"1. Bangladesh.... In 1971 ... Kissinger overrode all advice in order to support the Pakistani generals in both their civilian massacre policy in East Bengal and their armed attack on India from West P..."
- Christopher Hitchens
"In Santiago, the capital of the kingdom of Chile, at the moment of the great earthquake of 1647 in which many thousands lost their lives, a young Spaniard called Jeronimo Rugera was standing beside on..."
- Heinrich von Kleist
"There was something indomitable about Maria – like Britannia. He’d heard that she kept her head during a Chilean earthquake the year before when men of greater age and experience had panicked. Afterwa..."
- Sara Sheridan
"I read not so long ago about the construction of a large telescope in Chile's Atacama Desert, where rainfall can average a millimetre a year and the air is fifty times as dry as the air in Death Valle..."
- Brad Leithauser
"The experience taught him [Salvador Allende] too late that a system cannot be changed from the government but from the power."
- Gabriel García Márquez
"It’s an old story, amigo mío. Be careful of those closest to you because they can do the most damage."
- Theodore Jerome Cohen
"Arnold Harberger, Milton Friedman & Co. Inc., your modest proposal of partial equilibrium for the general good is not without its own internal contradictions. Moreover, you cannot take complete credit..."
- André Gunder Frank
"Laughing like crazythe child goes back to the citygives birth to monsterscreates earthquakeshairy women run nakedold folks who look like fetuses laugh and smoke."
- Nicanor Parra