Prisoner Of Pinochet

Download Prisoner Of Pinochet full books in PDF, epub, and Kindle. Read online Prisoner Of Pinochet ebook anywhere anytime directly on your device. Fast Download speed and no annoying ads. We cannot guarantee that every ebooks is available!

Prisoner of Pinochet

Author : Sergio Bitar
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780299313739
Total Pages : 157 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (137 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Book Synopsis Prisoner of Pinochet by : Sergio Bitar

Download or read book Prisoner of Pinochet written by Sergio Bitar and published by . This book was released on 2017 with total page 157 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: September 11, 1973: Chilean military forces under General Augusto Pinochet overthrew the elected government of President Salvador Allende, bombing the presidential palace with the president inside. Minister of Mining Sergio Bitar was forcibly detained along with other members of the Allende cabinet and confined on bleak, frigid Dawson Island in the Magellan Straits. Prisoner of Pinochet is the gripping first-person chronicle of Bitar's year as a political prisoner before being expelled from Chile; a poignant narrative of men held captive together in a labor camp under harsh conditions, only able to guess at their eventual fate; and an insightful memoir of the momentous events of the early 1970s that led to seventeen years of bloody authoritarian rule in Chile. Available in English for the first time, this edition includes maps and photos from the 1970s and contextual notes by historian Peter Winn.

Prisoner of Pinochet

Author : Sergio Bitar
Publisher : University of Wisconsin Pres
ISBN 13 : 0299313700
Total Pages : 181 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (993 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Book Synopsis Prisoner of Pinochet by : Sergio Bitar

Download or read book Prisoner of Pinochet written by Sergio Bitar and published by University of Wisconsin Pres. This book was released on 2017-12-12 with total page 181 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A gripping account of daily life as a political prisoner by a former Chilean cabinet minister, offering personal insight into the political climate and historical events of 1970s Chile under military dictator Augusto Pinochet.

Pinochet

Author : Hugh O'Shaughnessy
Publisher : NYU Press
ISBN 13 : 9780814762011
Total Pages : 198 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (62 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Book Synopsis Pinochet by : Hugh O'Shaughnessy

Download or read book Pinochet written by Hugh O'Shaughnessy and published by NYU Press. This book was released on 2000-03 with total page 198 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Near midnight on October 16, 1998, officers of Scotland Yard entered the London hospital room of former Chilean dictator Augusto Pinochet and arrested him on charges of torturing and murdering Spanish citizens. The arrest sent shockwaves around the world, delighting his detractors and the families of his regime's victims, and dismaying his supporters, including Margaret Thatcher. It marked the first time a former head of state had been detained outside his own country on charges of crimes against humanity, and thus signaled a clear warning to former dictators and heads of abusive regimes. Through interviews, eyewitness accounts, and new sources, veteran journalist Hugh O'Shaughnessy here sifts through the General's personal life, rise to power, and arrest and internment. In clear, unforgiving prose, Pinochet: The Politics of Torture tells the riveting story of legal intrigue behind the search for justice.

Chile

Author : Jacobo Timerman
Publisher : Vintage
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 152 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (321 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Book Synopsis Chile by : Jacobo Timerman

Download or read book Chile written by Jacobo Timerman and published by Vintage. This book was released on 1988 with total page 152 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Hope Under Siege

Author : Michele Ritterman
Publisher : Greenwood
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 304 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Book Synopsis Hope Under Siege by : Michele Ritterman

Download or read book Hope Under Siege written by Michele Ritterman and published by Greenwood. This book was released on 1991 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This text studies the applications of psychotherapeutic principles and techniques beyond consulting and into the larger world of political and social reality. The volume focuses on incarcerated political and social reality. The volume focuses on incarcerated political prisoners in Pinochet's Chile- people who have been kidnapped off the streets, stolen from their families and communities, denied due process of law, and tortured and abused. Yet, they exhibit hope and courage to extraordinary degrees. Beyond the ordeals of the prisoners, there is the plight of the families left behind who must deal with poverty, oppression and fear for missing loved ones. They too exhibit hope and courage beyond the ordinary. It is the author's stated purpose to understand and reveal to the reader the psycho- and social dynamics that allow families to be the front line of resistance against state sponsored torture and oppression. The volume is thus an unusual and valuable contribution to the study of family systems under extreme duress. Moreover, the volume demonstrates not only the far-reaching possibilities that exist when psychotherapeutic techniques and knowledge are used to further the goals of a political state.

