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xi, 305 pages ; 24 cm On September 11, 1973, a military coup in Chile violently overthrew the socialist government of Salvadore Allende, beginning an era of political repression that lasted over sixteen years. Soldiers in a Narrow Land is a devastating account of the Pinochet regime that provides an inside look at the rise and slow disintegration of a brutal dictatorship. Mary Helen Spooner takes us behind the wall of censorship and propaganda, recounting vivid stories of persecution, struggle, and political rivalry. She traces the personal histories of key political figures, explains why many Chileans supported the regime, and reveals in stark detail the fate of many of its victims Pinochet himself was a reluctant participant in the 1973 coup, but quickly grew into the role of absolute dictator, disposing of potential military rivals as well as civilian dissidents. His notorious secret police were responsible for acts of terrorism at home and abroad, including the 1976 assassination of exiled Chilean minister Orlando Letelier and his American coworker in a car bombing in Washington, D.C. Spooner, who spent nine years in Chile working as a correspondent for such publications as New

Author

Spooner, Mary Helen

Publisher

Berkeley: University of California Press

Published

1999

Language

EN

ISBN

9780520080836

Subjects

Political Science, History, Humanities