Six members of the congressional delegation serving the North, West or Northwest suburbs took trips abroad last year funded by special interest groups, federal documents show.
For decades, U.S. foreign policy has hinged on the idea that nations with strong democratic values and civilian-led militaries will be good partners in the global war on terror.
During the 16 years of Pinochet s reign, 1,100 people were officially registered as "forcibly disappeared." Only 104 bodies were ever found, although local communities put this figure much higher.
State-sponsored disappearance plays into the most primal of human fears – to vanish without a trace. The modern era started with Chile’s US-backed coup on September 11 1973
Chile under Pinochet was the experimenting ground for an economic project, neoliberalism, that inspired both Ronald Reagan and Margaret Thatcher. It was also a laboratory for torture and enforced disappearance of human beings, writes Brad Evans.
By Brad Evans
University of Bath
For the