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“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 Pakistan.... This led to a moral and political catastrophe the effects of which are still sorely felt. Kissinger鈥檚 undisclosed reason for the 鈥榯ilt鈥� was the supposed but never materialised 鈥榖rokerage鈥� offered by the dictator Yahya Khan in the course of secret diplomacy between Nixon and China.... Of the new state of Bangladesh, Kissinger remarked coldly that it was 鈥榓 basket case鈥� before turning his unsolicited expertise elsewhere.

2. Chile.... Kissinger had direct personal knowledge of the CIA鈥檚 plan to kidnap and murder General Ren茅 Schneider, the head of the Chilean Armed Forces ... who refused to countenance military intervention in politics. In his hatred for the Allende Government, Kissinger even outdid Richard Helms ... who warned him that a coup in such a stable democracy would be hard to procure. The murder of Schneider nonetheless went ahead, at Kissinger鈥檚 urging and with American financing, just between Allende鈥檚 election and his confirmation.... This was one of the relatively few times that Mr Kissinger (his success in getting people to call him 鈥楧octor鈥� is greater than that of most PhDs) involved himself in the assassination of a single named individual rather than the slaughter of anonymous thousands. His jocular remark on this occasion鈥斺€業 don鈥檛 see why we have to let a country go Marxist just because its people are irresponsible鈥欌€攕uggests he may have been having the best of times....

3. Cyprus.... Kissinger approved of the preparations by Greek Cypriot fascists for the murder of President Makarios, and sanctioned the coup which tried to extend the rule of the Athens junta (a favoured client of his) to the island. When despite great waste of life this coup failed in its objective, which was also Kissinger鈥檚, of enforced partition, Kissinger promiscuously switched sides to support an even bloodier intervention by Turkey. Thomas Boyatt ... went to Kissinger in advance of the anti-Makarios putsch and warned him that it could lead to a civil war. 鈥楽pare me the civics lecture,鈥� replied Kissinger, who as you can readily see had an aphorism for all occasions.

4. Kurdistan. Having endorsed the covert policy of supporting a Kurdish revolt in northern Iraq between 1974 and 1975, with 鈥榙eniable鈥� assistance also provided by Israel and the Shah of Iran, Kissinger made it plain to his subordinates that the Kurds were not to be allowed to win, but were to be employed for their nuisance value alone. They were not to be told that this was the case, but soon found out when the Shah and Saddam Hussein composed their differences, and American aid to Kurdistan was cut off. Hardened CIA hands went to Kissinger ... for an aid programme for the many thousands of Kurdish refugees who were thus abruptly created.... The apercu of the day was: 鈥榝oreign policy should not he confused with missionary work.鈥� Saddam Hussein heartily concurred.

5. East Timor. The day after Kissinger left Djakarta in 1975, the Armed Forces of Indonesia employed American weapons to invade and subjugate the independent former Portuguese colony of East Timor. Isaacson gives a figure of 100,000 deaths resulting from the occupation, or one-seventh of the population, and there are good judges who put this estimate on the low side. Kissinger was furious when news of his own collusion was leaked, because as well as breaking international law the Indonesians were also violating an agreement with the United States.... Monroe Leigh ... pointed out this awkward latter fact. Kissinger snapped: 鈥楾he Israelis when they go into Lebanon鈥攚hen was the last time we protested that?鈥� A good question, even if it did not and does not lie especially well in his mouth.

It goes on and on and on until one cannot eat enough to vomit enough.”
― Christopher Hitchens

“Laughing like crazy
the child goes back to the city
gives birth to monsters
creates earthquakes
hairy women run naked
old folks who look like fetuses laugh and smoke.”
― Nicanor Parra, Emergency poems

“El topo es un animal que cava galer铆as bajo la tierra buscando el sol y a veces su camino lo lleva a la superficie: cuando ve el sol, queda ciego.”
― Alejandro Jodorowsky

“El exiliado mira hacia el pasado, lami茅ndose las heridas; el inmigrante
mira hacia el futuro, dispuesto a aprovechar las oportunidades a su alcance.”
― Isabel Allende, My Invented Country: A Nostalgic Journey Through Chile

“I believe that evil is directly proportional to idiocy. I believe that the territory you roamed in anguish before you disappeared is ruled by idiots. It isn鈥檛 true that criminals are masterminds. It takes a vast amount of stupidity to assemble the parts of such grotesque, absurd, and cruel machinery. Pure brutality disguised as a masterplan. Small people, with small minds, who don鈥檛 understand the abyss of the other. They lack the language or tools for it. Empathy and compassion require a clear mind. Putting yourself in someone else鈥檚 shoes, changing your skin, adopting a new face: these are all acts of genuine intelligence.”
― Nona Fern谩ndez, The Twilight Zone

