Soldiers in a Narrow Land - The Pinochet Regime in Chile, Updated Edition

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List of contents

Preface to the Paperback Edition 
Acknowledgments 
Prologue: Chilean Voices 
Part One: The Dictator's Rise
1. Coup Plotting 
2. The Aftermath 
3· Military Government 
4· Dirty Warriors 
5· The New Institutionality 
Part Two: Dictatorship's Demise
6. Cracks in the Order 
7· Days of Rage 
8. Heroes and Villains 
g. Pinochetistas 
10. Twilight of the Dictator 
Notes 
Select Bibliography 
Index

About the author

Mary Helen Spooner is a journalist who has worked in Latin America since 1977, including nine years as a foreign correspondent in Chile. She has reported for ABC News, The Economist, The Financial Times of London, and Newsweek.

Summary

On September 11, 1973, a military coup in Chile overthrew the socialist government of Salvador Allende, beginning an era of political repression. This title takes us behind the Pinochet regime's wall of censorship, silence, and propaganda and provides an inside look at a brutal dictatorship.

Product details

• Authors: Mary Helen Spooner, Spooner Mary Helen
• Assisted by: Mary Helen Spooner (Editor)
• Publisher: University Of California Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.09.1999
• EAN: 9780520221697
• ISBN: 978-0-520-22169-7
• No. of pages: 322
• Subjects: Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political administration; Chile, Postwar 20th century history, from c 1945 to c 2000, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Public Affairs & Administration, POLITICAL SCIENCE / World / Caribbean & Latin American, HISTORY / Latin America / South America, Later 20th century c 1950 to c 1999, History of the Americas, c 1970 to c 1979, c 1970 to c 1980, C 1980 To C 1990, c 1980 to c 1989, Central / national / federal government, Central government