| Description |
1 online resource (xiii, 322 pages, 12 unnumbered pages of plates) : illustrations |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 269-305) and index. |
| Contents |
An uneasy transition -- Transferring power -- The conciliator -- The commander -- Truth and reconciliation -- Building democracy -- Elections and the military -- Politics and free speech -- Justice delayed -- London and Santiago -- Consolidating democracy -- The dictator's last bow -- Unfinished business -- Michelle Bachelet -- Chile, post-Pinochet. |
| Note |
Print version record. |
| Summary |
This is an account of how Chile rebuilt its democracy after 17 years of military rule - with the former dictator, Augusto Pinochet, watching, and waiting, from the sidelines. Spooner discusses the major players, events, and institutions in Chile's recent political history, delving into such topics as the environmental situation, the economy, and the election of Michelle Bachelet. Throughout, she examines Pinochet's continuing influence on public life as she tells how he grudgingly ceded power, successfully fought investigations into his human rights record and finances, kept command of the army for eight years after leaving the presidency, was detained on human rights charges, and died without being convicted of any of the many serious crimes of which he was accused. Chile has now become one of South America's greatest economic and political successes, but as we find in The General's Slow Retreat, it remains a country burdened with a painful past. |
| Subject |
Pinochet Ugarte, Augusto.
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Pinochet Ugarte, Augusto. (OCoLC)fst00042059
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Chile -- Politics and government -- 1988-
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Democratization -- Chile.
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HISTORY.
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Anthropology -- Cultural.
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Democratization. (OCoLC)fst00890123
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Politics and government. (OCoLC)fst01919741
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Chile. (OCoLC)fst01205362
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| Chronological Term |
Since 1988
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Spooner, Mary Helen. General's slow retreat. Berkeley, Calif. ; London, England : University of California Press, ©2011 9780520256132 (DLC) 2010036098 (OCoLC)658117527 |
| ISBN |
9780520948761 (electronic bk.) |
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0520948769 (electronic bk.) |
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