John Dinges

A Chilean centrist sees a possible victory for the left in Jeanette Jara--assuming she leads with her authentic charisma and not with her party. She is the social democrat alternative to the Trumpist right (Kast).

Wall Street Journal on "Chile in Their Hearts," which definitively investigates the murders of Charles Horman and Frank Teruggi: "Conclusions are triumphs of intellectual honesty." wsj.com/arts-culture/b…

@jg_valdes El hombre que debia haber sido presidente de Chile

Recordándolo el día de su cumpleaños. 106.

Join me tonight in Santa Monica to discuss "Chile in Their Hearts." Hosted by @SuziWeissman , host @KPFK , and begins at 6:30 pm PT at @DIESELBrentwood

Review of Chile in “Their Hearts”. Dinges “deeply implicates the US government in creating the conditions for the coup, actively doing what it could to destroy the Chilean economy, and ultimately insuring that the coup would occur.” “Nuanced” storytelling. counterpunch.org/2025/05/07/kil…

Artículo importante por Carolina Jiménez de WOLA. elfaro.net/en/202505/opin…

Foreign Affairs on John Dinges’s new book, Chile in Their Hearts: The Untold Story of Two Americans Who Went Missing After the Coup. “Courageous…”foreignaffairs.com/reviews/chile-… via @ForeignAffairs

harvard.edu/research-fundi… Harvard to Trump: Drop Dead. The first university to say the morally obvious: we will not comply.

Interview on my investigative methods used in my book Chile in Their Hearts. The problems when you contradict the “official story”. connectas.org/labs/investiga…

Dictatorships pass. It requires courageous journalism, human rights documentation and the guts to resist. Sheila Coronel shows how it happened in the Philippines. “Duterte: On the arrest of an autocrat.” cjr.org/world/duterte-… via @cjr

@FrankenforIowa @ChuckGrassley @SenJoniErnst I had coffee with Jack Kibbie in Emmetsburg last September. He was in great form, joking after a hand of cribbage with his old friend John Spies, who had been the Republican county chairman. Lifelong political buddies, of opposite parties, doing something good for Iowa.

Senator Grassley, do something good for Iowa while you still can. Be more like Jack Kibbie. Sen Ernst, just do something. Anything will do. @ChuckGrassley @SenJoniErnst

Spytalk’s Mike Isikoff on Tulsi Gabbard’s choice of a conspiracy theorist Israel critic to be the president’s likely daily briefer. open.substack.com/pub/spytalk/p/…

US Officer: “America has a rogue president and a rogue administration, and we need to acknowledg e that and respond.” nytimes.com/2025/02/24/opi… via @NYTOpinion

Kristi Noem is a hat act.

Vietnam, where America got used to losing. If you’re old enough to remember you gotta read Henry Allen’s piece in SpyTalk. open.substack.com/pub/spytalk/p/…

2 Sheinbaum: “If there is anywhere that such an alliance [with Mexican cartels] in fact exists, it is in the United States gun factories that sell high-powered weapons to these criminal groups.”

Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum wrote on X. “We categorically reject the White House’s slanderous claim that the Mexico government has alliances with criminal organizations, as well as any attempt to intervene in our territory. …

@ChuckGrassley Sheinbaum adds: “If there is anywhere that such an alliance in fact exists, it is in the United States gun factories that sell high-powered weapons to these criminal groups.”

Good news on Mexico tariff pause for 1 month Hopefully negotiating will preempt more talk of tariffs

@ChuckGrassley President Sheinbaum is handling this well,saying: Jornada) “We categorically reject the White House’s slanderous claim that the Mexico government has alliances with criminal organizations, as well as any attempt to intervene in our territory,” …

I’m looking to connect with anyone who was in Chile during the Allende/Popular Unity period. I was there ‘72-‘78, experienced the coup and stayed to write about the dictatorship. Pls send this around, and preorder My new book, Chile in Their Hearts: buscalibre.us/libro-chile-in…