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The General's Slow Retreat: Chile After Pinochet
The General's Slow Retreat: Chile After Pinochet
After losing a one-man plebiscite to extend his regime for another eight years, General Augusto Pinochet reluctantly turned the Chilean presidency over to an elected civilian. But he continued as army commander, and remnants of his power and authoritarian legacy would take decades to dismantle. Even after his 1998 arrest in London on human rights charges he still managed to dodge judicial investigations into his record and illicit fortune.
"How does a new democratic government function in a country that has been governed by a military dictatorship for nearly two decades? Where do the remnants of the old regime go? These are just some of the questions addressed in Mary Helen Spooner's gripping new book about Chilean politics following Augusto Pinochet's dictatorship. Spanning more than 20 years following Chile's 1988 plebiscite on whether to extend Pinochet's rule and the country's subsequent elections, Spooner shows us how difficult and uncertain Chile's democratic transition was."
--Tanya Harmer, International Affairs
Soldiers in a Narrow Land: The Pinochet Regime in Chile
Drawing on interviews with former regime officials, military officers and ordinary Chileans from many walks of life, as well as declassified US government documents, Soldiers in a Narrow Land unravels the complex and harrowing events that transformed Chilean society. |
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