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WikiLeaks: Vatican Dismissed Pinochet Massacre Reports As 'Communist Propaganda'

Mon, 08 Apr 2013 00:00:00 -0700

Huffington Post - By Peter Finocchiaro - Apr. 08 (News Report) - Gen. Augusto Pinochet's military dictatorship was responsible for the deaths of as many as 3,200 people in Chile in the 1970s, but the Vatican dismissed reports of bloodshed at the time as "communist propaganda," according to diplomatic cables released by WikiLeaks on Monday.

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Where Did Paul Ryan Find Inspiration for 'Reforming' Social Security? A Brutal Military Dictatorship, Naturally

Wed, 31 Oct 2012 00:00:00 -0700

AlterNet - By Bruce Willson - Oct. 31 (Investigative Report) - In 2005 Congressman Paul Ryan led a failed Republican legislative push for a Social Security privatization plan that also later popped up in Ryan's 2010 "Roadmap For America's Future". This centerpiece of Ryan's budgetary vision traces back to a vicious war on the poor and middle class that was waged over three decades ago by a South American police state.

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Chile’s Rescued Miners Face Major Struggles a Year Later

Wed, 12 Oct 2011 00:00:00 -0700

New York Times - By Alexei Barrionuevo - Oct. 12 (News Report) - After his dramatic rescue from a mine last year, Jimmy Sánchez traveled the world, cruising the Greek islands, visiting Britain, Israel, Los Angeles, Disney World — all paid for by people who were moved by the Chilean miners’ story of courage and perseverance. Multimedia Slide Show Miners Cheated Death, but Normal Life Proves Elusive Interactive Feature The 33 Chilean Miners, Then and Now Leonardo Farkas on the 33 Rescued Miners Related Times Topic: Chile Mining Accident (2010) Connect With Us on Twitter Follow @nytimesworld for international breaking news and headlines. More Photos » Readers’ Comments Share your thoughts. Post a Comment » Read All Comments (26) »

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Failed Education Reform in Chile Prompts Hunger Strikes, Protests by Thousands of Students

Thu, 04 Aug 2011 00:00:00 -0700

Democracy Now - By Amy Goodman - Aug. 04 (News Report) - They are demanding an end to privatized education in Chile, which has left generations of students deep in debt.

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Los 33: Chilean miners face up to a strange new world

Sun, 17 Jul 2011 00:00:00 -0700

The Guardian - By Angus Macqueen - Jul. 17 (News Report) - The rescue of 33 miners from Chile's San José mine after 69 days trapped underground was a triumph shared with the whole world. But the transition back to normality is proving difficult for both the men and their families 'They are not heroes. We are not heroes. We are all victims," murmurs Lilly Ramírez, the uncompromising partner of Mario Gómez. At 63, he was the oldest of "the 33" Chilean miners who were trapped half a mile under the Chilean desert on 5 August 2010, and whose rescue became a global event for a TV audience of an estimated 1 billion people. Ever since they emerged 69 days later on the night of 12/13 October, I have been working on two BBC documentaries: about what happened while the men were down the mine – and what has happened to them and their families since. Now, as the first anniversary approaches, it is the tenacity and the suffering of the women – the wives and partners – that emerges. They and their men were certainly victims but I am not sure Lilly is right: there ...

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Mass 'scareware' attack hits 1.5M websites, still spreading -

Sat, 02 Apr 2011 00:00:00 -0700

USA Today - By Michael Winter - Apr. 02 (Special Report) - A massive attack that's trying to scare computer users into visiting a bogus antivirus site has infected more than 1.5 million websites and continues to spread, according to an Internet security firm. Several pages on Apple's iTunes store have been infected. The so-called LizaMoon "SQL injection attack" began Tuesday and is being tracked by Websense. Such attacks redirect users by exploiting programming errors and poorly written code and scripts. eWeek says the attack is "out of control ... with no end in sight." Nearly half the compromised sites are in the United States. Other affected countries include United Kingdom, Kuwait, India, Australia, Turkey, Brazil, Israel, Mexico, Taiwan and Chile.

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Rescue May Redeem a Troubled Past for Chilean City

Fri, 15 Oct 2010 00:00:00 -0700

New York Times - By Simon Romero - Oct. 15 (News) - In the predawn hours of Oct. 17, 1973 — 37 years before the mine rescue, almost to the day — military personnel murdered 16 men near here, including some who worked for Chile’s state mining company.

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Chile's Ghosts Are Not Being Rescued

Thu, 14 Oct 2010 00:00:00 -0700

truth-out.org - By John Pilger - Oct. 14 (News Analysis) - The rescue of 33 miners in Chile is an extraordinary drama filled with pathos and heroism. It is also a media windfall for the Chilean government, whose every beneficence is recorded by a forest of cameras. One cannot fail to be impressed. However, like all great media events, it is a facade. The accident that trapped the miners is not unusual in Chile and is the inevitable consequence of a ruthless economic system that has barely changed since the dictatorship of Gen. Augusto Pinochet.

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WSJ Credits 'Capitalism' For Saving The Miners, After It Endangered Them

Thu, 14 Oct 2010 00:00:00 -0700

Huffington Post - Oct. 14 (News Analysis) - As Chile remains the myth-laden crock pot into which America's most dedicated free-market fetishists have long steeped their Chicago-school goulash, it was only a matter of time before someone from the Wall Street Journal came along to revise "Footprints" in the matter of the rescued Chilean miners: "My precious child, when you saw yourself lifted out of the darkest hole of your life, 'twas Milton Friedman who carried you." Right on time, here's Daniel Henninger: It needs to be said. The rescue of the Chilean miners is a smashing victory for free-market capitalism. Amid the boundless huma

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Drill breaks through to trapped Chilean miners

Sat, 09 Oct 2010 00:00:00 -0700

Reuters - Oct. 09 (Breaking News) - Men expected to be pulled to suface starting Wednesday.

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Study Begins On Fault Line Near Nuclear Reactor in Chile

Tue, 01 Jun 2010 00:00:00 -0700

Santiago Times - By Andrew Dornon - Jun. 01 (News) - Responding to concerns of local residents, Chile´s Commission on Nuclear Energy is beginning to investigate the risks posed by the Center for Nuclear Studies in the Santiago borough of La Reina. The San Ramón geological fault runs through the eastern part of Santiago where the Center is located.

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Piñera and Coal-Burning Power Plants

Tue, 20 Apr 2010 00:00:00 -0700

santiagotimes.cl - By Alex MuÑoz - Apr. 20 (Opinion) - Chile has an extraordinary potential for the use of non-conventional renewable sources. We have vast places to take advantage of the wind — both in sea and land — and the sun, plus the benefits of tidal power.

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Chile gives US weapons-grade uranium

Thu, 08 Apr 2010 00:00:00 -0700

Associated Press - By Michael Warren, Meg Kinnard - Apr. 08 (News Report) - Even as aftershocks from last month's magnitude 8.8 earthquake shook their equipment, U.S. and Chilean engineers worked together to carefully extract Chile's last HEU. It was no simple operation - the radioactive material was carefully loaded into specially designed casks and then lowered into two huge shipping containers for the ocean voyage. All told, 60 tons of metal were needed to keep just 18 kilograms (40 pounds) of HEU from leaking radioactivity.

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Chile's Socialist Rebar

Fri, 05 Mar 2010 06:09:14 -0800

The Nation - By Naomi Klein - Mar. 05 (News Report) - It is Chile's democratic, socialist roots, not the free-marketers who prevailed after Pinochet's coup, that are to thank for the strict building codes that have protected citizens from the earthquake.

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Milton Friedman did not save Chile

Thu, 04 Mar 2010 00:00:00 -0800

The Guardian - By Naomi Klein - Mar. 04 (Opinion) - To say the late economist deserves credit for the country?s building codes shows a lack of knowledge of pre-coup Chile Ever since deregulation caused a worldwide economic meltdown in September ?08 and everyone became a Keynesian again, it hasn?t been easy to be a fanatical follower of the late economist Milton Friedman. So widely discredited is his brand of free-market fundamentalism that his admirers have become increasingly desperate to claim ideological victories, however far fetched. A particularly distasteful case in point. Just two days after Chile was struck by a devastating earthquake, Wall Street Journal columnist Bret Stephens informed his readers that Milton Friedman?s "spirit was surely hovering protectively over Chile" because, ...

