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Pining for Pinochet: how crime fanned nostalgia for Chile’s dictator
One Saturday morning in September, four men burst into Miguel Angel Bravo's home in a quiet, middle-class neighborhood of Chile's capital Santiago. The 61-year-old accountant, who lives with his wife and daughter, had activated an alarm and put a padlock on the gate the night before. But four armed attackers easily overcame those defenses to
Criminals raided Miguel Ángel Bravo’s house in a high-middle-class neighborhood in Santiago one morning, took his car and beat him with a iron in his head. “They take your peace of mind,” this 61-year-old accountant tells AFP. Security is the main concern of the Chileans and drives the ultra-right in the November 16 presidential election. In the face of the crime, several people longed for dictator Augusto Pinochet, almost 20 years after his dea…
Juan Pablo Cárdenas S. In Argentina, President Milei and his party Freedom Advance imposed comfortably on Peronism and Kirchnerism. But, despite the mandatory suffrage, only 66 percent of the voters attended the polls, marking an abstention that can be interpreted (taking the white and null votes) as an expression of popular rejection of the whole class or political caste. The advantage of the ruling party is explained a lot in the brazen interv…
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