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The Scottish arts centre showing freedom films amid right-wing rise

A CELEBRATED film about Scottish workers who refused to work on Chilean plane parts due to the atrocities committed by the Pinochet dictatorship…

The National (Scotland)

‘I was censored for a long time’: the woman who photographed Chile’s sex workers and dissidents

From brothels to boxing rings, Paz Errázuriz’s tender images always challenged the Pinochet dictatorship. Now 81 years old – and ahead of a UK show – the spiky-haired artist recounts a career spent on the fringes

The Guardian - UK

Tuesday briefing: What Trump’s response to the LA protests could mean for US democracy

In today’s newsletter: A lauded human rights lawyer on the anti-immigration protests in Los Angeles – and just what is at stake

The Guardian - UK

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Getting away with it … sort of. How a dictator and a fugitive Nazi advanced international human rights law

Pinochet and Rauff? They were alike. Each had two faces. One gentle, the other hard. They were joined.

The Conversation

The Battle By Chile Torture Site Dwellers To Remain

With its pristine swimming pool, manicured lawns and lush forest backdrop, Villa Baviera, a German-themed settlement of 122 souls in southern Chile, looks like the perfect holiday getaway.

International Business Times

38 Londres Street by Philippe Sands review – Pinochet and the Nazis

A human rights lawyer skilfully gathers the threads that link the former Chilean dictator to a fugitive SS officer

The Guardian - UK

‘The law is another form of storytelling’: Philippe Sands in conversation with Juan Gabriel Vásquez

When Chilean dictator Augusto Pinochet was arrested in London in 1998, lawyer Philippe Sands was part of the prosecution. As his book about the case comes out, he talks to the Colombian novelist about literature and justice

The Guardian - UK

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38 Londres Street: On Impunity, Pinochet in England and a Nazi in Patagonia by Philippe Sands review – war crimes revisited

In the final part of a bravura trilogy detailing the struggle to bring war criminals to account, Sands tracks a former SS commander to Chile, where he found a friend in Augusto Pinochet

The Guardian - UK

Wendy Tyndale obituary

Other lives: Campaigner for human rights in Latin America who explored the role of religion in development

The Guardian - UK

Court loss for accused Pinochet agent over extradition

A Chilean woman who later worked as a Bondi nanny is fighting extradition back to her homeland to face historical allegations of kidnapping and torture.

AAP

Latin America is moving fast to protect democracy from excesses of big tech

Bosses of tech giants Meta, Google and X had front row seats at Donald Trump’s recent presidential inauguration. This special treatment highlighted the increasingly cosy relationship between leaders of technology companies and the White House.

The Conversation

The Rest is History co-host writing Margaret Thatcher opera

Dominic Sandbrook working with composer Joseph Phibbs on project that will explore Thatcher’s time as PM

The Guardian - UK

Many of Israel’s Western supporters indicate they would arrest Netanyahu. Will Australia and NZ follow suit?

Ever since the October 7 2023 Hamas terrorist attack on Israel, the Albanese government has consistently said Australia respects Israel’s right to defend itself, but how it does so matters.

The Conversation

Eva Vergara, longtime AP Chile correspondent, dies at 68

Former AP correspondent in Chile, Eva Vergara, who covered stories including the first protests against the dictatorship of Gen. Augusto Pinochet and revealed key information about abuses by members of the Catholic Church, died on Tuesday

The Independent UK

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Salon

The MAGA right actually hates America

Why do conservatives wrap themselves in the flag so desperately? Maybe because their ideas are un-American

The Guardian - UK

Maduro intent on third term as 1,600 perceived opponents languish in cells

Nearly a month after the Venezuelan president’s roundup many expect him to ride out the threats to his 11-year rule

The Guardian - US

‘Walls are where we communicate’: how murals paint Chile’s politics

Alejandro ‘Mono’ González has used walls as his political voice for six decades in Chile, a ‘nation of muralists’

The Conversation

Trump’s promotion of an image of strength after assassination attempt borrows from authoritarian playbook

In the days since the attempted assassination of Donald Trump, supporters of the former president have used the incident to project an image of power.

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The Guardian - US

Chile’s stolen children: a new effort offers hope to Pinochet-era international adoptees

Thousands of children were adopted abroad during the Pinochet dictatorship – many in murky circumstances

The Independent UK

Stolen at birth, an adoptee sues Chile over thousands of similar dictatorship-era crimes

A Chilean-American raised in the United States has filed a criminal complaint against the state of Chile alleging that it engaged in a systematic plan to steal thousands of babies from perceived enemies of the state in the 1970s and 1980s

Total Film

35 must-see Netflix original movies

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WEKU

Venezuela orders the closure of its embassy in Ecuador

Venezuela's president ordered the closure of his country's embassy in Ecuador in solidarity with Mexico in its protest over a raid by Ecuadorian authorities on the Mexican embassy in Quito.

Latin Times

Mexico Plans to Bring Ecuador Embassy Raid to the International Court of Justice

The Ecuadorian police raided Mexico's embassy in Quito on Friday to arrest former VP Jorge Glas

The Guardian - AU

Refugees risk being stripped of protection under ‘draconian’ Labor deportation bill, opponents say

Greens immigration spokesperson says bill expands ministerial power to reverse protection findings and deport people previously granted asylum

WEKU

Series of recent DOJ cases show foreign operatives plotting assassinations in U.S.

State-sponsored assassination plots on U.S. soil may sound like the stuff of movies, but the Department of Justice says it has foiled four such cases since 2022.

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