Timerman, Jacobo;
Chile: Death in the South
Knopf, 1987, 133 pages
ISBN 0394538382, 9780394538389
topics: | latin-america | history
Chronicles the human drama and tragedy of events in the '90s in Chile after fourteen years of brutal dictatorship supported by the USA Jose Donoso, Chilean writer and early innovator in Magic Realism: "They (the US) put him in, so they should take him out." Orlando Letelier: leading opponent of the Augusto Pinochet regime, assassinated by a car bomb in Washington in 1976. Timerman speaks to his son. [Michael Townley, the terrorist agent who engineered the killing, was extradited to the US and was sentenced but turned crown's witness]