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It is not common for an OECD county to shoot and kill 16 people in two days of socially motivated riots. (Perhaps only Turkey, in its unending wars against the Kurdish guerilla, comes close to that level of violence.) This is however what Chilean government, the poster child of neoliberalism and transition to democracy, did last week in the beginning of protests that do not show the signs of subsiding despite cosmetic reforms proposed by President Sebastian Piñera.The fall from grace of...

At the opening ceremony, Mr Putin said: "An unequivocal and clear assessment of the repression will help to prevent it being repeated." "This terrible past must not be erased from our national memory and cannot be justified by anything." BBC NewsWall of Grief: Putin opens first Soviet victims memorialSee also Yesterday (30 October), Vladimir Putin attended the unveiling of the ‘Wall of Grief’, a monument erected in Moscow to the victims of communist repression. This is the third major such...

American soft power takes another hit, coming soon after the torchlight march in Charlottesville reminiscent of the rise of the Nazis in Germany in the lead up to WWII. The London EconomicTrump pardons Arpaio: This is his human rights record Jack Peat Donald Trump’s pardon elevates Arpaio once again to the pantheon of those who see institutional racism as something that made America great. Arizona Republic Editorial