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Peter Kornbluh writes: The international community lost a world-class citizen when John O'Leary died of Lou Gehrig's disease at age 58 on April 2. O'Leary, a former mayor of Portland, Maine, served as US Ambassador to Chile during the period when General Pinochet was detained in London and eventually charged in Chile with human rights crimes. An avid Nation reader, O'Leary championed the declassification of more than 24,000 US government documents on Chile, presented copies to the Chilean national library and insisted that the documents all be posted on the State Department website. He helped to recover history; he helped to redress history, and in so doing he helped to make history.
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