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"Like a García Márquez novel that has suddenly, horrifyingly, come to real life" ( New York Newsday ), Fear in Chile is an extraordinary collection of firstperson accounts of life under dictatorship. In the 1980s, shortly after Chile emerged from one of the century's most notorious reigns of terror, Chilean journalist Patricia Politzer interviewed figures including a revolutionary activist, a military leader loyal to General Augusto Pinochet, a bank clerk concerned with the status quo, the mother of one of the "disappeared," as well as a dozen other men and women from every political position and social stratum of Chilean life. The result is a broad, vivid, yet nonideological view of modern life under military rule, about which Ariel Dorfman writes, "I can think of no better introduction to my country."

With the October 1998 arrest of General Pinochet in Great Britain and renewed world awareness of the horrendous crimes committed during his regime, Fear in Chile , updated with a new afterword by the author that considers the recent attempts to prosecute Pinochet for human-rights violations, offers a vivid portrait of Chile's Pinochet era.

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• Acknowledgments(p. vii)
• Foreword(p. ix)
• Preface(p. xiii)
• Statement by the Cardinal Archbishop of Santiago de Chile(p. xvii)
• The Executed Mayor: Blanca Ester Valderas Garrido(p. 3)
• A Mayor of the Regime: Colonel Juan Deichler Guzman(p. 20)
• The Decline and Frustration of a Banker: Sergio Astrain Torres(p. 39)
• A Young Apostle's Rebellion: Carlos(p. 49)
• A Model Militant Party Member: Raquel(p. 69)
• A Pinochet Diehard: Elena Tesser de Villaseca(p. 93)
• Copper: Boom, Strike, and Unemployment: Victor Lopez Rivera(p. 100)
• Corporatism: A Product of Reason: Andres Chadwick Pinera(p. 117)
• The Rebellion of an Old-fashioned Priest: Damian Acuna Jarpa(p. 127)
• To Disappear Is Not to Die: Elsa Esquivel Rojo(p. 140)
• Poor, Hungry, and Oppressed: Blanca Ibarra Abarca(p. 154)
• The Fate of the Union Movement: Manuel Bustos Huerta(p. 174)
• A "Chicago Boy" with No Regrets: Carlos Paut Ugarte(p. 200)
• The Soldiers' Friend: Moy de Toha(p. 214)
• Afterword(p. 247)

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Library Journal Review

Through these interviews with both pro-and anti-government Chileans, journalist Politzer conveys the widespread fear that has become endemic in this country. For another account, see Gabriel Garcia Marquez's Clandestine in Chile ( LJ 6/15/87).-- Ed. . She juxtaposes accounts of relentless killings, disappearances, and police brutality with exalting reports of economic prosperity under Pinochet's regime. Macabrely fascinating, this book is a timely release in light of the upcoming Chilean presidential election that was mandated by the 1988 plebiscite. The book may become the perfect epitaph to a violent dictatorship.-- Bibi Thompson, ``Library Journal'' (c) Copyright 2010. Library Journals LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. No redistribution permitted.

Booklist Review

The nightmare of fear continues for Chile, even after the 1988 election that will ultimately result in the ouster of the Pinochet dictatorship from power. Politzer's interviews with 14 Chileans focus on this period of military rule and give a balanced picture of the ideologically complex political and social history of the country for the last two decades. From military leaders who supported the Pinochet government to revolutionaries who worked for democratic rule, these people outline their experiences and demonstrate their concern for their still troubled country. Politzer attempts to give a consistent perspective in her brief introductions to each interview, but in general she allows each individual a voice in assessing what has happened in Chile's past and in asking what the future holds. --John Brosnahan

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Patricia Politzer was, in a national radio broadcast in 1978, one of the first journalists to speak out against the Pinochet coup, and for many years she had a weekly political interview column in the opposition newspaper La Epoca . She is now a cabinet member in the Chilean government under President Lagos.