Yo, Augusto = I, Augusto [Spanish]

by Ernesto Ekaizer

Book Overview

This book, based on more than one thousand interviews and based on the research of thousands of secret documents recently declassified, is the story of the man who continues to gain momentum in... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: Spanish
• ISBN: 9505118775
• ISBN13: 9789505118779
• Release Date: January 2003
• Publisher: Alfaguara
• Length: 1024 Pages
• Weight: 3.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 2.3" x 6.0" x 8.8"

Customer Reviews

scholarly, well documented account about Pinochet's regime

This book presents a well documented picture of Pinochet's regime in Chile and the experiences of many whose basic civil liberties were denied in the best cases and in the worst case killed or dissappeared. Starting with the bloody coup d'etat in 1973, the military Junta turned Chile's democratic social experiment in an ELECTED socialist government to more than a decade of repression. This dictatorship sponsored a complete rewriting of the legal and constitutional framework of the country by the military and their civilian supporters. A book worth reading as the ravages of this US-backed right wing conservative dictatorship and its uncontrolled neo-liberal economic policies were a blight on generations of Chileans and has left indelible traces of its social and psychological destruction still tangible 15 years after Chile "transitioned" to democracy.

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A good book, biased

A good biased account. Strongly from the left the journalist dissects and documents the Pinochet regime, explaining in terrible detail the horrors he visited upon many in Chile. The major drawback here is the fact that this book does not acknowledge that had socialist revolution not be stopped by Pinochet it would have continued on its course and Chili would look like Cuba today without freedom of speech and the other horrors of dictatorship. In the final analysis Pinochet was the lesser of two evils, regardless of the anti-Pinochet propaganda. Seth J. Frantzman