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Ariel Dorfman

Chilean-American author, playwright

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  • Smoke pours from La Moneda, the Chilean presidential palace, during the military coup.

    50 Years After “the Other 9/11”: Remembering the Chilean Coup

    Some personal reflections on history, memory, and the survival of democracies.
    by Ariel Dorfman via The Nation on September 11, 2023
  • Salvador Allende campaigning before Chile’s parliamentary elections, Santiago, February 1973.

    Defending Allende

    On September 4, 1973, an enormous multitude of Chileans poured into the streets of Santiago to back the besieged government of Salvador Allende.
    by Ariel Dorfman via New York Review of Books on August 24, 2023
  • Soldiers burning books.

    How We Roasted Donald Duck, Disney's Agent of Imperialism

    Why a 47-year old anti-colonialist critique by Chilean dissidents may be newly relevant in the Trump era.
    by Ariel Dorfman via The Guardian on October 5, 2018
  • What Herman Melville Can Teach Us About the Trump Era

    He would point out that what plagues us are America's sins coming home to roost.
    by Ariel Dorfman via The Nation on May 10, 2017
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Para Leer al Pato Donald
Ariel Dorfman, Armand Mattelart
1971
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