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The Pinochet Project, Work »

[14 Apr 2011 | No Comment | ]

The Academic

Steve Stern: A history professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, Stern specializes in historical memory and political violence in Latin America. I was first introduced to his work in Chile when I read an excerpt from “Remembering Pinochet’s …

Chile, The Serious Blog, Work »

[27 Jul 2010 | 9 Comments | ]

“Pinochet’s arrest and court judgement was all a lie…Everything they say is leftist propaganda and it’s accepted as the true version of Chilean history today.”

Published in La Nación, 2009

Hermógenez Peréz de Arce sat in… Continue reading

Chile, The Serious Blog, Work »

[21 Jul 2010 | One Comment | ]
Hermógenes Peréz de Arce is a Chilean politician and journalist most famous, or infamous, for his column published since 1982 in El Mercurio, Chile’s leading newspaper.  Señor Peréz de Arce took, and continues to take, a public stance defending the former military dictator, General Augusto Pinochet, and  has been quoted as saying “Twentieth-century historians will remember  Pinochet as the best statesman Chile has ever seen” (elnavhegable.com, Cesar