Salvador Allende
Icarus Films To Release 8-DVD Box Set of Patricio Guzmán’s Documentaries
Icarus Films have announced that they will be releasing a special eight-disc box set collection called Five Films by Patricio... Read Article
Nae Pasarán and How Scottish Factory Workers Took On Pinochet: An Interview with Director Felipe Bustos Sierra
In the 1970s, as Chile found itself within the iron grip of General Pinochet’s military dictatorship, solidarity movements sprung up... Read Article
Chilean Writer Isabel Allende: A Personal Touch, A Beloved Author
When it comes to beloved Latin American novelists, Chile’s Isabel Allende is always in the mix. Her first novel, The... Read Article
Story of a Death Foretold by Oscar Guardiola-Rivera
Story of a Death Foretold (subtitled The Coup against Salvador Allende, 11 September 1973) is an impressive and highly readable account... Read Article
Marx and Freud in Latin America
Marx and Freud in Latin America, subtitled Politics, Psychoanalysis and Religion in Times of Terror, written by Bruno Bosteels and... Read Article
11 Documentaries on the Military Dictatorship in Chile
For anyone interested in learning more about the Pinochet years in Chile, there are a whole host of documentaries, spanning... Read Article
The Last Tango of Salvador Allende
There has been something of a rise in recent times of novels that fall under the ‘faction’ category. The name... Read Article
REVIEW Democracy? What’s In A Name? Review Of The Battle Of Chile
The Battle of Chile, subtitled La Lucha De Un Pueblo Sin Armas (The Fight Of An Unarmed People) by Chilean... Read Article
Venezuela’s Oil Refinery Blaze: Seven Good Reasons to Suspect Sabotage
“You can’t exclude any hypothesis… It’s practically impossible that here in an [oil] installation like this which is fully automated... Read Article
To Make A Documentary Is An Adventure: An Interview with Patricio Guzmán
Patricio Guzmán is one of Latin America’s most extraordinary filmmakers. The director of more than a dozen documentaries, his films... Read Article