Exorcising Terror: The Incredible Unending Trial of General Augusto Pinochet. (Mixed Media).(Book Review)

From: New Internationalist | Date: July 1, 2003| Author: Whittaker, Peter | Copyright information

by Ariel Dorfman

(Seven Stories Press, ISBN 1 58322 540 0)

On 16 October 1998, to the delight of millions and the fury of his unsavoury pals such as Margaret Thatcher, the former dictator of Chile, Augusto Pinochet, was arrested in London and charged with torture and murder on a warrant issued by the Spanish judge Baltazar Garzon. Ariel Dorfman, the celebrated writer and activist, has charted the historic process of the case in a short but immensely powerful b...

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