The Southern Tiger: Chile's Fight for a Democratic and Prosperous Future

by Ricardo Lagos and Blake Hounshell

Former Chilean president Ricardo Lagos provides a fascinating glimpse inside his country's meteoric rise on the world stage. A leader in the underground resistance movement against Augusto Pinochet and his Dirty War, Ricardo Lagos burst onto the national stage in 1988 when he gave a speech denouncing the dictator, the first of its kind. Revolution soon followed, as Chileans took to the streets to oust a criminal despot and pave the way for democracy...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 023033816X
• ISBN13: 9780230338166
• Release Date: January 2012
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 258 Pages
• Weight: 1.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.4" x 9.4"