Chile Under Pinochet

by Mark Ensalaco

"When the army comes out, it is to kill."--Augusto Pinochet

Following his bloody September 1973 coup d' tat that overthrew President Salvador Allende, Augusto Pinochet, commander-in-chief of the Chilean Armed Forces and National Police, became head of a military junta that would rule Chile for the next seventeen years. The violent repression used by the Pinochet regime to maintain power and transform the country's political profile and economic...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0812235207
• ISBN13: 9780812235203
• Release Date: November 1999
• Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
• Length: 296 Pages
• Weight: 1.66 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.5" x 9.6"