STORY OF A DEATH FORETOLD: PINOCHET, THE CIA AND THE COUP AGAINST SALVADOR ALLENDE, 11 SEPTEMBER 1973

Book ID/图书代码： 02000016B92789

English Summary/英文概要： On 11 September 1973, President Salvador Allende of Chile, Latin America’s first democratically elected Marxist president, was deposed in a violent coup d’état. Early that morning the phone lines to Allende’s office were cut, army officers loyal to the republic were arrested and shortly afterwards bombs from four British-made Hawker Hunter jets began slamming into the presidential palace. Allende refused to leave his post, making broadcasts to encourage the Chilean people until the last pro-government radio station was silenced. Later that morning he was found dead, with an AK-47 that had been a gift from Fidel Castro by his side.

The coup had been planned for months, even years before it actually happened. In fact, from the moment Allende’s electoral victory in 1970 became a possibility, business leaders in Chile, extreme right-wing groups, high-ranking officers in the Chilean military and the US administration and the CIA worked together to secure a prompt and dramatic end to his progressive social programme.

Why Allende seemed such a threat in the political and economic context of the time and how the coup was engineered is the story Oscar Guardiola-Rivera tells, drawing on a wide range of sources, including phone transcripts and documents released as recently as 2008. It is a radical retelling of a moment in history that even at the height of Cold War paranoia - a time when Henry Kissinger described Chile as ’a dagger pointed at the heart of Antarctica’ -shocked the world and which continues to resonate today. As the uprisings of the Arab Spring and the global protests at austerity measures introduced since the crash of 2008 show, the world is struggling to deal with the economic and political dilemmas Allende faced at the time.

Chinese Summary/中文概要： 1973年9月11日，拉丁美洲第一位民主当选的马克思主义总统智利总统萨尔瓦多•阿连德在一次暴力政变中被废黜。当天清晨，办公室的电话线被切断，忠于共和国的军官被逮捕，不久之后，四架英国制造的“猎人”号喷气式飞机的炸弹开始袭击总统府。阿连德拒绝离开他的岗位，广播鼓励智利人民，直到最后一家政府广播电台被压制。那天早上晚些时候，他被发现死了，是菲德尔卡斯特罗在他的身边的礼物。

政变已经策划了好几个月，甚至几年前才真正发生过。事实上，从1970年阿连德的选举胜利成为可能，智利的商界领袖极右翼团体。智利军方、美国政府和中央情报局的高级官员共同努力，以确保他的渐进社会方案得到迅速和戏剧性的结束。

为什么阿连德在当时的政治和经济背景下看起来是如此的威胁，以及政变是如何被策划的，这是奥斯卡•瓜迪奥拉•里维拉的故事，他利用了广泛的来源，包括2008年发布的电话记录和文件。这是对历史时刻的一次彻底的重述，甚至在冷战偏执狂的高度-当时亨利•基辛格(亨利)把智利形容为“一把指向南极洲心脏的匕首”-震惊了世界，并继续在冷战中。今天才能引起共鸣。2008年危机以来，阿拉伯之春的起义和全球对紧缩措施的抗议表明，世界正在努力应对阿连德当时面临的经济和政治困境。(WYL)

Awards/获奖情况： 令人着迷...值得赞扬的是“华盛顿邮报”的创意与研究

‘Fascinating … Commendable for [its] originality and research’Washington Post

The author deftly follows two strands - political developments in Chile itself and the global context that rendered a seemingly mild version of Latin American socialism so unpalatable for US government and business interests . He is at his strongest when tracing the social and cultural history of the movement, the "revolution from below" involving "shoemakers, weavers, poets and musicians [and] other areas of social creativity and production, such as factory labour, mural painting and literature" (John Kampfner, Observer)

In Story of a Death Foretold, Oscar Guardiola-Rivera vividly demonstrates the extent of US complicity in the coup that brought Pinochet to power (Observer Books of the Year)

Fascinating. commendable for [its] originality and research (Washington Post)

About the Author/作者介绍： 作者巧妙地遵循了两条线-智利自身的政治发展和全球背景，使看似温和的拉美社会主义成为美国政府和商业利益的令人不快的地方。他在追踪运动的社会和文化历史时，是最强大的，“自下而上的革命”涉及到“造鞋者、织布者、诗人和音乐家”。

[(和)社会创造和生产的其他领域，如工厂劳动、壁画和文学“(约翰，观察员)

在一场死亡事件的故事中，奥斯卡•瓜迪奥拉•里维拉生动地展示了美国参与政变的程度，这场政变将皮诺切特带来了权力(“年度观察家书”)。

很迷人。值得称赞的

The author deftly follows two strands - political developments in Chile itself and the global context that rendered a seemingly mild version of Latin American socialism so unpalatable for US government and business interests . He is at his strongest when tracing the social and cultural history of the movement, the "revolution from below" involving "shoemakers, weavers, poets and musicians [and] other areas of social creativity and production, such as factory labour, mural painting and literature" (John Kampfner, Observer)

In Story of a Death Foretold, Oscar Guardiola-Rivera vividly demonstrates the extent of US complicity in the coup that brought Pinochet to power (Observer Books of the Year)

Fascinating. commendable for [its] originality and research (Washington Post)

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