Good sources on Pinochet?

Question

i'm doing a research project on Augusto Pinochet but i'm having trouble finding good sources of information

i have to discuss his political, economic, and social policies/involvement

know of any?

Answer 1

http://www.moreorless.au.com/killers/pinochet.html

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Augusto_Pinochet

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/americas/3758403.stm

http://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/people/p/augusto_pinochet/index.html

http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/COLDpinochet.htm

http://www.nndb.com/people/393/000022327/

http://www.gwu.edu/~nsarchiv/NSAEBB/NSAEBB110/index.htm

Hope these help

Answer 2

A good place to start would be reports filed by Human Rights Watch, Amnesty International and the United Nations. AI was involved from the beginning in trying to bring this monster to justice.

Pinochet was a ruthless dictator installed by the United States after the CIA orchestrated the overthrow of the democratically elected president, Salvador Allende. It's one of the most shameful chapters in American history.

Go to your local library and ask for the Readers Guide to Periodical Literature. This is a year-by-year guide to magazine and journal articles. Look up "Chile," "Pinochet" and "Allende" starting in 1973.

You'll find LOTS of magazine articles citations from the time these events happened. Write down the citations and ask the librarian to get the magazines out of storage for you. Tell the librarian about the topic you're researching. They'll be happy to help you out!

Your local library probably also subscribes to online databases containing articles from scholarly journals, encyclopedias and government documents. Learn how to use these resources - they're pretty easy, trust me - and your homework/projects will be extremely easy to research.

Answer 3

There is a good song by Sting called 'They Danced alone' written in 1986.

While its not exactly a good history source, the song is about the arrest, imprisonment of many of Pinochet's enemies (real or imagine). Many young men were arrested and led off by Pinochet's army to be never seen again.

The song 'They Danced Alone' is all about those young wives left as widows because their husbands had been murdered for voicing opposition to Pinochet's dictatorship. As sting wrote 'imagine your own mother, dancing with her invisible son....'.

"Pinochet sewed a bitter crop...and one day there will be no money for his torturers, no pleasure for his guns".

And the people of Chile overthrew Pinochet and his regime.

Answer 4

If you go over to Wikipedia History of Chile, you will find the Pinochet era. There you will find all the information you need.