Peter Kornbluh

Peter Kornbluh directs the Cuba Documentation Project and the Chile Documentation Project at the National Security Archive (www.nsarchive.org), a public interest research center located at George Washington University (Washington, DC). He is co-author of The Iran-Contra Scandal: The Declassified History (New Press) and author of The Pinochet File: A Declassified Dossier on Atrocity and Accountability (New Press).

Currently

  • Chile's Turning Point

    January 17, 2010

    A victory by Sebastian Pinera in the Chilean marks a major turning point in the post-Pinochet transition, and a return to power of some of the hardcore rightists who collaborated with the military regime.

2009

  • Fujimori: Guilty as Charged

    April 7, 2009

    Peru's disgraced former president becomes the first democratically elected head of state to be extradited, tried and convicted of human rights crimes.

2008

  • The Day After Fidel

    February 20, 2008

    Most authoritarians leave office in a coup or a coffin. Fidel Castro is leaving on his own terms.

2007

2006

  • Test on Terrorism

    October 2, 2006

    The godfather of vicious anti-Castro violence, Luis Posada Carriles will soon be released from US custody. Is that any way to treat a terrorist?

2005

  • Pinochet's Week In Court

    September 22, 2005 Subscribe

    Chile's Supreme Court handed Augusto Pinochet both a victory and a blow with its recent rulings on Operation Columbo and Operation Condor.

  • The Posada File

    May 19, 2005

    Will the Bush Administration recognize that anti-Castro radical Luis Posada Carriles is a terrorist?

  • Letter From Chile

    January 13, 2005

    Pinochet's long road to justice.

2004

2003

  • Chile, 9/11/73

    September 11, 2003 Subscribe

    Declassified documents reveal the US government's role in the Pinochet coup.

2002

2001

2000

1999

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