Chile in Their Hearts

The Untold Story of Two Americans Who Went Missing After the Coup
1. Auflage 2025
ISBN: 978-0-520-41319-1
Verlag: University of California Press

Buch, Englisch, 287 Seiten, Trade Paperback, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 227 mm, Gewicht: 450 g

Set against the romance of revolution and the terror of a military coup, this arresting mystery is also a reckoning with the callousness of U.S. foreign policy.

In 1972 two idealistic young Americans, Charles Horman and Frank Teruggi, arrived in Chile to participate in President Salvador Allende's socialist and democratic revolution. A year later they were secretly executed as Chile's military, with U.S. backing, deposed Allende. Following a sham investigation and cover-up, a Chilean defector leveled a stunning but ultimately false accusation: a CIA agent was in the room when one of the killings was ordered.

The defector's tale inspired the acclaimed 1982 film Missing and established U.S. involvement as the accepted narrative. But Chile in Their Hearts exposes the tale as a fabrication and leads us to a more intriguing reality. This book will force readers to rethink what they thought they knew about this infamous case. Renowned investigative journalist John Dinges scoured U.S. and Chilean archives and interviewed new witnesses to reveal the true story of the killings and the compelling adventure of the two Americans' lives against the backdrop of U.S. intervention in Chile.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Dinges, John

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie | Volkskunde Volkskunde Historische & Regionale Volkskunde
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Militärwesen Nationale und Internationale Sicherheits- und Verteidigungspolitik
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politische Kultur Menschenrechte, Bürgerrechte
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Amerikanische Geschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Contents

Introduction: Chile's Allure

Part I. Roads to the Revolution
1. Charlie and Joyce
2. Frank
3. Living the "Chilean Process"
4. New York
5. The Coup
6. Valparaiso
7. Vicuña Mackenna

Part II. The Search
8. Missing
9. The Embassy
10. Investigations
11. Distract and Deceive
12. Mr. Horman Goes to Chile
13. Disappeared in Plain Sight

Part III. Unraveling the Truth
14. The Making of "The Man Who Knew Too Much"
15. How and Why
16. Scenario for a Movie
17. A Trial in Chile

Part IV. Conclusions
18. The U.S. Role
19. Leads Not Followed

Acknowledging a Legacy
Sources and Methods
Notes
Index

Über Autor(innen)

John Dinges lived in and reported from Chile during its most violent period (1972–78). A correspondent for the Washington Post, and later managing editor at NPR, he is Professor Emeritus of Journalism at Columbia University. His books include The Condor Years: How Pinochet and His Allies Brought Terrorism to Three Continents.