Pascale Bonnefoy

GlobalPost

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Pascale Bonnefoy covers Chile for GlobalPost. She has contributed stories on political, economic, environmental, human rights and social events in Chile to local and international media. She has been stringer in Santiago for the Washington Post and correspondent for Latin America Press and Catholic News Service. Bonnefoy has worked as researcher and assistant producer for documentaries broadcast on CBS, Discovery Channel and PBS, and with local Chilean documentary and television producers. She has done considerable work as an independent investigative reporter and has been a freelance contributor to Chilean papers and magazines. She was international editor for the online paper El Mostrador and producer for the investigative journalism program "Contacto”, in Channel 13. She has taught investigative journalism at the University of Chile and the UNIACC University in Santiago and international journalism at the Vina del Mar University. More recently, she worked in the Public Information Section of the UN Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean in Santiago. She currently strings for the New York Times and coordinates Archivos Chile, a university-based organization that uses the transparency law to retrieve and publish information on Chile’s recent past. In 2005, she published the award-winning book "Terrorismo de Estadio" about operations at the National Stadium in Santiago, when it was used as a detention camp after the 1973 military coup. Bonnefoy graduated from George Washington University with a degree in international affairs, and she holds a journalism degree from the University of Santiago. She is currently pursuing a master's degree in international studies from the University of Chile.


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When the ‘disappeared’ return

Politics

The reappearance of a man feared killed by the Pinochet regime fuels doubts

The World

The rum rush

The World

An uncertain future

The World

Chile’s abortion debate

Lifestyle
The World

Chile and Cuba inch towards a better relationship

Agence France-Presse
The World

Chile reconsiders military spending provision

The country debates a law that directs copper export revenues to the military amid accusations of corruption.

The World

Chile’s secret laws

Agence France-Presse

Long after Pinochet’s rule, secret laws remain on the books in Chile.

The World

A love affair with Peruvian nannies

Agence France-Presse

Although many Chileans treat Peruvian immigrants with disdain, they prize their nannies.

Peruvians in Chile

Agence France-Presse
The World

Want legs with your coffee?

Agence France-Presse

In Santiago, unusual coffee establishments that showcase scantily clad women are cropping up.