The Investigative Brigade: Hunting Human Rights Criminals in Post-Pinochet Chile

by Pascale Bonnefoy

Book Overview

During the seventeen-year Pinochet dictatorship, more than three thousand Chileans were murdered or disappeared without a trace. In 1991, a year after the brutal military regime ended, the new civilian government tasked the nation's detective force to investigate these crimes. Chilean journalist Pascale Bonnefoy tells the dramatic story of the detectives who hunted down and attempted to bring human rights violators to account. Led by a tiny group...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 146967016X
• ISBN13: 9781469670164
• Release Date: September 2022
• Publisher: University of North Carolina Press
• Length: 334 Pages
• Weight: 1.13 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.1" x 9.2"