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The Condor Years: How Pinochet and His Allies Brought Terrorism to Three Continents Author: John Dinges $17.13 |
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The Condor Years: How Pinochet and His Allies Brought Terrorism to Three Continents Author: John Dinges $17.13 |
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Avg. Customer Rating: 4.8 / 5.0 
The Condor Years: How Pinochet and His Allies Brought Terror: 
Augosto Pinchet was a great leader and an even greater politician. Prior to his rule the country of Chile has been ruled by incompetent fools with less inteligence then an can of soup. What he did was to turn around a country that was going nowehere fast and he implemented needed change and imprisoned many people whom were a threat to the stabiliy to the country and made the streets safe. Unfortunately many great men, Musolini, are not appreciated for their greatness but are seen with contempt by less...
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I love this book. I actually bought it at the book signing and found John Dinges himself to be an intelligent, modest, interesting man. The book itself goes along the same lines as Assasination on Embassy Row in that it recounts the history but put it into a format that is more like a novel. I read the through the entire thing in one day, and although I thought I had a good working knowledge of Chile during the Pinochet regime, I had not even touched on most of the things recounted in this book.
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This is a breathtaking tour de force by one of the very best U.S. journalists who have written long and hard about Latin America, and although it may be not obvious, the book has eye-opening relevence to Washington's pursuit of al Qaeda. The Washington Post, moreover, cited the author's "subtlety and insight of his account of Condor, in which Pinochet's murderous (my word) "tactics made some sense in the face of the legitimate (if inflated) threat that the revolutionary left represented. More often,...more info
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