News Source: io9
| 1 month ago
Whether the Nobel prizewinner's death was from prostate cancer (the official diagnosis) or poisoning has been a longstanding mystery. But earlier this week, Neruda's body was removed from its tomb, launching a forensic investigation that could
News Source: The Globe & Mail
| 1 month ago
Reuters Video Chile Con Carne, Carmen Aguirre's witty, semi-autobiographical monologue about growing up as a refugee of Chile's Pinochet regime, vividly captures the feelings of a child torn between two worlds. Manuelita desperately wants to fit in
News Source: HNN
| 3 months ago
Francisco Toro is a Venezuelan journalist, political scientist and blogger. Born and raised in Caracas, he attended High School and College in the United States. H ugo Chavez died today in Venezuela at the age of 58, but his battle with a never-
News Source: Village Voice
| 3 months ago
In No , It's the Ad Men vs. the Dictator Popaganda The old line: entrenched but losing. Sony Pictures Classics In 1988 the fate of Chile and its dictator came down to a ballot as simple as a middle-schooler's do-you-like-me? note. A referendum
News Source: United Press International
| 3 months ago
A Chilean judge ordered the exhumation of Pablo Neruda, who allegedly died of prostate cancer, after the poet's former chauffeur said he was not sick. Officials had declared Neruda died just 12 days after the 1973 military coup in Chile due to
News Source: The Globe & Mail
| 8 months ago
Pablo Larrain (Chile/U.S.) Recontextualize Mad Men as a political thriller and it might look like this absorbing, thought-provoking film from Chilean director Pablo Larrain. A popular and critical hit at Cannes earlier this year, No is Larrain's
News Source: International Business Times
| 8 months ago
A court in Chile confirmed Tuesday that former President Salvador Allende committed suicide by shooting himself during the military coup led by Gen...Forensic tests on Allende's exhumed remains finally settled the long-debated question. The court's
News Source: Arab News
| 9 months ago
Tuesday 4 September 2012 US space program Gwynne Dyer's article Armstrong over space program abandonment (Sept. 3) clearly brings to light the desuetude into which the American space program has fallen and from which it must extricate itself if it is