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...agency had hundreds of paramilitary operatives fomenting coups around the world. It was involved in assassination plots against the leaders of Congo, Cuba and Iraq and was linked by a 1976 Senate inquiry to ousters that resulted in the deaths of the leaders of the Dominican Republic, Vietnam and Chile. When Ronald Reagan wanted to roll back communism in the 1980s, the agency organized paramilitary operations in Central America. These adventures had checkered results. The governments that the CIA destabilized in Iran, Guatemala and Chile were replaced by repressive regimes that ended up doing more damage in the long...
Sept. 11, 1973 GENERAL AUGUSTO PINOCHET, left, deposes Chile's socialist President Salvador Allende, right, who commits suicide. The CIA, which had organized a failed coup in 1970, encouraged Pinochet but denies direct involvement to this...
...CHILE Graft Scandal Grows Former Public Works Minister Carlos Cruz, a longtime friend of President Ricardo Lagos, was charged with bribe taking in a growing scandal that has undermined the image of the country as Latin America's least corrupt. Five current ruling-party lawmakers are also facing graft charges, but Lagos denied the scandal constituted a crisis for his center-left government...
...University is also creating new Harvard-affiliated programs; the first one will be in Chile this spring. In this way, Harvard should not hesitate to create its own curricula in countries where existing programs are lacking. The newly-created Office of International Programs should broaden the range of these Harvard-sponsored initiatives, but it must also formalize credit for existing programs overseas...
Let’s Go currently publishes 41 student-written travel guides—including new guides this year on Chile, Costa Rica, Hawaii and Thailand...