Lucid, February 8, 2024
With ongoing legal developments in mind, this week I focus on a case study of the horrors that ensue when the rule of law is replaced by rule by the lawless. That case study is Chile during the United States-backed military dictatorship of Augusto Pinochet. It lasted seventeen long years (1973-1990) but the scars of those tortured and forced into exile, and the pain of thousands of families that lost loved ones to murders and disappearances, lived on even once freedom was restored.
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