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Fireworks light the sky while the portraits of persons who were disappeared and executed during the dictatorship of Augusto Pinochet are displayed on the stands of the National Stadium during a vigil marking the 50th anniversary of the 1973 military coup in Santiago, Chile on Sept. 11, 2023. (AP Photo/Esteban Felix)

Half a century later, the military junta still haunts Chile

Hernan Humana, York University, Canada and Amanda De Lisio, York University, Canada

Despite hosting the 2023 Pan American Games and electing a president with a progressive agenda, Chile continues to grapple with entrenched economic inequality.
President Ronald Reagan, shown here speaking in Moscow in 1980, was an early adopter of neoliberalism in the U.S. Dirck Halstead/Liaison

What is neoliberalism? A political scientist explains the use and evolution of the term

Anthony Kammas, USC Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences

The word ‘neoliberal’ gets thrown around a lot, often with differing and even contradictory meanings. Here, a political economist explains the origins and evolution of this complex concept.

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  1. Augusto Pinochet
  2. Chile
  3. Economics 101
  4. Foreign policy
  5. Friedrich Hayek
  6. Salvador Allende
  7. Socialism
  8. South America
  9. Torture

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