philip sherburne

For those interested, post-mortems from Hitchens (who, yeah, is almost intolerable on Iraq, but at least he got it right with Pinochet, early and often) and Marc Cooper, whose Pinochet and Me: A Chilean Anti-Memoir is well worth a read for anyone interested in the United States' complicity in Pinochet's coup.

We didn't make it down to Plaza Italia until after nightfall; the cops had apparently already dispersed all who had gathered there, though the scent of tear gas lingered, debris littered intersections and the odd fire still burned on street corners. All night long, helicopters cruised overhead, strafing the neighborhood with searchlights. Today, the death mask adorns front pages; otherwise business feels very much as usual.