When the Romance Ended: Leaders of the Chilean Left, 1968-1998

by Katherine Hite

Book Overview

The unanticipated arrest of General Augusto Pinochet in London on October 16, 1998 served to punctuate the twenty-fifth anniversary of the most cataclysmic event in Chilean history--a violent coup d'etat that abruptly ended decades of democratic rule. A steadily increasing series of explorations, interviews, and images in the popular press and media has begun to unearth the horrors of the dictatorship and its defenders and to reevaluate the stories...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0231110170
• ISBN13: 9780231110174
• Release Date: November 2000
• Publisher: Columbia University Press
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 0.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 9.0"
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher