In September of 1973, the Chilean Army marched on the Presidential Palace in Santiago and ousted the popularly elected socialist president, Salvador Allende. What followed was brutal repression, murder and torture, as General Augusto Pinochet seized control and ruled with an iron fist for the next seventeen years. At the time democracy was lost in […]
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Ten years ago, China embarked on a major effort to increase its economic power and influence across Asia, Africa, and into Europe. The name of this program came from Xi Jinping, China’s president, when he spoke of building an “economic belt” along the “silk road” that was the land route to China for many centuries
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In 1883 the small volcanic island of Krakatoa in Indonesia, exploded with a force 13,000 times greater than the atomic bomb dropped on Hiroshima, Japan, during World War II. Although not considered the deadliest eruption in recorded history, it was the first natural disaster that was felt worldwide and whose cause was known. The majority
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