Augusto Pinochet's death closes an era in Chile but leaves a nation still split over the ex-dictator's legacy, reports Justin Vogler in Santiago.
General Augusto Pinochet,
"What's the difference between Diet Coke and Pepsi Max?", Joseph Stiglitz asked as he gazed perplexedly at the drinks machine in the foyer of a London
The knife-edge and still contested win for the conservative Partido de Acción Nacional candidate, Felipe Calderón, in the Mexican elections on 2 July 2006 is yet another sign that two
Chile's Michelle Bachelet shone during her week-long, three-country visit to Europe in May 2006. Europe's leaders and press hailed the president of four months as a
The news that Ollanta Humala was leading in the opinion polls, ahead of Peru's first-round presidential elections on Sunday 9 April, set alarm bells ringing in Washington and
As hundreds of leaders and dignitaries descended on the Chilean port of Valparaiso on 11 March 2006 for Michelle Bachelet's inauguration, much of the world's press
Two books by former senior British public officials about the diplomacy surrounding the Iraq war have caused media waves and political embarrassment in recent months. Sir Christopher Meyer, former British
Michelle Bachelet, the 54-year-old paediatrician who once described herself as incarnating “all the capital sins: socialist, my father’s daughter, divorced and an agnostic”, is set to become Chile’s
