A review by alexisrt
A Nation of Enemies: Chile Under Pinochet by Pamela Constable, Arturo Valenzuela

4.0

This is a bit dated as it was published in 1991, not too long after Pinochet left office and before a great deal of secret intelligence on his regime was release and, and of course, recent events have shown just how severe the consequences of Pinochet's economics were. Unfortunately when I was looking for a book on the topic I didn't seem to find a better, more recent book. Constable and Valenzuela pretty comprehensively cover the regime and its workings, from the DINA to economics. (This book was published near the height of the neoliberal consensus, and is probably gentler than a contemporary take would be, but nonetheless, is blunt about the human and economic cost of the free-market revolution.)