Pinochet in Piccadilly Andy Beckett

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Compounding history, investigation and travelogue, this outlines one of the bitterest political stories of our age. In 1973, Pinochet overthrew the Chilean democratic socialist government of Allende. In 1998, Spanish efforts to indict him for crimes against humanity revived the ideological divide.

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Pinochet in Piccadilly Andy Beckett

In October 1998, General Augusto Pinochet, former dictator of Chile, was arrested in London. He had been charged with crimes against humanity by a Spanish magistrate, but over the 16 months that Pinochet was detained, equally intriguing questions went unanswered about his links with Britain. Why was Margaret Thatcher so keen to defend the General? Why was Tony Blair's usually cautious government prepared to have him arrested? And why was Britain the General's favourite foreign country? Andy Beckett offers a compound of history, investigation and travelogue that unravels this strange story.

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You will recall that General Augusto Pinochet was arrested in London in October 1998. The former dictator of Chile had been charged with crimes against humanity by a Spanish magistrate. His ensuing 16-month stay in Britain was, to put it mildly, controversial. Journalist Andy Beckett, who writes for the Guardian, the London Review of Books and the New York Times, provides the historical background to that controversy, taking the story back to the early 1970s, when Pinochet overthrew Salvador Allende's Marxist government. There is much here that makes for uncomfortable reading, not least the detailed account of the unsavoury special relationship between Thatcher's Britain and Pinochet's Chile, a relationship founded on mutual admiration. It's all very embarrassing, politically, and a huge amount of publicity is guaranteed. The Guardian will serialise.

Über Andy Beckett

Andy Beckett was born in 1969. He studied modern history at Oxford University and journalism at the University of California in Berkeley. He is a feature writer at the Guardian, and also writes for the London Review of Books and the New York Times magazine. He lives in London.

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GOR001960035

ISBN 13

9780571202416

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0571202411

Titel

Pinochet in Piccadilly Andy Beckett

Autor

Andy Beckett

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Faber & Faber

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20020520

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288

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