John Dinges
@jdinges
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Journalist, author, writes on Latin America. Author Chile in Their Hearts (2025), Amigo de Chile (condecoración O’Higgins) Washington Post, NPR, Columbia U.
Washington, DC
Joined September 2009
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).
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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.".
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U.S. agents have long been accused of complicity in the murder of two Americans in Chile. A two-decade investigation suggests the claim is false.
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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.
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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
As they often did, the headlines in the New York Times brought more bad news the morning of September 12, 1973: “Allende Out, Reported Suicide. Marxist
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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…”via @ForeignAffairs.
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With his unique credibility on the topic, Dinges eschews ideological presumptions for a dogged, comprehensive investigation of the execution of two young Americans in Chile following the ruthless...
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Harvard to Trump: Drop Dead. The first university to say the morally obvious: we will not comply.
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Interview on my investigative methods used in my book Chile in Their Hearts. The problems when you contradict the “official story”.
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John Dinges desenterró un crimen de Estado ocurrido hace más de 40 años en Chile
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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.” via @cjr.
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Journalists, lawyers, clergy, and human rights activists persisted in the Philippines, even when hope for accountability seemed nonexistent.
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Spytalk’s Mike Isikoff on Tulsi Gabbard’s choice of a conspiracy theorist Israel critic to be the president’s likely daily briefer.
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US Officer: “America has a rogue president and a rogue administration, and we need to acknowledg e that and respond.” via @NYTOpinion.
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The firing of three judge advocate generals is one more element of this administration’s attack on the rule of law.
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Vietnam, where America got used to losing. If you’re old enough to remember you gotta read Henry Allen’s piece in SpyTalk.
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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.”.
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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. ….
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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:
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Frederick Forsyth, perhaps ill informed, writes erroneously that Chile’s Salvador Allende created the notorious secret police DINA. In fact it was the dictator Pinochet, who ordered DINA to torture and kill thousands of Allende sympathizers. #Truth
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Pedro Alejandro Matta sets the record straight. Frederick Forsyth is famous for his gripping portrayals of spies, assassins, and the assorted heroes and villains of the Cold War. Some of his b…
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From MA, on life. "Duration: momentary. Nature: changeable. Perception: dim. Body: decaying. Soul: spinning. The body and its parts are a river, the soul a dream and mist, life is warfare and a journey far from home, lasting reputation is oblivion. Our only guide: philosophy".
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Chile in Their Hearts.The Untold Story of Two Americans Who Went Missing after the Coup.John Dinges.Set against the romance of revolution and the terror of a military coup, this arresting mystery is also exposes the callousness of U.S. foreign policy.
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In 1972 two idealistic young Americans, Charles Horman and Frank Teruggi, arrived in Chile to participate in President Salvador Allende's socialist and democratic revolution. A year later they were...
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