Pinochet in Piccadilly

Author : Andy Beckett
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780571215478
Total Pages : 280 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (154 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Book Synopsis Pinochet in Piccadilly by : Andy Beckett

Download or read book Pinochet in Piccadilly written by Andy Beckett and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In October 1998, the erstwhile Chilean dictator General Augusto Pinochet was arrested in London, charged with crimes against humanity by a Spanish magistrate. But over the 16 months that Pinochet was detained, intriguing questions went unanswered about his close ties with Britain. Why was Lady Thatcher so keen to defend the General? And why was Tony Blair's usually cautious government prepared to have him arrested? As Andy Beckett uncovers, the answers reside deep within the long and shadowy history of relations between Britain and Chile. 'An outstanding achievement, and mesmerically readable . . . Beckett has surely written one of the best political travelogues of the year.' Sunday Times 'I am stirred and astonished at [Andy Beckett's] brilliance, and by the imaginative sympathy with which he rekindles the arguments and emotions of a period he never knew.' Christopher Hitchens, London Review of Books

Chile, Pinochet, and the Caravan of Death

Author : Patricia Verdugo
Publisher : University of Miami, North/South Center Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 252 pages
Book Rating : 4.X/5 (4 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Book Synopsis Chile, Pinochet, and the Caravan of Death by : Patricia Verdugo

Download or read book Chile, Pinochet, and the Caravan of Death written by Patricia Verdugo and published by University of Miami, North/South Center Press. This book was released on 2001 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Verdugo is a journalist whose father was tortured to death by the Pinochet regime. This is her account of the executions without trial of 75 political prisoners in five Chilean cities, carried out by a military team later called the "Caravan of Death" that was sent out following Pinochet's 1973 coup. Originally published in 1989 as Caso Arellano: los zarpazos del puma, the book is considered one of the key documents that led to Pinochet's arrest in London in 1998. This first English-language edition includes an epilogue describing Chile's high-profile judicial hearings on the killings, through Pinochet's January 2001 indictment for planning and covering them up. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR.

The Dictator's Shadow

Author : Heraldo Munoz
Publisher : Basic Books
ISBN 13 : 0786726040
Total Pages : 370 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (867 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Book Synopsis The Dictator's Shadow by : Heraldo Munoz

Download or read book The Dictator's Shadow written by Heraldo Munoz and published by Basic Books. This book was released on 2008-09-02 with total page 370 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Augusto Pinochet was the most important Third World dictator of the Cold War, and perhaps the most ruthless. In The Dictator's Shadow, United Nations Ambassador Heraldo Munoz takes advantage of his unmatched set of perspectives -- as a former revolutionary who fought the Pinochet regime, as a respected scholar, and as a diplomat -- to tell what this extraordinary figure meant to Chile, the United States, and the world. Pinochet's American backers saw his regime as a bulwark against Communism; his nation was a testing ground for U.S.-inspired economic theories. Countries desiring World Bank support were told to emulate Pinochet's free-market policies, and Chile's government pension even inspired President George W. Bush's plan to privatize Social Security. The other baggage -- the assassinations, tortures, people thrown out of airplanes, mass murders of political prisoners -- was simply the price to be paid for building a modern state. But the questions raised by Pinochet's rule still remain: Are such dictators somehow necessary? Horrifying but also inspiring, The Dictator's Shadow is a unique tale of how geopolitical rivalries can profoundly affect everyday life.

Story of a Death Foretold

Author : Oscar Guardiola-Rivera
Publisher : A&C Black
ISBN 13 : 1408830086
Total Pages : 498 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (88 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Book Synopsis Story of a Death Foretold by : Oscar Guardiola-Rivera

Download or read book Story of a Death Foretold written by Oscar Guardiola-Rivera and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2013-01-01 with total page 498 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On 11 September 1973, President Salvador Allende of Chile, Latin America's first democratically elected Marxist president, was deposed in a violent coup d'état. Early that morning the phone lines to Allende's office were cut, army officers loyal to the republic were arrested and shortly afterwards bombs from four British-made Hawker Hunter jets began slamming into the presidential palace. Allende refused to leave his post, making broadcasts to encourage the Chilean people until the last pro-government radio station was silenced. Later that morning he was found dead, with an AK-47 that had been a gift from Fidel Castro by his side.The coup had been planned for months, even years before it actually happened. In fact, from the moment Allende's electoral victory in 1970 became a possibility, business leaders in Chile, extreme right-wing groups, high-ranking officers in the Chilean military and the US administration and the CIA worked together to secure a prompt and dramatic end to his progressive social programme.Why Allende seemed such a threat in the political and economic context of the time and how the coup was engineered is the story Oscar Guardiola-Rivera tells, drawing on a wide range of sources, including phone transcripts and documents released as recently as 2008. It is a radical retelling of a moment in history that even at the height of Cold War paranoia - a time when Henry Kissinger described Chile as 'a dagger pointed at the heart of Antarctica' -shocked the world and which continues to resonate today. As the uprisings of the Arab Spring and the global protests at austerity measures introduced since the crash of 2008 show, the world is struggling to deal with the economic and political dilemmas Allende faced at the time.

