Chile in Their Hearts (eBook)

The Untold Story of Two Americans Who Went Missing after the Coup

John Dinges (Autor)

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2025
287 Seiten
University of California Press (Verlag)
978-0-520-41320-7 (ISBN)

Infos

Set against the romance of revolution and the terror of a military coup, this arresting mystery is also a reckoning with the callousness of U.S. foreign policy.
 
In 1972 two idealistic young Americans, Charles Horman and Frank Teruggi, arrived in Chile to participate in President Salvador Allende's socialist and democratic revolution. A year later they were secretly executed as Chile's military, with U.S. backing, deposed Allende. Following a sham investigation and cover-up, a Chilean defector leveled a stunning but ultimately false accusation: a CIA agent was in the room when one of the killings was ordered.
 
The defector's tale inspired the acclaimed 1982 film Missing and established U.S. involvement as the accepted narrative. But Chile in Their Hearts exposes the tale as a fabrication and leads us to a more intriguing reality. This book will force readers to rethink what they thought they knew about this infamous case. Renowned investigative journalist John Dinges scoured U.S. and Chilean archives and interviewed new witnesses to reveal the true story of the killings and the compelling adventure of the two Americans' lives against the backdrop of U.S. intervention in Chile.

Inhalt

Contents
 
Introduction: Chile's Allure
 
Part I. Roads to the Revolution
1. Charlie and Joyce
2. Frank
3. Living the "Chilean Process"
4. New York
5. The Coup
6. Valparaiso
7. Vicuña Mackenna
 
Part II. The Search
8. Missing
9. The Embassy
10. Investigations
11. Distract and Deceive
12. Mr. Horman Goes to Chile
13. Disappeared in Plain Sight
 
Part III. Unraveling the Truth
14. The Making of "The Man Who Knew Too Much"
15. How and Why
16. Scenario for a Movie
17. A Trial in Chile
 
Part IV. Conclusions
18. The U.S. Role
19. Leads Not Followed
 
Acknowledging a Legacy
Sources and Methods
Notes
Index

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 29.4.2025
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Pädagogik
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
• Schlagworte: Chilean coup • Chilean history • cold war politics • disappearance • Horman-Teruggi case • human rights and political repression • human rights violations in Latin America • International Security • Intervention • investigative journalism • Missing 1982 film • newly declassified documents • Pinochet • solidarity activism • US embassy involvement • U.S. Foreign Policy • U.S. role • victims
• ISBN-10: 0-520-41320-2 / 0520413202
• ISBN-13: 978-0-520-41320-7 / 9780520413207