Day of Decision: the UK and Pinochet

     This morning, March 24, Spanish news was taken up largely with the decision of the Law Lords in re Pinochet. The case has wide international implications. David Pike, together with Salvatore Bizzarro, both among the most scholarly of the old Bolivar House group, covered the Allende-Pinochet story in a book of which, in a typical gesture of collegiality, David now offers WAISers a FREE copy. This is an offer you cannot resist. David writes:
     "The best account of the antecedents, course and aftermath of the 1973 coup in Chile, friends tell me, is that written by Salvatore Bizzarro and myself. After that immodest outburst, I am pleased to offer any WAISER a free copy of the book:


     LATIN AMERICA IN NIXON'S SECOND TERM
     London: Bennett & Starling, 1982
     ISBN 2-904378-00-6
     290 pp, Illustrated. Cloth. Catalog price $26.


     Among those who endorsed or reviewed the book, Hugh Thomas wrote that it was "of very great value to any student of the affairs of contemporary Latin America." The book, based on THE LATIN AMERICAN YEARLY REVIEW, contains an introductory section on Latin America in Nixon's first term, especially the formation of his Hemispheric policy, and then proceeds on a country by country basis, with General and External sections. Apart from its coverage of Chile under Allende and Pinochet, the book includes among its highlights the return and final exit of Peron, the collapse of democracy in Uruguay, the failure of rapprochement with Cuba, Brazil's economic miracle and the human cost, construction of the Trans-Amazon, Panama and the Canal dispute, the population explosion, confrontation in the OAS, the narcotics trade, the growth of repression, Nixon's "low profile", and the activities of the ITT and CIA.
     WAISERS are asked only to pay for airmailing and packing. Send your check for $8:00, drawn on a US bank, or 4 Sterling or 40 FF drawn on a British or French bank, made out to David Pike and addressed to me at 37 rue Sarrette, 75014 Paris, France."
     My addendum: When campus politics killed the old Hispanic American Report, David founded the Latin American Yearly Review, but the effort proved too much for him. Perhaps it was a good thing, since his new freedom allowed him to continue his research, the result of which has been some important books.

Ronald Hilton - 03/24/99