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My Invented Country: A Nostalgic Journey through Chile
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Pinochet File: A Declassified Dossier on Atrocity and Accountability
09.07.2003

There’s another September 11th.  On that day thirty years ago, a military coup overthrew Chile’s elected president, Salvador Allende.  Newly declassified documents show the C.I.A.’s extensive involvement in the coup.  On this hour of To the Best of Our Knowledge, the Pinochet file.  Also, stories of disgraced dictators in exile - from Idi Amin to “Baby Doc” Duvalier.

  1. Isabel Allende on September 11, 1973

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    Isabel Allende talks about what happened on September 11, 1973, when a military coup in Chile overthrew her uncle, Salvador Allende.

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  2. Peter Kornbluh on "The Pinochet File"

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    Peter Kornbluh, directs the National Security Archive’s Chile Documentation Project.  He’s just published “The Pinochet File,” which uses recently declassified documents to prove that there was American involvement at the highest levels of government in the efforts to foment chaos in Chile.

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  3. Florencia Mallon on Victor Jara

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    University of Wisconsin historian Florencia Mallon talks about Chilean singer Victor Jara - one of the thousands of Chileans rounded up during the coup and executed.

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  4. Riccardo Orizio on Dictators

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    Italian journalist Riccardo Orizio tracked down seven former dictators living in exile around the world.  He talks about what it was like to meet and talk with them.

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  5. Mario Vargas Llosa on "The Feast of the Goat"

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    Mario Vargas Llosa is one of the godfathers of Latin American writing.  His novel “The Feast of the Goat” deals with the Dominican Republic under the dictatorship of Rafael Trujillo.

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