The Pinochet Project is a journalist’s rendition of the Chilean memory struggle after the dictator, General Augusto Pinochet, left office in 1990.  Last summer, May-August 2010, I spent three months in Chile, interviewing subjects and reporting for the English-language newspaper, …

Chile’s Human Rights Museum Reopens
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Santiago’s Museum of Memory and Human Rights will reopen this Saturday after being closed to the public for nearly six months following February’s earthquake.

The museum …

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 …

Students gather in Plaza Italia to protest

1,000 Santiago high school students gathered to peacefully protest public transportation fees for students.

(4 August 2010) At 9:50 a.m., over 200 students marched, waving banners and beating drums, toward downtown Santiago in …

“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…

When I woke up this morning, I didn’t think I was about to be one of a dozen photojournalists ushered into Chilean president Sebastián Piñera’s receiving room as he shook hands with Colombia’s president-elect, Juan Manuel Santos.

During the morning …

The Estadio Nacional (National Stadium) was the first torture center established in Chile under the Pinochet regime in 1973.

Thousands of detainees passed through the stadium between 1973 and 1978, including my chilean host father, where today, soccer games and other events are held.  On May 30, the Estadio Nacional was open to the pubilc

Amnesty International just released its 2010 report on the status of human rights in countries around the world.  I attended a breakfast yesterday at the Chilean Amnesty International’s office with other members of the media, and then wrote up an article for today’s Santiago Times about what Amnesty International had to say about human rights in