Title Chile under Pinochet : recovering the truth / Mark Ensalaco

Published Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, ©2000

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Description 1 online resource (xv, 280 pages) Series Pennsylvania studies in human rights Pennsylvania studies in human rights. Contents 1. The Victors and the Vanquished -- 2. An Invented War -- 3. The New Order -- 4. A War of Extermination -- 5. The Court of World Opinion -- 6. A War of Resistance -- 7. The Peaceful Way to Democracy -- 8. Recovering the Truth -- 9. The Politics of Human Rights Summary "When the army comes out, it is to kill."--Augusto Pinochet. Following 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. Mark Ensalaco is Director of International Studies at the University of Dayton, and Executive Director of the Inter-American Forum of Human Rights-USA Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 261-268) and index Notes In English Print version record Subject Pinochet Ugarte, Augusto Pinochet Ugarte, Augusto Pinochet Ugarte, Augusto PINOCHET UGARTE, AUGUSTO, 1915- Pinochet Ugarte, Augusto. Human rights -- Chile -- History Political persecution -- Chile Victims of state-sponsored terrorism -- Chile Disappeared persons -- Chile Military government -- Chile -- History POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Human Rights. Disappeared persons Human rights Military government Political persecution Politics and government Victims of state-sponsored terrorism Militärdiktatur Menschenrechtsverletzung DERECHOS HUMANOS -- CHILE -- HISTORIA. PERSECUCIONES POLITICAS -- CHILE. VICTIMAS DE TERRORISMO DE ESTADO -- CHILE. DETENIDOS DESAPARECIDOS -- CHILE. GOBIERNO MILITAR -- CHILE. Chile -- Politics and government -- 1973-1988. Chile Chile CHILE -- POLITICA Y GOBIERNO -- 1973-1988. Genre/Form History Form Electronic book LC no. 99032950 ISBN 9780812201864 0812201868 1283211610 9781283211611 9786613211613 6613211613

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