- Hardcover: 208 pages
- Publisher: New York University Press (1 Mar 2000)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0814762018
- ISBN-13: 978-0814762011
- Product Dimensions: 2.2 x 1.4 x 0.2 cm
- Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 4,156,556 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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Through interviews, eyewitness accounts and new sources, O'Shaughnessy gives the reader insight into the personal life, rise to power and arrest and internment of the former Chilean dictator, Augusto Pinochet, charged in 1998 for crimes against humanity.
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This book tells what Pinochet's supporters would rather hide
How close was the Pinochet regime to the drug trade? Is Pinochet still a member of the Catholic church or is he excommunicated? How rich has the Pinochet family become? Answers to these questions are to be found in my book. But there is still a lot more investigation which my friends and I are working on! --This text refers to the Paperback edition.
How close was the Pinochet regime to the drug trade? Is Pinochet still a member of the Catholic church or is he excommunicated? How rich has the Pinochet family become? Answers to these questions are to be found in my book. But there is still a lot more investigation which my friends and I are working on! --This text refers to the Paperback edition.
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2 of 2 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
'Pinochet: Politics Of Torture' looks at the life and dictatorship of Augusto Pinochet up until his arrest in 1998. It is extremely well written and the style is easy to read, even if some of the subject matter isn't. This book looks at the various professional relationships between Pinochet and other leading figures whilst he was in power and the conflicts he had whilst trying to maintain his grip on Chile. It explores some of the human rights abuses and the parts of this book that explain the various tortures are quite distasteful and hard to read. You can barely believe one man could be so cruel to another. The politics of the era and the support Chile received from The U.S. and shamefully the U.K. make for uncomfortable, but required reading. This book could really do with an updated version so that the reader is left knowing the outcome to various 'storylines' (for want of a better phrase) and of Pinochet. This book has a photo section in the middle to add some imagery to the stories outlined in the text. Overall this is an insightful read, that will keep you engrossed and interested the whole way through. Well worth a read.
Feel free to check out my blog which can be found on my profile page.
Feel free to check out my blog which can be found on my profile page.
10 of 14 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
Brilliantly written by Hugh O'Shaughnessy, a journalist from The Guardian, this is a step by step history of the life of Pinochet, from his childhood in Valparaise to his arrest in the UK in 1998. We learn a lot about the facts of life that turned a yound Catholic boy into such a feared dictator, capable of the most horrid acts of torture. The book also acts as an amazing eye-opener as we discover the extent to which people like Thatcher and the Conservative party (as well as some of Blair's men) were reluctant to have Pinochet arrested for war crimes. The book provides incredible description and fascinating accounts of the world's first international arrest (of a dictator from Peru, under arrest for torturing Spanish civilians and arrested in the UK). I highly recommend it to all.
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11 of 14 people found the following review helpful
This Bookk Is The Summarized Recent History of Chile
6 Jun 2000
Format:Hardcover
Through this book, every one with no prior knowledge on the recent political history of Chile, may become informed about what happened in that South American country in the last 30 years. In summarizing the history of Pinochet's raise, O'Shaughnessy masterly informs the reader not just about how a rather mediocre army officer became the icon of the Latin American dictator, but also what the Chilean society itself was before the putsch of 1973, and how it changed through the years by means of terror and torture. The book also throws light about something often silenced, even in today's semidemocratic Chile: the involvement of top rank officers in drug smuggling. In Chile, where historians wait for the time to give the "needed historic perspective" there is not such a book that in just 208 pages summarizes such a big amount of data. I think the chilean young people would be thankfully of the printer that dares to publish the spanish translation of this book, for it will give them an understanding of the divisions that still hurt this country.
7 of 10 people found the following review helpful
The true story of the chilean dictator and his regime
26 July 2002
Format:Hardcover
this is an excellent book to understand the nature of the act commited in Chile by Augusto Pinochet. Althought today many of his supporters try to deny the horror of Pinochet's regime the truth about the atrocities commited by the so call "chilean Libertator" are evident on this book. Pinochet's crimes include genocide,murder,Terrorism, torture, kidnaping and assasination on chilean territory and abroad.The victims of his crimes were chilean citizens and foreigners (including US citizens). This book gives an account of this dictator life and acts in a very organized way from his childhood to his arrest on London during 1998 (as an international criminal).
Pinochet: The Politics of Torture
12 Feb 2011
Format:Hardcover
'Pinochet: Politics Of Torture' looks at the life and dictatorship of Augusto Pinochet up until his arrest in 1998. It is extremely well written and the style is easy to read, even if some of the subject matter isn't. This book looks at the various professional relationships between Pinochet and other leading figures whilst he was in power and the conflicts he had whilst trying to maintain his grip on Chile. It explores some of the human rights abuses and the parts of this book that explain the various tortures are quite distasteful and hard to read. You can barely believe one man could be so cruel to another. The politics of the era and the support Chile received from The U.S. and shamefully the U.K. make for uncomfortable, but required reading. This book could really do with an updated version so that the reader is left knowing the outcome to various 'storylines' (for want of a better phrase) and of Pinochet. This book has a photo section in the middle to add some imagery to the stories outlined in the text. Overall this is an insightful read, that will keep you engrossed and interested the whole way through. Well worth a read.
Feel free to check out my blog which can be found on my profile page.
Feel free to check out my blog which can be found on my profile page.
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