Samuel Chavkin

This work as published in 1982, 11 years after the UJS-backed coup that overthrew the democratically elected government of Salvador Allende. It presents eyewitness accounts of the coup itself, along with the years of brutal political suppression enacted through murder, torture, and exile, US support for the coup is one of the more shameful episodes in US history, one rebuts nationalistic claims for the country as a beacon of democracy. This book-length account benefits from having been written in the coup's aftermath, while the country of Chile was struggling under Pinochet's right-wing dictatorship. A full, non-partisan account of the coup and its aftermath is available at the Wikipedia page. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1973_Chilean_coup_d%27%C3%A9tat… (plus d'informations)