In January 1974, Eqbal Ahmad wrote minister of Education in the Netherlands to inform him of the establishment of the Transnational Institute in Amsterdam. This is the original letter.
Treading into a political and diplomatic confrontation it tried to avoid, the US has decided to declassify some secret government documents on the killing and torture conducted by the former Chilean dictator, Augusto Pinochet.
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