Heat Up Your Kitchen -- With Chile Peppers Sep 26, 2007
On The Early Show Tuesday, Cortina gave the background and history of chile peppers, then shared some hot recipes. CHILE PEPPERS 101. (CBS News -- Early Show)
Edwards: Pinochet's Blood Bath Dec 22, 2006
the single-minded ferocity of the coup and the subsequent deliberate use of torture, 'disappearances' and murder had at that time no parallel in the history of Chile or Latin America, a continent with a long experience of dictatorship and military brutality". (Quoted, Curtis, op. cit, p.130) CIIR described how the Pinochet regime instigated a "policy of permanent terror. " (Ibid, p.131) When Kissinger was told of initial reports of massacres following the coup he responded: "I think we... (Zmag.org)
US CIA engineered coup that brought General Pinochet to power in ... Dec 13, 2006
The Chilean coup of 1973 against the democratically elected socialist Popular Unity government of President Salvador Allende was engineered by the American Central Intelligence Agency on the instructions of then-US Republican President Richard M. Nixon and then-Secretary of State Henry Kissinger, was a watershed event in the history of Chile and the Cold War. Many years later Kissinger said that the CIA had spent only $ 12 million to destabilise Allendes government by, among other things,... (The News - International)
A man who hated government (29) Nov 18, 2006
But this history of Chile should cause all of us to pause when reading yet another glowing tribute. . (Salon)
Bachelet elected as Chile's 1st woman president Jan 16, 2006
She was named minister of health in March 2000 and became minister of defense in January 2002, the first woman to hold the post in the history of Chile and Latin America. Her father, Alberto Bachelet, was a brigadier general, who died in prison in March 1974 as a victim of torture for opposing the regime of former military ruler Augusto Pinochet. (Xinhuanet, China)
