The Dictator's Shadow: Life Under Augusto Pinochet » (Bargain)

Ambassador Heraldo Muñoz was Deputy Foreign Minister of Chile in 2000–2002 and Minister Secretary General in 2002–2003 at La Moneda Presidential Palace before assuming his present post as ambassador to the U.N., where he has served as President of the Security Council. The author of several scholarly books, he is frequently quoted on international issues by the New York Times, Washington Post, Financial Times, and other journals. He lives in New York City.

A gripping memoir of life in Chile under Augusto Pinochet, the horrors perpetrated by his regime, and what it took to overthrow him.

The Washington Post - Joshua Partlow

…anger, verging on disgust, toward Pinochet is the driving force in Munoz's meticulous and vivid new book, The Dictator's Shadow. He calls it a "political memoir," but it reads more as a compendium of crimes, whose specificity—names and dates, weapon calibers, entry wound locations, torturers' techniques—has a prosecutorial flavor, as if Munoz seeks to secure the conviction that Pinochet, who died in December 2006, successfully avoided during his lifetime…Munoz's memoir is part of a long, collective effort to uncover what the dictator and his henchmen buried in secrecy, fear and blood; in that sense, this book is a contribution to Chile's healing process. It can be slow reading, particularly when the author dwells on the minutiae of opposition politics, the endless meetings and internal disputes. But Munoz delivers a compelling, personal account of life in a police state and a strong reminder of how far Chile has come.

1 A Different 9/11 1

2 The Two Pinochets 22

3 The Power to Dictate 60

4 Pinochet's Global Reach 81

5 Regime on the Ropes 120

6 To Kill Pinochet or Defeat Him with a Pencil 160

7 Governing with the Enemy 209

8 Lost in London 242

9 Reversals of Fortune 274

10 Pinochet's Long Shadow 299

Sources 317

Index 327