• The best books on Pinochet and Chilean Politics - The Pinochet Regime by Carlos Huneeus
  • The best books on Pinochet and Chilean Politics - Battling for Hearts and Minds: Memory Struggles in Pinochet’s Chile, 1973–1988 by Steve J Stern
  • The best books on Pinochet and Chilean Politics - Fear in Chile: Lives Under Pinochet by Patricia Politzer
  • The best books on Pinochet and Chilean Politics - Heading South, Looking North: A Bilingual Journey by Ariel Dorfman
  • The best books on Pinochet and Chilean Politics - Victims of the Chilean Miracle: Workers And Neoliberalism In The Pinochet Era, 1973–2002 by Peter Winn

The best books on Pinochet and Chilean Politics, recommended by Alan Angell

Marshalling one of the first ever televised coups, Chilean dictator Augusto Pinochet’s legacy is fraught. While some apologists try to justify the dictatorship on economic grounds, his time in office saw innumerable human rights abuses. Alan Angell, Emeritus Fellow in Latin American Politics at the University of Oxford, considers the regime of “a very cruel man.”