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Chilean Ex-Allende government Cabinet Minister Carlos Briones (C) partly obscured by microphone,  speaking to a crowd during the memorial organised by the Communist and Socialist parties on the 12th anniversary of the death of the deposed Socialist President Salvadore Allende (Photo by Robert Nickelsberg/Getty Images)

How public influence over economic matters is eroded

The experience of Chile’s Salvador Allende illustrates how the private sphere and superpowers control investment and natural resource exploitation

Plaza de la Constituicion (Constitution Square) – Santiago, Chile – Photo: Getty Images

The bewildering vote in Chile that rejected a new constitution

Did compulsory voting give evangelicals the opportunity to trash progressive reforms?

September 11 tribute in light beams viewed across the East River from Brooklyn, 2014. (Andrew Cribb/Alamy Stock Photo)

Did 9/11 really change everything? It’s hard to tell if you’re brown

Witnessing 9/11 in New York, the fear and the unity, no one could agree if we were entering a new world, or a depressingly familiar one

Probe confirms suicide of Chile’s Salvador Allende

Experts studying the remains of Salvador Allende concluded the former president committed suicide.

Allende’s body taken from Chile tomb for autopsy

Allende’s body taken from Chile tomb for autopsy

The remains of deposed Chilean president Salvador Allende have been removed from his tomb to determine if he committed suicide or was assassinated.

Judge orders Chilean president exhumed

A Chilean judge ordered the remains of former president Salvador Allende exhumed for an investigation into whether he was murdered in a 1973 coup.

Anti-apartheid campaigner rejects SA award

A New Zealand anti-apartheid campaigner has rejected a nomination for a South African award, saying he is dismayed over conditions in the country. John Minto was the national…

The undefeated

Master of the middlebrow or late magical-realist? Isabel Allende discusses her writing with Aida Edermariam