It is fitting that in 2020, a year of great anxiety in the United States about Russian and Chinese interference in the US presidential race and the possibility of a coup by supporters of Donald Trump, a fine book of Chilean history should appear to thoroughly document the United States' long history of intervention in Chile's elections throughout the 1960s as well as the plots of many venerable Chilean politicians to use constitutional (and extraconstitutional) means to thwart the democratic election of the Socialist president Salvador Allende. While the covert operations of the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) in Chile are well known, the major contribution of Sebastián Hurtado-Torres's The Gathering Storm is to trace the very frank, aboveboard roles that US diplomats played in supporting the Christian Democratic government of Eduardo Frei Montalva (1964–70) and the eager collaboration of many Christian Democrats (as well as other political leaders) with US...

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