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
“In this well-researched book, Stern covers the broad swath of history from the end of the Pinochet regime to Pinochet’s condemnation by the international community to Chile’s leadership under Bachelet. . . . [T]he book’s greatest strength is its elucidation of symbolic acknowledgment as a form of memory politics by both the state and local community. . . . Recommended. Upper-division undergraduates and above.”— Choice
Duke University Press, 2010
Pages: 584, Illustrations: 29 photographs, 2 maps
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Другие книги Steve J. Stern:
Remembering Pinochet’s Chile: On the Eve of London 1998,
Battling for Hearts and Minds: Memory Struggles in Pinochet’s Chile, 1973–1988
