Chile

Augusto Pinochet was a Chilean general, politician and the military ruler of Chile between 1973 to 1990. He remained the Commander-in-Chief of the Chilean Army until 1998. Augusto Pinochet was born on November 25, 1995 and passed away on December 10, 2006. Throughout the major events, effects on society and turning points in Pinochet’s life demonstrates how his dictatorship will be remembered. Augusto Pinochet assumed power in Chile following a United States-backed on September 11, 1973 that…

international opposition, and internal opposition within the military government) (Kornbluh 159) Projects and measures carried out by the DINA * 13,500 were arrested and detained after the initial Junta coup * Turned National Stadium in Santiago Chile into a detention centre where torture and information extraction was to be carried out * DINA established the “Brigada Ciudana” a branch of the DINA composed of civilians who work for the DINA as informers (Kornbluh 187) *…

You might have seen him walking around the University at Albany campus. His long hair, his lanky build, and his nonchalant demeanor might have caught your eye as you walk to class. You might have brushed him off as a “hipster” or just a strange individual that isn’t worth your time to stop and say hello. Well I sat down with this man, Quinn Zinkievich, and talked about who he is. Though only 21-years-old, Quinn has traveled the world visiting nine different countries including Belize, Costa…

A women’s movement that started to take off, consisting of mothers and wives of the people that were disappearing in Chile, they just wanted to bring to attention what others were to scared to express and defend the lives of their children. Alongside their movement was a movement that started to oppose the Catholic church, as shown in document 18, a father was so distressed…

The identity of individuals in post-European-colonization Latin America is simultaneous fragile and dynamic. Previously clear ethno-racial lines and national allegiances began to blend in the nineteenth century, contributing greatly to an increasingly poignant dilemma in selfhood. The lives of two prominent Latin American revolutionists, Simo ́n Boli ́var and Jose de San Marti ́n, uniquely demonstrated the dichotomous nature of having both European and Latin American connections of a political and…

“Chile, province fertile and marked / in the famed region of Antarctica / by remote nations respected / for its strength, nobility, and power” is part of the poem La Araucana, written by Alonso de Ercilla Zúñiga, and considered as the first work piece of literature in Chile. A Spanish soldier, he wrote his epic poem while he spent two years in Chile in the 16th century. As with other dimensions of Chilean social, economic, and cultural life, literature has also been influenced by the European…

characteristics: passion and Catholicism. During the political movements that took place on the pope’s visit to Chile, these two factors led to the creation and success of the pobladores’ protests. As Goodwin describes in his article “ Why Emotions Matter”, it is important to analyze how emotions originate, spread, and finally lead to the decline of movements (Goodwin 2001). In the particular case of Chile, emotions fueled the fire of rage toward the government, which lead to martyrdom and other…

education), these promises have not yet been realized. Additionally, looking at these issues through a Bourdieuan perspective shows how Chilean students are limited by their social structures, largely tied to how much capital these students have. Within Chile, the education system reproduces privilege by granting better learning environments for students in more affluent backgrounds, as the privatization of Chilean schools has led to a disparity in educational quality between public and private…

through an exhaustive analysis, the authoritarianism of these regimes requires a comparison. Expansion of the similarities and the differences between Mubarak and Pinochet will provide a deeper understanding of the flexibility of autocracy. Egypt and Chile are an ocean apart, literally and figuratively. The regions differ greatly in nearly all facets such as origins, geography, language, social beliefs, and countless more. Examining a Middle Eastern authoritarianism and a Latin American…

to help society by emphasizing that we are all the same. In the poem, Neruda says, “No one can claim the name of Pedro, nobody is Rosa or Maria, all of us are dust or sand, all of us are rain under rain. They have spoken to me about Venezuelas, of Chiles and of Paraguays, I have no idea what they are saying. I know only the skin of the earth and I know it is without a name” (347). This quote states that names and counties of origin are meaningless when it comes to understanding how people are.…