John Dinges has been writing for many years on Latin America. His latest book is The Condor Years: How Pinochet and His Allies Brought Terrorism to Three Continents.
The Boric government can recover from the lopsided rejection of Chile’s new Constitution by harnessing the energy behind the country’s reform movement.
For three years, from 1975 through 1977, the countries in what is
known as the Southern Cone of South America underwent a human rights
crime wave unprecedented before or since in the region.