Chile Under Pinochet

<p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Following his bloody September 1973 coup d'état that overthrew President Salvador Allende Augusto Pinochet commander-in-chief of the Chilean Armed Forces and National Police became head of a military junta that would rule Chile for the next seventeen years.</span></p><p></p><p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>In this primary study of the period Mark Ensalaco maintains that Pinochet was complicit in the enforced disappearance of thousands of Chileans and an unknown number of foreign nationals. Ensalaco spent five years in Chile investigating the impact of Pinochet's rule and interviewing members of the truth commission created to investigate the human rights violations under Pinochet. The political objective of human rights organizations Ensalaco contends is to bring sufficient pressure to bear on violent regimes to induce them to end policies of repression. However these efforts are severely limited by the disparities of power between human rights organizations and regimes intent on ruthlessly eliminating dissent.</span></p>