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5 of 7 people found the following review helpful:
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The journalist Patricia Politzer does a good job at showing that this is not a black and white piece of history, but many colors in between. People interviewed tell their story and explain why they have taken a given stand. Maybe because its isolated geography, Chile has a history that is not as polarized as other neighbouring countries. For example, a regular family...
Published on November 10, 2001 by Mnemosine
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4 of 13 people found the following review helpful:
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The book is Ok, but not quite there. There are interviews from Pro Pinochet people and familiars of the dissapeared. However, I would also have liked to see the opinion of a person whose relatives where killed by communist guerrillas. Also, at the end of the book she tries to portray Allende as the good and Pinochet as the bad guy. That shows she is one sided. Well,...
Published on October 3, 2001 by Ruopollo
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5 of 7 people found the following review helpful:
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By Mnemosine "mnemosine" (Forest Park, IL USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Fear in Chile: Lives Under Pinochet (Paperback)
The journalist Patricia Politzer does a good job at showing that this is not a black and white piece of history, but many colors in between. People interviewed tell their story and explain why they have taken a given stand. Maybe because its isolated geography, Chile has a history that is not as polarized as other neighbouring countries. For example, a regular family would have relatives in the right, the center and the left at the same time, so most chileans knew for a fact that abuses were being made when they were being made for whatever reason. This book shows that sensibility, and has a place in history as well, having helped us chileans to exorcise our fears and get back into democracy.
4 of 13 people found the following review helpful:
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By Ruopollo (Atlanta, GA) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Fear in Chile: Lives Under Pinochet (Paperback)
The book is Ok, but not quite there. There are interviews from Pro Pinochet people and familiars of the dissapeared. However, I would also have liked to see the opinion of a person whose relatives where killed by communist guerrillas. Also, at the end of the book she tries to portray Allende as the good and Pinochet as the bad guy. That shows she is one sided. Well, Politzer was the head of campaign of Chile's current socialist president Ricardo Lagos and she has her own views but I think she still has some emotions in her that don't let her see what happened in Chile with full neutrality.
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Fear in Chile: Lives Under Pinochet by Patricia Politzer (Paperback - June 2001)
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