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A Bitter Victory for the Chilean Right?

Sebastián Piñera is on track to win Chile's presidency. He will struggle to govern.

Cristóbal Rovira Kaltwasser

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Politics & Society Dec 13, 2017 Snapshot

A Bitter Victory for the Chilean Right?

Sebastián Piñera is on track to win Chile's presidency. He will struggle to govern.

Cristóbal Rovira Kaltwasser

Sebastián Piñera waving to supporters in Santiago, November 2017.

Politics & Society May 3, 2017 Snapshot

Making Chile Great Again

Since its return to democracy in 1990, Chile has been heralded as Latin America’s exception. Yet over the last half decade, this tranquillity has come to an end.

Shannon K. O'Neil

A man looks at the Andes mountains from an office in downtown Santiago, September 2015.

Chile Dec 2, 2015 Snapshot

Bachelet's Last Stand

A strong of earthquakes has hit Chile in the middle of the strongest political, economic, and social shocks the country has seen in many years. Facing corruption...

Roland Benedikter, Katja Siepmann, and Miguel Zlosilo

Police fired water cannons to disperse crowds during a rally, as Chile's President Michelle Bachelet delivers a speech inside the National Congress, May 21, 2015.

Corruption Apr 12, 2015 Snapshot

Chile in Crisis

Some argue that Chile is living through the worst political crisis since the 1973 overthrow of President Salvador Allende. That is certainly exaggerated. Chile’s...

Juan de Onis

Chile's President Michelle Bachelet in front of the government palace in Santiago, September 18, 2014.

U.S. Foreign Policy September/October 2014 Response

Showdown in Santiago

Kornbluh asserts that, contrary to Devine's interpretation of events, the CIA never gave up on the goal of pushing Chilean President Salvador Allende from power and...

Peter Kornbluh; Jack Devine

South America - Foreign Affairs

U.S. Foreign Policy Jun 23, 2014 Video

Foreign Affairs Focus: Jack Devine on Pinochet's Coup

Gideon Rose, editor of Foreign Affairs, sits down with Jack Devine, a former CIA operations officer, to get his take on U.S. involvement in Chile.

Political Development July/August 2014 Comment

What Really Happened in Chile

The 1973 coup in Chile is often included in indictments of U.S. covert action during the Cold War, during which the United States, at the direction of a number of...

Jack Devine

Economic Development Jun 12, 2013 Snapshot

Meet the Mattes

Viewed from the outside, Chile seems to deserve its reputation as a rising economic star. From the inside, though, the picture is less cheery. The tale of a powerful...

Roland Benedikter and Katja Siepmann

Campaigns & Elections Jun 2, 2013 Letter From

Change For Chile

The upcoming presidential election in Chile will test whether the country's middle-class majority will continue to support a government that has brought economic...

Juan de Onis

Chile - Foreign Affairs

Trade Sep 6, 2012 Snapshot

Trouble on the Triple Frontier

The Triple Frontier has long served as a hub of organized crime and smuggling. But thanks to the economic downturn, the merchants that once thrived on illicit trade...

Christine Folch

Political Development April 1939 Essay

Chile Moves Left

Clarence H. Haring

Chile July 1935 Essay

How Chile Has Met the Depression

Ernesto Barros Jarpa

Chile - Foreign Affairs

Chile July 1929 Essay

The Tacna-Arica Settlement

Anonymous

Chile - Foreign Affairs

Chile September 1923 Essay

A Possible Settlement of the Tacna and Arica Question

Anonymous

Chile - Foreign Affairs

Chile September 1922 Essay

The Tacna-Arica Controversy

Edwin M. Borchard

Nixon Administration March/April 2004 Letter

Crisis Prevention

To the Editor:...

William D. Rogers

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Chile - Foreign Affairs

U.S. Foreign Policy January/February 2004 Response

Fleeing the Chilean Coup: The Debate Over U.S. Complicity

Former Assistant Secretary of State William D. Rogers disputes charges of U.S. complicity in the rise and rule of Pinochet; Kenneth Maxwell replies.

William D. Rogers & Kenneth Maxwell

Chile - Foreign Affairs

Nixon Administration November/December 2003 Review Essay

The Other 9/11: The United States and Chile, 1973

Thirty years after the overthrow of Salvador Allende in Chile, The Pinochet File, a "dossier" of declassified documents, lays out the true U.S. role.

Kenneth Maxwell

Economic Development November/December 1993 Essay

Is Pinochet the Model?

The "Pinochet model," a potent mixture of authoritarianism and liberal economic reform, is sold as the elixir to nearly any country ailing under socialist transition....

Angelo M. Codevilla

Chile - Foreign Affairs

Civil Society Winter 1989/90 Essay

Chile's Return to Democracy

Chile's transition from Pinochet's rule to civilian government was remarkably smooth. What explains its success?

Pamela Constable and Arturo Valenzuela

Chile - Foreign Affairs

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