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Chile's President on the Earthquake and the Tsunami

Tue, 02 Mar 2010 00:00:00 -0800

Time - Mar. 02 (News) - Chilean President Michelle Bachelet talks to the press at the National Office of Emergency of the Interior Ministry in Santiago, Chile after a huge 8.8-magnitude earthquake rocked the country. As rescue efforts continued in the devastated area around

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Chile: Tsunami Strikes Juan Fernández Islands

Mon, 01 Mar 2010 00:00:00 -0800

Global Voices - By Eduardo Avila - Mar. 01 (News Report) - Another Chilean island territory, the Juan Fernández Islands located closer to the Chilean coast at a distance of 667 km, was not spared from the effects of the waves caused by the powerful earthquake.

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Quake leaves many Chileans in the dark and in fear

Mon, 01 Mar 2010 00:00:00 -0800

CNN - Mar. 01 (News Report) - As Sunday night fell on Chile, heavily populated parts of the country were without water and electricity, and reports of looting raised fears about security in some areas.

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Stephens: How Milton Friedman Saved Chile

Mon, 01 Mar 2010 00:00:00 -0800

Wall Street Journal - By Stephens, Bret - Mar. 01 (Opinion) - Milton Friedman gave Chileans the intellectual wherewithal first to survive the quake, and now to build their lives anew.

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Chile counts cost as tsunami ebbs

Sun, 28 Feb 2010 00:00:00 -0800

BBC News - Feb. 28 (News Report) - Chile's coastal towns have suffered severe damage in the quake Chile has begin to count the cost of its deadly 8.8 magnitude earthquake as nations around the Pacific eased their fears of a devastating tsunami. The quake, early on Saturday morning,

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Chile quake: The view from Valdivia

Sun, 28 Feb 2010 00:00:00 -0800

GlobalPost - Feb. 28 (News Report) - One of the world’s six-largest earthquakes in recorded history has left hundreds dead and damaged buildings, roads, and bridges throughout central Chile. Chileans slowly are becoming aware of the breadth of the disaster, which President Michelle Bachelet called "a catastrophe of devastating consequences." Chile’s president-in-waiting, Sebastian Pinera, who is to take office on Mar. 11, had an extensive tour of the damage, then grimly told reporters “it is probable that the official number of people who have lost their lives is going to increase, and there are many injured.”

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Contributing to Chile -- What You Can Do Now

Sun, 28 Feb 2010 00:00:00 -0800

Huffington Post - By Angela Perkey - Feb. 28 (Opinion) - The horrific earthquake in Chile that follows the recent destruction and devastation of Haiti can be overwhelming. Seeing the endless streams of families without houses or any of their personal belongings is difficult to watch. Personally, I prefer not

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Chile earthquake: more than 700 dead, 2 million displaced

Sun, 28 Feb 2010 00:00:00 -0800

Associated Press - Feb. 28 (Breaking News) - Santiago, Chile » Rescuers searched for survivors Sunday a day after one of the biggest earthquakes in recorded history rocked Chile, killing more than 700 people while leaving untold numbers missing and 2 million displaced, wounded or otherwise affected.

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Huge 8.8-magnitude quake hits Chile

Sat, 27 Feb 2010 00:00:00 -0800

Reuters - Feb. 27 (News Report) - SANTIAGO, Chile (Reuters) - A massive magnitude-8.8 earthquake struck near the coast of south-central Chile early on Saturday, shaking buildings and causing blackouts in parts of the capital Santiago, 200 miles away.

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Chile Suffers Massive Earthquake

Sat, 27 Feb 2010 00:00:00 -0800

Wall Street Journal - By Jeff Fick, George Seal, Carolina Pica, Paulo Prada - Feb. 27 (News Report) - An 8.8 magnitude quake off the Chilean coast generated a tsunami with devastating potential. Eleven aftershocks have been reported, as well as at least 122 deaths. Tsunami alerts are issued for a wide area.

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