Salvador Allende

On September 4, 1973, an enormous multitude of Chileans poured into the streets of Santiago to back the besieged government of Salvador Allende.

In a new book, the Pulitzer Prize winner Greg Grandin tells the history of the hemisphere from south of the border.

The primary sources on Kissinger’s controversial legacy.

The Chicago Boys and the tragedy of the Chilean coup.

Some personal reflections on history, memory, and the survival of democracies.

Fifty years after the military coup that brought down Salvador Allende and installed Pinochet as dicator, top secret US documents still need to be declassified.

On September 21, 1976, he was assassinated by a car bomb in the heart of Washington, DC.

Chile voted calmly to have a Marxist-Leninist state, the first nation in the world to make this choice freely and knowingly, on September 4, 1970.

Why a 47-year old anti-colonialist critique by Chilean dissidents may be newly relevant in the Trump era.

Greg Grandin’s sweeping history of the new world shows how immutably intertwined the United States is with Latin America.

Documents show Henry Kissinger misled President Gerald Ford about clandestine U.S. efforts to undermine the elected government of Salvador Allende.

What was the Popular Front? Where did it come from, and where did its energies go?

In a demonstration of why he was able to kill so many people and get away with it, the day of his passage will be a solemn one in Congress and newsrooms.

Chile’s president was in Washington over the weekend to mark a grim anniversary. Congress is still asking questions about the U.S. role in the 1973 coup.

Chicago economists had free rein in Chile. The country is still recovering.

How we outsourced foreign aid to private companies.

Víctor Jara was a legendary Chilean folk singer and political activist whose murder during a U.S.-backed military coup in 1973 went unsolved for decades.

The hidden hypocrisy within American outrage over Russian election meddling.

When it comes to imperialism, Latin America never forgets, and the United States never remembers.

He would point out that what plagues us are America's sins coming home to roost.