“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 one of the pillars in the prison to which he had been committed on a criminal charge, and he was about to hang himself.”
― Heinrich von Kleist, Kleist: Selected Writings

“La libert脿 猫 uno stato di grazia e si 猫 liberi solo mentre si lotta per conquistarla.”
― Luis Sep煤lveda, A sombra do que fomos

“We fought for centuries to wrest our land from Moors, only to free ourselves by turning into the slaves of war. Deprived by victory of combat, we sailed far horizons in search of carnage and found the Indies. Now we must save them from our past.”
― John Caviglia, Arauco

“Me sent铆a segura de su amor, que para m铆 era tan natural como el agua de la lluvia.”
― Isabel Allende, In茅s of My Soul

“Nadie protestaba; los trabajadores aplastados hab铆an perdido sus derechos, pod铆an ser despedidos en cualquier momento y agradec铆an cualquier sueldo, porque en la puerta hab铆a una fila de desempleados esperando que les dieran una oportunidad. Era el para铆so de los empresarios. La versi贸n oficial era de un pa铆s ordenado, limpio, apaciguado, que iba camino a la prosperidad. Pensaba en los torturados, los muertos, los rostros de los hombres que conoci贸 en prisi贸n y los que desaparecieron.”
― Isabel Allende, A Long Petal of the Sea

“two thousand or more Spaniards sailing toward that long, narrow South American country that clung to the mountains so as not to topple into the sea.”
― Isabel Allende, A Long Petal of the Sea

“Ol铆a a caballo y sudor, nunca me hab铆a parecido tan guapo, tan fuerte, tan m铆o.”
― Isabel Allende, In茅s of My Soul

“Una de las cosas que siempre me han sorprendido de Chile es la aversi贸n que sentimos por la cordillera. No habitamos las monta帽as.”
― Benjam铆n Labatut, When We Cease to Understand the World

“Old women like Peta Ponce have the power to fold time over and confuse it, they multiply and divide it, events are refracted in their gnarled hands as in the most brilliant prism, they cut the consecutive happening of things into fragments they arrange in parallel form, they bend those fragments and twist them into shapes that enable them to carry out their designs.”
― Jos茅 Donoso, The Obscene Bird of Night

“In dreams, as in memory, there is no agreement, nor should there be.”
― Nona Fern谩ndez, Space Invaders

“Confieso que nada de esto sucedi贸 verdaderamente. Pero debo recuperar la primera mirada, narrar de alguna forma la aparici贸n de ese nombre en mi vida.”
― Mauricio Wacquez, Frente A Un Hombre Armado:

“If nothing saves us from death, at least love should save us from life.”
― Pablo Neruda

“The conquistador has no real appreciation of the new, wanting only to make his fortune and return to build an ugly palace towering the pigsty of his birth, but not before he does his best to transform the Indies into the nightmare they left behind.”
― John Caviglia, Arauco

“In the Atacama, I saw the future, when the sun eats up the last of its hydrogen and burns into its red-giant phase, big enough to cook life and clouds and oceans off this naked orb. It wouldn't be a fast process, not by our standards. Millions of years in the execution, our sky would finally be half filled by a sun the color of a red-hot moonrise. After that, the sun would probably collapse into a white dwarf, meanwhile blasting away its outer shells of gas into an explosive planetary nebula. I imagine that all of our minerals will pay off as we make a rainbow streak flaring off into space. We will be beautiful.”
― Craig Childs, Apocalyptic Planet: Field Guide to the Ever-Ending Earth

“Las viejas como la Peta Ponce tienen el poder de plegar y confundir el tiempo, lo multiplican y lo dividen, los acontecimientos se refractan en sus manos verrugosas como en el prisma m谩s brillante, cortan el suceder consecutivo en trozos que disponen en forma paralela, curvan esos trozos y los enroscan organizando estructuras que les sirven para que se cumplan sus designios.”
― Jos茅 Donoso, The Obscene Bird of Night

