Chile under Pinochet [[electronic resource] ] : recovering the truth / / Mark Ensalaco

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910781739203321
• Autore: Ensalaco Mark
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Philadelphia, : University of Pennsylvania Press, c2000
• ISBN: 1-283-21161-0; 9786613211613; 0-8122-0186-8
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (299 p.)
• Collana: Pennsylvania studies in human rights
• Disciplina: 323.4/9/098309047
• Soggetti: Human rights - Chile - History; Political persecution - Chile; Victims of state-sponsored terrorism - Chile; Disappeared persons - Chile; Military government - Chile - History; Chile Politics and government 1973-1988
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references (p. [261]-268) and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface -- Chapter 1. The Victors and the Vanquished -- Chapter 2. An Invented War -- Chapter 3. The New Order -- Chapter 4. A War of Extermination -- Chapter 5. The Court of World Opinion -- Chapter 6. A War of Resistance -- Chapter 7. The Peaceful Way to Democracy -- Chapter 8. Recovering the Truth -- Chapter 9. The Politics of Human Rights -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- Acknowledgments
• Sommario/riassunto: "When the army comes out, it is to kill."-Augusto PinochetFollowing 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. The violent repression used by the Pinochet regime to maintain power and transform the country's political profile and economic system has received less attention than the Argentine military dictatorship, even though the Pinochet regime endured twice as long.In this primary study of Chile Under Pinochet, ; 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.