship Garthwray from Grarigemouth, Scotland, to Iquique. It has all elements of old-time adventure at sea, a trip of prodigious length, a battle with storms, long-continuing danger and hardship, reduced rations and final victory.

This article presents information on political and social issues. The documents published on Sunday and Monday, in relation to the conduct of U.S. diplomatic and naval representatives in Chili during the civil war in that country, are made public in the best way to secure the attention which their importance calls for. The opinion of the United States Supreme Court in the case of the United States against Holy Trinity Church is now reported at length, and contains some reasoning that deserves attention.

The article presents information on various political developments in Chile in relation to democracy. On September 5, 1938, an armed revolt organized by the Chile Nacista Party was put down with brutal vigor by the government then in power, and from 61 to 100 young men were killed, most of them unnecessarily and in cold blood. On October 25 the presidential election was held and Pedro Aguirre Cerda, candidate of a broad popular front, was chosen President, defeating the reactionary Gustavo Ross, who was backed by most upper-class Chileans and foreign business. On December 24 Aguirre Cerda was inaugurated, and that same night he freed the Nacistas, including their leader, Gonzalez von Maree, who had been in prison since the uprising.

Presents letters to the editor referencing articles and topics discussed in previous issues. Enragement of Chilians; Discussion on State politics; Subscription for the University Marine Biological Association.

Presents several letters to the editor. Neutrality of the U.S. in the Chili Revolution; Comments on the book "Account of the Sufferings of the Clergy"; Corrections related to the German translation of the book "Christianismi Restitutio."

The author compares how the U.S. responded to the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks to Chile's reaction to the September 11, 1973 military coup that killed its president, Salvador Allende, and installed General Augusto Pinochet as ruler. In the author's view the U.S. embarked upon two costly and wasteful wars that have killed thousands and eroded civil rights. Conversely, he states that most people in Chile's resistance movement undertook a strategy of nonviolent protest to oust Pinochet, and in doing so embraced peace over violence.

In this article the author comments on the economic and social implications of an earthquake in Chile in 2010. He remarks on a divide between the rich and the poor, noting that the poorest twenty percent of Chileans earn five percent of the national income. He criticizes the economic policies of former Chilean President Augusto Pinochet the response to the earthquake by outgoing President Michelle Bachelet.

The article reports that Chile's former leader, General Augusto Pinochet died on December 10, 2006. The author discusses Pinochet's rule, which included human right abuses and the dismantling of labor organizations. According to the author, Pinochet was encouraged by Richard Nixon, Henry Kissinger, and Ronald Reagan. The article discusses Pinochet's arrest in London for international human rights violations against Spanish citizens; Pinochet was eventually deported to Chile to face criminal charges.

Focuses on contributions of Chilean poet Nicanor Parra. Theatrical performance based on his work called "Hojas de Párra"; Slogans and responses by his supporters as reported in the magazine "Ercilla"; Publication of the work in the newspaper "La Tercera" under a page-one headline.

Nobody in Chile now doubts that a civilian successor to the fearsome General Augusto Pinochet will be democratically elected on December 14, 1989, even though the general will remain President until next March, and even though he insists that he will remain in command of the army for another four years, under the terms of the constitution that he railroaded through in 1980. The election will be a three-way contest. However, the future significance of the vote lies less in the identity of the winner than in the margin of Democratic candidate Patricio Aylwin's victory. On that will rest the character of Chile's transition to democratic rule. Rebuilding democracy in Chile will not be easy. The ruling alliance between the country's business class and its armed forces both sectors being fiercely ideological, has taken advantage of its final year in power to create roads blocks to any program of political or economic change.

The article presents the conversation the author had with people on the general conditions in war-torn Chile. In the mountainous region of Chile, children are breast fed till the age of one year as there is other source of milk because there is no pastures in those parts of the country to feed the cattle. After their first years infants food as their elders. The children are hardy and they usually do not fall sick. The family with which the author had conversation had fallen ill at cotton farms before they came to the lumber camp.

The article presents information on the Chilean Elections. In addition to the political factors indicated for which this election was significant, the rise of a new democracy and the installation in the presidency of the first candidates of the people in Chilean history, there are two others worthy of note. One is that the presidency is returning to its one-time prestige. Formerly the president was the principal element in the Government, even going so far as virtually to choose his successor.

Salvador Allende, President of Chile, has sent to the Congress a constitutional amendment which would lay the legal groundwork for the takeover by the state of the copper industry in Chile. Allende came to power with promising to return the basic elements of Chile's economy to the state and to regain control of the country's financial machinery. He said he would nationalize all copper, iron and nitrate companies. Allende seems eager to demonstrate that he is not imposing anything unwanted upon the public. Moreover, Allende has also tried to improve his relations with neighboring countries, Chile has also agreed to exchange prisoners in Brazil. The presidents has been intent on effecting social and economic changes within Chile.

The article presents information about recent confessions made by Chile's President Jose Balmaceda. He talks throughout as a savior of society, who derives his power from some source, superior to that from which the Chilean Congress derives its power. The only part of the message, which has any relevancy, is Balmaceda's explanation of the causes of the quarrel between himself and the Congress. Balmaceda evidently thinks parliament not only useless but also mischievous. There were also quarrels about the Presidential power of collecting the taxes, and about the execution of the electoral laws, and various other matters.

The article comments on current events and world politics. Socialist Party leader Michelle Bachelet, Chile's first woman president, is not expected to bring economic reform to the country. A quote from Al Gore focused on warrantless wiretapping in the United States. The Maryland legislature passed a bill that requires Wal-Mart to provide health insurance to their employees who have relied on Medicaid programs. Two economic studies, by Scott Wallsten of the Brookings Institution, and economist Joseph Stiglitz with Linda Bilmes of Harvard, indicate the costs of the Iraq War will be more than $1 trillion. An essay contest sponsored by "Nation" is mentioned.

The article discusses the books "Pinochet and Me" by Mare Cooper and "5 Days That Shook the World: Seatle and Beyond," by Alexander Cockburn, Jeffrey St. Clair and Allan Sekula. The book "Pinochet and Me," is part diaristic reconstruction of the 1973 coup in Chile and part chronicle of return trips the author has made since to Chile. "5 Days That Shook the World," protests against the "World Trade Organization" and other institutions of the new global economic order. The authors have keen eyes for the social ironies surrounding the events.

During the international complications of the last few months, one have heard so much, about what would have happened if politicians William Howard Taft or Theodore Roosevelt had been elected U.S. President in 1912, that it may be of interest to look back at recent Administrations which have had threats of war dinned in their ears and see what happened. One needs revert no further than to politician Benjamin Harrison's term, when some of the seamen from the U.S. state Maryland were maltreated by a mob in the streets of Valparaiso, Chile, and the Government of Chile was called upon for reparation. Chile had, just then, enough troubles of her own to excuse, in her opinion, a little delay, even if no account were taken of the local manana habit. The President, weary of fruitless negotiation with Chile, allowed a hint to escape from the White House that he should cut short her dilly-dallying by a given day.

This article focuses on internal political disturbance of Chile. The dispute between the President of Chile José M. Balmaceda and Congress is a very interesting study in government for foreign observers. Here in the United States, and in England, it seems now to be a settled maxim of party government, accepted by all parties, that no matter what differences may prevail between the Executive and the Legislature, the appropriations necessary to keep the existing machinery of administration in motion shall always be made, that is, that expenses of the army, navy, and civil service for one year at least shall be voted.