La Caravana de la Muerte: Las Victimas de Pinochet = The Caravan of Death

In October 1973, shortly after General Augusto Pinochet overthrew Chile's democratically elected government and imposed a military dictatorship, a delegation of army members helicoptered down the country's coastline, rounding up and killing at least 72 political opponents in the course of a few days. This operation, which is now known as the ""Caravan of Death,"" has recently come under renewed scrutiny in Chile because it may be one of the few military crimes exempt from the amnesty law Pinochet left in place when he ended his rule in 1990. S nchez's book adds an intensely human perspective to this history and thus to the debate about whether the Chilean military should be tried for these assassinations. A stunning and somber collection of photographs and first-person accounts, the book presents a short biography of each of the Caravan's victims, as well as the story of how each bereft family has tried to seek justice. As Nobel prize winner Jos Saramago explains in the introduction, ""This book speaks of pain and injustice...of the tortured and the disappeared.... Here speak those who know that they will die, and also those who are alive, who hour after hour, year after year, carry these deaths with them so they will not be forgotten."" An important addition to any collection of Latin American history, this book is recommended for all libraries and bookstores. Marcela Vald s, Columbia Univ., New York