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Chile: Death in the South

Jacobo Timerman

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]


amitabha mukerjee (mukerjee [at] gmail.com) 17 Feb 2009