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The Dictator's Shadow: Life Under Augusto Pinochet

Door Heraldo Munoz

Categorie	Geschiedenis Zuid- en Latijns Amerika
Boeknummer	#362356-XK15
Titel	The Dictator's Shadow: Life Under Augusto Pinochet
Auteur	Munoz, Heraldo
Boektype	Gebonden hardcover met stofomslag
Uitgeverij	New York : Basic Books
Jaar van uitgave	2008
ISBN10	0465002501
ISBN13	9780465002504
Taal	Engels
Beschrijving	Original half cloth, gilt lettered spine, dust jacket, coloured endpapers, illustrated with b/w photographs, 8vo.
Samenvatting	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 perspectives,as a former revolutionary who fought the Pinochet regime, as a respected scholar, and as a diplomat,to 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 President George W. Bush's plan to privatize Social Security. The other baggage,the assassinations, t... (Lees verder)ortures, people thrown out of airplanes, mass murders of political prisoners,was simply the price to be paid for building a modern state. But the questions raised by Pinochet's rule still remain: Are such dictators somehow necessary? Horrifying but also inspiring, The Dictator's Shadow is a unique tale of how geopolitical rivalries can profoundly affect everyday life.
Pagina's	345
Conditie	Goed
Prijs	€ 15,00

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