“Cook had seen an avocado before, but not like this---so smooth, so green. The fruit took an express route to the greenhouse, where workers propagated the seeds, first in soil, and then suspended slightly in water. Fairchild had included written instructions that only mature trees would fruit, after several years, not months. He advised that as soon as the seedlings grew reasonable roots, they should be shipped to experiment stations in California to be shared with farmers interested in experimental crops.
Cook complied, and then mostly forgot about the avocado.
In California, that single shipment helped build an industry. Other avocados turned up as well, from travelers or tourists who packed the oversized seeds as souvenirs. There were one-off stories that avocados had been spotted in America before, in Hollywood in 1886 or near Miami in 1894. But none were as sturdy as Fairchild's Chilean variety, prized for its versatility, color, and flavor---r茅sum茅 of strong pedigree. Fairchild's avocado would turn out to be a mix of a Guatemalan avocado and a Mexican avocado and to have been only a short-term tenant in Chilean soil before Fairchild picked it up. But as with most popular fruits, the true geographic origin faded into irrelevance.
Farmers and early geneticists dissected this sample and ones that came after it to create newer cultivars attuned to more specialized climates or tastes. This work yielded a twentieth-century variety called Fuerte, Spanish for "strong," growable in the coldest conditions ever tested on an avocado. It fell from favor after proving unable to ship even modest distances without bruising.”
― Daniel Stone, The Food Explorer: The True Adventures of the Globe-Trotting Botanist Who Transformed What America Eats

“Y es que en ciertas ocasiones los fracasos ayudan a cimentar alternativas 辫辞濒铆迟颈肠补s para el futuro.”
― Claudio Fuentes, La transici贸n inacabada. El proceso pol铆tico chileno 1990-2020

“La historia y la heroicidad son medallas, casi en exclusiva, reservadas para las elites”
― Bruno Polack, La ciudad que no existe

“... Leggevo, leggevo, leggevo.
Ampliare le proprie conoscenze 猫 un dramma ... "perch茅 ogni passo in pi霉 che fai ti rende sempre pi霉 cosciente di quanto ancora ti manca da conoscere.
E ti ritrovi sempre pi霉 lontano dalla soddisfazione delle tue curiosit脿 ...
E alla fine la pila di libri sul comodino continua a crescere e non basterebbero nemmeno dieci anni ..."

(Pagina 71)”
― Marcela Serrano, Para que no me olvides

“... i tuoi romanzi ... sono sempre rimasti in camera da letto, umilmente, accanto a te; li prendevi in prestito oppure, quando li compravi, li regalavi subito, desiderosa com'eri di passare ad altri il piacere di quelle letture.
...

(pagina 78)”
― Marcela Serrano, Para que no me olvides

“this does not conform to the reality I am observing”
― Gonzalo Lira

“La poes铆a es el vocablo virgen de todo prejuicio; el verbo creado y
creador, la palabra reci茅n nacida. Ella se desarrolla en el alba primera
del mundo. Su precisi贸n no consiste en denominar las cosas, sino en
no alejarse del alba.
Su vocabulario es infinito porque ella no cree en la certeza de
todas sus posibles combinaciones. Y su rol es convertir las
probabilidades en certeza. Su valor est谩 marcado por la distancia que
va de lo que vemos a lo que imaginamos. Para ella no hay pasado ni
futuro.
El poeta crea fuera del mundo que existe el que debiera existir. Yo
tengo derecho a querer ver una flor que anda o un reba帽o de ovejas
atravesando el arco iris, ...
...
Las c茅lulas del poeta est谩n amasadas en el primer dolor y
guardan el ritmo del primer espasmo. En la garganta del poeta el
universo busca su voz, una voz inmortal.
...
Toda Poes铆a v谩lida tiende al 煤ltimo l铆mite de la imaginaci贸n. Y no
s贸lo de la imaginaci贸n, sino del esp铆ritu mismo, porque la poes铆a no es
otra cosa que el 煤ltimo horizonte, que es, a su vez, la arista en donde
los extremos se tocan, en donde no hay contradicci贸n ni duda. Al
llegar a ese lindero final el encadenamiento habitual de los fen贸menos
rompe su l贸gica, y al otro lado, en donde empiezan las tierras del
poeta, la cadena se rehace en una l贸gica nueva.
...
Hay en su garganta un incendio inextinguible.
Hay adem谩s ese balanceo de mar entre dos estrellas.
Y hay ese Fiat Lux que lleva clavado en su lengua.”
― Vicente Huidobro, Manifestes:

“Al menos 茅ste es un sentimiento que se adec煤a bien con la vida melanc贸lica de las casas de campo, con esas horas prolongadas del crep煤sculo cuando a煤n no se encienden las l谩mparas y, sobre todo, con los domingos.”
― Mauricio Wacquez, Frente A Un Hombre Armado:

“Ask any child from Chile to sketch something, anything at all. Before any human figure, a cloud, a tree, they'll fill the upper space with an array of jagged peaks.”
― Ariel Dorfman, Feeding on Dreams: Confessions of an Unrepentant Exile

“Hubiera sido mejor echarle la culpa a la poes铆a, pero habr铆a sido mentira porque ah铆 est谩n esos poemas que acababa de leer, poemas que demuestran que la poes铆a si sirve para algo, que las palabras duelen, vibran, curan, consuelan, repercuten, permanecen.”
― alejandro zambra alia trabucco zeran