Chile: Under Military Rule

This collection of polemics, letters, documents, and articles contains a wide variety of interesting material, much of it accounts of torture and other violations of human rights during and immediately following the golpe of September 11, 1973. There are 60 selections averaging about two pages each, arranged under such subtitles as, Counterrevolution; Life Under the Junta; Human Rights and Justice; Critics and Defenders; Chile in the U. S. Congress; The International Response; The Church and Chile; The Economic Dimension. As a whole, the collection is decidedly anti-junta and does not attempt to present a balanced view of either the circumstances leading up to the military take-over or subsequent events. To cite just one example among many, in the bibliography a publication sympathetic to Allende is described as “solidly documented, logical in analysis”; while a critique of the Popular Unity government by Robert Moss is referred to as “. . .a publication as reactionary as Chile’s El Mercurio . . .” (p. 159). Nonetheless, although this collection does not tell the whole story, it does present the reader with one important view and a great deal of valuable and, for the most part, well-documented information.