The Condor Years

Author : John Dinges
Publisher : New Press, The
ISBN 13 : 1595589023
Total Pages : 338 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (955 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Book Synopsis The Condor Years by : John Dinges

Download or read book The Condor Years written by John Dinges and published by New Press, The. This book was released on 2012-03-13 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A “compelling and shocking account” of a brutal campaign of repression in Latin America, based on interviews and previously secret documents (The Miami Herald). Throughout the 1970s, six Latin American governments, led by Chile, formed a military alliance called Operation Condor to carry out kidnappings, torture, and political assassinations across three continents. It was an early “war on terror” initially encouraged by the CIA—which later backfired on the United States. Hailed by Foreign Affairs as “remarkable” and “a major contribution to the historical record,” The Condor Years uncovers the unsettling facts about the secret US relationship with the dictators who created this terrorist organization. Written by award-winning journalist John Dinges and updated to include later developments in the prosecution of Pinochet, the book is a chilling yet dispassionately told history of one of Latin America’s darkest eras. Dinges, himself interrogated in a Chilean torture camp, interviewed participants on both sides and examined thousands of previously secret documents to take the reader inside this underground world of military operatives and diplomats, right-wing spies and left-wing revolutionaries. “Scrupulous, well-documented.” —The Washington Post “Nobody knows what went wrong inside Chile like John Dinges.” —Seymour Hersh

Civil Obedience

Author : Michael Lazzara
Publisher : University of Wisconsin Pres
ISBN 13 : 029931720X
Total Pages : 257 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (993 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Book Synopsis Civil Obedience by : Michael Lazzara

Download or read book Civil Obedience written by Michael Lazzara and published by University of Wisconsin Pres. This book was released on 2018-05-15 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Boldly breaks new ground in studies of Latin American postdictatorial memories by tackling a taboo topic--civilian complicity with the Pinochet regime--that Chilean society has strategically avoided.

Exorcising Terror

Author : Ariel Dorfman
Publisher : Seven Stories Press
ISBN 13 : 9781583225424
Total Pages : 228 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (254 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Book Synopsis Exorcising Terror by : Ariel Dorfman

Download or read book Exorcising Terror written by Ariel Dorfman and published by Seven Stories Press. This book was released on 2002-07-09 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Renowned author Ariel Dorfman, obsessed for twenty-five years with the malignant shadow General Pinochet cast upon Chile and the world, followed every twist and turn of the four year old trial in Great Britain, Spain and Chile as well as in the U.S., the country that had created Pinochet. Told as a suspense thriller, filled with court-room drama and sudden reversals of fortune, the book at the same time addresses some of today's most burning issues, made all the more urgent after the terrorist attacks of September 11th 2001. What are the limits of national sovereignty in a globalizing world? How does an ever more interconnected world judge crimes committed against humanity? What role do memory and pain and the rights of the survivors play in this struggle for a new system of justice? But above all, the author, by listening carefully to the voices of Pinochet's many victims, explores how can we purge ourselves of terror and fear once we have been traumatized, and asks if we can build peace and reconciliation without facing a turbulent and perverse past.

Soldiers in a Narrow Land

Author : Mary Helen Spooner
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 9780520221697
Total Pages : 332 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (216 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Book Synopsis Soldiers in a Narrow Land by : Mary Helen Spooner

Download or read book Soldiers in a Narrow Land written by Mary Helen Spooner and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 1999-09 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "An accurate and objective account of the political events in Chile. . . . An important document for those who want to know what happened, and for those who should not forget."—Isabel Allende

The Dictator's Shadow

Author : Heraldo Munoz
Publisher : Basic Books
ISBN 13 : 0786726040
Total Pages : 368 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (867 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Book Synopsis The Dictator's Shadow by : Heraldo Munoz

