The myth that the United States toppled President Salvador Allende of Chile in 1973 lives. In 1975, a Senate subcommittee headed by Frank Church -- a stalwart Democrat and no friend of the Nixon ...
Twenty-five years after Chile's return to democracy, glorifying Augusto Pinochet has finally become taboo, but the country is still fighting to erase the social and political legacy of his ...
On Sept. 11, 1973, a military junta seized power in Chile. A month later, WNET/Channel 13 was promoting what it billed as “American television’s first in-depth profile” of the coup. The one-hour ...
On Sept. 11, 1973, Chile’s democratically elected president, Salvador Allende, was overthrown in a violent coup.The dictatorship that followed under Gen. Augusto Pinochet lasted 17 years, leaving ...
The Red Hangar Courtesy of Villano Prods. World premiering at the Berlinale’s Perspectives sidebar, black & white Chilean drama “The Red Hangar” (“Hangar rojo”) chronicles little-known events behind ...