Chile under Pinochet : recovering the truth / Mark Ensalaco.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Ensalaco, Mark.

Series:

Pennsylvania studies in human rights.

Pennsylvania studies in human rights

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Pinochet Ugarte, Augusto.

Human rights--Chile--History.

Human rights.

Political persecution--Chile.

Political persecution.

Victims of state-sponsored terrorism--Chile.

Victims of state-sponsored terrorism.

Disappeared persons--Chile.

Disappeared persons.

Military government--Chile--History.

Military government.

Chile--Politics and government--1973-1988.

Chile.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (299 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, c2000.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

"When the army comes out, it is to kill."-Augusto PinochetFollowing his bloody September 1973 coup d'état that overthrew President Salvador Allende, Augusto Pinochet, commander-in-chief of the Chilean Armed Forces and National Police, became head of a military junta that would rule Chile for the next seventeen years. The violent repression used by the Pinochet regime to maintain power and transform the country's political profile and economic system has received less attention than the Argentine military dictatorship, even though the Pinochet regime endured twice as long.In this primary study of Chile Under Pinochet, Mark Ensalaco maintains that Pinochet was complicit in the "enforced disappearance" of thousands of Chileans and an unknown number of foreign nationals. Ensalaco spent five years in Chile investigating the impact of Pinochet's rule and interviewing members of the truth commission created to investigate the human rights violations under Pinochet. The political objective of human rights organizations, Ensalaco contends, is to bring sufficient pressure to bear on violent regimes to induce them to end policies of repression. However, these efforts are severely limited by the disparities of power between human rights organizations and regimes intent on ruthlessly eliminating dissent.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Preface

Chapter 1. The Victors and the Vanquished

Chapter 2. An Invented War

Chapter 3. The New Order

Chapter 4. A War of Extermination

Chapter 5. The Court of World Opinion

Chapter 6. A War of Resistance

Chapter 7. The Peaceful Way to Democracy

Chapter 8. Recovering the Truth

Chapter 9. The Politics of Human Rights

Notes

Bibliography

Index

Acknowledgments

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references (p. [261]-268) and index.

ISBN:

1-283-21161-0

9786613211613

0-8122-0186-8

OCLC:

759158169