Download or read book The Dictator's Shadow written by Heraldo Munoz and published by Basic Books. This book was released on 2008-09-02 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Augusto Pinochet was the most important Third World dictator of the Cold War, and perhaps the most ruthless. In The Dictator's Shadow, United Nations Ambassador Heraldo Munoz takes advantage of his unmatched set of perspectives -- as a former revolutionary who fought the Pinochet regime, as a respected scholar, and as a diplomat -- to tell what this extraordinary figure meant to Chile, the United States, and the world. Pinochet's American backers saw his regime as a bulwark against Communism; his nation was a testing ground for U.S.-inspired economic theories. Countries desiring World Bank support were told to emulate Pinochet's free-market policies, and Chile's government pension even inspired President George W. Bush's plan to privatize Social Security. The other baggage -- the assassinations, tortures, people thrown out of airplanes, mass murders of political prisoners -- was simply the price to be paid for building a modern state. But the questions raised by Pinochet's rule still remain: Are such dictators somehow necessary? Horrifying but also inspiring, The Dictator's Shadow is a unique tale of how geopolitical rivalries can profoundly affect everyday life.

The Pinochet File

Author : Peter Kornbluh
Publisher : The New Press
ISBN 13 : 1595589953
Total Pages : 485 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (955 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Book Synopsis The Pinochet File by : Peter Kornbluh

Download or read book The Pinochet File written by Peter Kornbluh and published by The New Press. This book was released on 2016-04-12 with total page 485 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Revised and updated: the definitive primary-source history of US involvement in General Pinochet’s Chilean coup—“the evidence is overwhelming” (The New Yorker). Published to commemorate the fortieth anniversary of General Augusto Pinochet’s infamous September 11, 1973, military coup in Chile, this updated edition of The Pinochet File reveals the shocking, formerly secret record of the US government’s complicity with atrocity in a foreign country. The book now completes the file on Pinochet’s story, detailing his multiple indictments between 2004 and his death on December 10, 2006, including the Riggs Bank scandal that revealed how the dictator had illegally squirreled away over $26 million in ill-begotten wealth in secret American bank accounts. When it was first released in hardcover, The Pinochet File contributed to the international campaign to hold Pinochet accountable for murder, torture, and terrorism. A new afterword tells the extraordinary story of Henry Kissinger’s attempt to undercut the book’s reception—efforts that generated a major scandal that led to a high-level resignation at the Council on Foreign Relations, illustrating the continued ability of the book to speak truth to power. “The Pinochet File should be considered the long awaited book of record on U.S. intervention in Chile . . . A crisp compelling narrative, almost a political thriller.” —Los Angeles Times

What the DINA and Pinochet Deny

Author : International Trade Union Committee for Solidarity with the Workers and People of Chile
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 59 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (84 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Book Synopsis What the DINA and Pinochet Deny by : International Trade Union Committee for Solidarity with the Workers and People of Chile

Download or read book What the DINA and Pinochet Deny written by International Trade Union Committee for Solidarity with the Workers and People of Chile and published by . This book was released on 1977 with total page 59 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Reckoning with Pinochet

Author : Steve J. Stern
Publisher : Duke University Press
ISBN 13 : 0822391775
Total Pages : 585 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (223 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Book Synopsis Reckoning with Pinochet by : Steve J. Stern

Download or read book Reckoning with Pinochet written by Steve J. Stern and published by Duke University Press. This book was released on 2010-04-30 with total page 585 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reckoning with Pinochet is the first comprehensive account of how Chile came to terms with General Augusto Pinochet’s legacy of human rights atrocities. An icon among Latin America’s “dirty war” dictators, Pinochet had ruled with extreme violence while building a loyal social base. Hero to some and criminal to others, the general cast a long shadow over Chile’s future. Steve J. Stern recounts the full history of Chile’s democratic reckoning, from the negotiations in 1989 to chart a post-dictatorship transition; through Pinochet’s arrest in London in 1998; the thirtieth anniversary, in 2003, of the coup that overthrew President Salvador Allende; and Pinochet’s death in 2006. He shows how transnational events and networks shaped Chile’s battles over memory, and how the Chilean case contributed to shifts in the world culture of human rights. Stern’s analysis integrates policymaking by elites, grassroots efforts by human rights victims and activists, and inside accounts of the truth commissions and courts where top-down and bottom-up initiatives met. Interpreting solemn presidential speeches, raucous street protests, interviews, journalism, humor, cinema, and other sources, he describes the slow, imperfect, but surprisingly forceful advance of efforts to revive democratic values through public memory struggles, despite the power still wielded by the military and a conservative social base including the investor class. Over time, resourceful civil-society activists and select state actors won hard-fought, if limited, gains. As a result, Chileans were able to face the unwelcome past more honestly, launch the world’s first truth commission to examine torture, ensnare high-level perpetrators in the web of criminal justice, and build a public culture of human rights. Stern provides an important conceptualization of collective memory in the wake of national trauma in this magisterial work of history.