The news of October 1998 that General Pinochet had been arrested in Britain presaged two years of international interest in the case. This book tells the story of how the dictator's detention has lifted a stranglehold that suffocated Chile's moral sensibility for a generation.
Travelling as a radical journalist in a reactionary world, Marc Cooper chronicles, with humour and detail, the events that make the headlines. He takes readers on a tour of the New World Order - Pinochet's Chile, Nicaragua, El Salvador, Panama, Iraq, Soweto, Moscow and the USA.