Dictator's Shadow Life under Augusto Pinochet - A Political Memoir

Name: Dictator's Shadow Life under Augusto Pinochet - A Political Memoir
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ISBN: 9780465002504

ISBN-10: 0465002501

ISBN-13: 9780465002504

Edition: 2008

Authors: Heraldo Munoz

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Augusto Pinochet was the most important Third World dictator of the Cold War, and perhaps the most ruthless. In The Dictator's Shadow, United Nations Ambassador Heraldo Munoz takes advantage of his unmatched set of perspectivesas a former revolutionary who fought the Pinochet regime, as a respected scholar, and as a diplomatto tell what this extraordinary figure meant to Chile, the United States, and the world. Pinochet's American backers saw his regime as a bulwark against Communism; his nation was a testing ground for U.S.-inspired economic theories. Countries desiring World Bank support were told to emulate Pinochet's free-market policies, and Chile's government pension even inspired…

Book details

List price: $35.00
Copyright year: 2008
Publisher: Basic Books
Publication date: 9/2/2008
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 376
Size: 6.25" wide x 9.50" long x 1.25" tall
Weight: 1.518
Language: English



Preface



A Different 9/11



The Two Pinochets



The Power to Dictate



Pinochet's Global Reach



Regime on the Ropes



To Kill Pinochet or Defeat Him with a Pencil



Governing with the Enemy



Lost in London



Reversals of Fortune



Pinochet's Long Shadow


Acknowledgments


Sources


Index