By Amelia Hill, The Guadian, 13.04.2013 

‘Thatcher was trying to smash everything that had helped us’ … Isabel Cortes, 41. (Photograph: Sean Smith for the Guardian). 

Isabel Cortes was born in 1972, and came to England as a refugee from Chile when she was five. Arriving with her mother and stepfather, both passionate trade unionists who had to leave because of persecution under the Pinochet government, she remembers how the country that took her family to its heart was even then in the act of being dismantled.

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“I arrived, along with my familiy, from Chile as political exiles in 1978. We fled Pinochet’s facist dictatorship, and were greeted in the UK by a Labour party which still felt like Labour, trade unionists who still had a movement to be proud of, and ordinary working class folk who still had the self-belief to open their arms out to ‘foreigners’. Read the rest of this entry »

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Alejandro Rebossio, Buenos Aires. ElPaís. 05.03.2013

Por primera vez, la justicia latinoamericana juzgará como conjunto a los responsables del Plan Cóndor, la cooperación entre las dictaduras de Argentina, Bolivia, Brasil, Chile, Paraguay, Perú y Uruguay, para perseguir y eliminar opositores en las décadas del 70 y 80.

Hasta ahora solo se habían sentenciado a los culpables de cuatro de los cientos de víctimas de esa operación.

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