Pinochet and me
Subtitle: a Chilean anti-memoir
By: Marc Cooper
Publisher: VERSO
Published: 2001
Place of publication: London; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 143
Subjects: History
Description: "The earthshaking news of October 1998 that General Pinochet had been arrested in Britain unleashed two years of international interest in the case and its ramifications for traveling tyrants the world over. But even after the General's return home, the media has ignored the more important story of how his detention lifted a stranglehold that had suffocated Chile's moral sensibility for a generation." "Award-winning journalist Marc Cooper was a translator to president Allende until the coup of 1973. In this reflection on Chile and the role it has played in his life, he reconstructs the tense atmosphere of the final days of the Allende government, including his hiding and subsequent evacuation under armed UN protection. Twenty-five years later he returns and recounts, in vivid street-level reporting, a country that is a democracy in name only and a society that has been transfigured by one of the most radical, armed capitalist revolutions of our time. Yet, he argues, spasms of protest that seemed like the last rattle of the snake may still presage the crumbling of Chile's status quo as its people emerge from the long night of reaction to the cry of "Adios General!""--Jacket.
Table of contents: title: Prelude: "My name is Pinochet": November-December 1971; title: Omen: Allende's dilemma: July 1973; title: Deluge: chronicle of a death postponed: September 1973; title: Aftermath: perpetual night: December 1975; title: Resistance: streets of fire: September 1983; title: Illusion: a transvestite democracy: January-March 1998; title: Resurrection: Adios General!: December 1999-September 2000.