Augusto Pinochet

respective nations, trade off for the ultimate power and control All the dictators have strong hold until their death, Fidel Castro joins the ranks of the 20th century dictators Joseph Stalin, Francisco Franco, Rafael Trujillo, Adolf Hitler, Augusto Pinochet, Hugo Chavez.…

There were several major causes for the collapse of the Soviet Union. After Soviet leaders extended their navy and support for rebel movements; the United States restated an anti-Soviet posture in 1981, when Ronald Regan threatened the Soviet regime with intensive military spending. After 1985 a new Soviet leader, Mikhail Gorbachev, tried to save communism by introducing reforms. Gorbachev’s attempts to salvage communism failed and in 1989 after communism was replaced with solidarity the Berlin…

and is totally against communism. Iran is similar to Frac’s government not in terms of ideology; but in how democracy is not permitted nor practiced. Dictators such as Salvadoran leader Maximiliano Hernandez in the 1930’s and Chilean general Augusto Pinochet who ruled his country during the 1980’s, are two of the examples which are followed by our leader. The people of the country have almost no rights in terms of stepping out into the public and giving out different opinions. This has been…

motivate Haitians to create change in their country, but it ultimately inspired an uprising which resulted in the overthrow of Duvalier in 1986. Another prominent dictatorship that Pope John Paul II put an end to was that of Chilean military ruler Augusto Pinochet. He was praised by many for his courageous stance against Pinochet’s authority, including Bishop Carlos Camus, a well-known critic of Pinochet’s…

Pablo Neruda has usually been cited together the best poets of the twentieth century, and also the heritage of this Nobel-prize winning author undeniably lives sturdy in his wide translated books and in social media wherever the younger generation has adopted his words to specific their thoughts of affection and its quality. An invited guest of this years Cinemaissí and also the director of Cantalao, Diego Del Pozo admits to being an excellent fan of Pablo Neruda. “Without being objective, I…

Communism, a political and economic ideology which beliefs consist around replacing privately owned property with public ownership and changing the economy from profit-based to a communal control system of the main means of production and natural resources of the nation . Between the years of 1947 and 1991, The Eastern Bloc and the Western Bloc were battling a geopolitical war which was known as The Cold War . Many factors resulted in the cause of The Cold War however the fear of Communism…

¨You can cut all the flowers but you cannot keep spring from coming¨ (Horden). There are two perspectives this quote can be observed from. First, repression exerted by fascist dictators won't keep democracy from coming. Second, even if you avoid tentations, love will make its way through. Pablo Neruda was born in Chile but lived most of his life away from his country. Poems in which he talks about being away from home will be constant during his life. Neruda started writing at a very short age…

Neoliberalist reform was most prevalent in Chile during the right-wing dictatorship of Augusto Pinochet. With the counsel of the Chicago Boys, a group of American trained economists, the movement of a laissez-faire, neoliberalist economy in Latin America spurred forth. While it did push Chile into some economic growth, there were many unforeseen…

The cold war was a fierce war between two conflicting ideologies. On one side you had the US and its allies, and on the other side you had the Soviet Union and its allies. It seemed pretty straightforward until you realize there was a 3rd faction. These were the group of countries that were not close allies of either nation. Both sides tried their hardest to spread their ideology and systems throughout the world. This essay will be focus on the US during the Cold War and how they overthrew and…

Literature is a type of healing and the mirrors in life which regardless of what a person is facing daily. Piece of writing that can claim in some of artistic beauty. The writer’s opinion is a way of communicate through the written words with arrogant judgment, from the Literature waterfall from long Canadian Literature river. A great literature presupposes an advanced and well integrated society, a mature body and self-conscious soul. The stirring records of explorers and pioneers by discovery…