Libros de Heraldo Muñoz (2 libros)

Augusto Pinochet was the most important Third World dictator of the Cold War, and perhaps the most ruthless. In The Dictator's Shadow, United Nations Ambassador Heraldo Munoz takes advantage of his unmatched set of perspectives -- as a former revolutionary who fought the Pinochet regime, as a respected scholar, and as a diplomat -- to tell what this extraordinary figure meant to Chile, the United States, and the world. Pinochet's American backers saw his regime as a bulwark against Communism; his nation was a testing ground for U.S.-inspired economic theories. Countries desiring World Bank...

Un notable retrato, a mitad de camino entre el ensayo y la autobiografía, sobre el Chile de Pinochet. Publicado originalmente en inglés en 2009, este libro que retrata la vida de un militante socialista que el 11 de septiembre se encontraba en la calle con un revolver y dinamita, ofrece nuevas luces sobre la vida política y cotidiana de Chile a partir de 1973 poniendo énfasis, sobre todo, en los múltiples alcances de la figura del dictador: su propio golpe dentro de la junta militar, su rol en el desarrollo económico impulsado por los Chicago Boys, la represión, el intento de asesinato ...