Literary Review

Augusto Pinochet ruled Chile from 1973 to 1990. Under his aegis, over three thousand people were killed by agents of the state; many more were tortured. But Pinochet never served a day in prison. An amnesty law in Chile protected him from prosecution for crimes committed during his dictatorship. He was detained in London in 1998 after a judge in Madrid applied for his extradition to Spain – at least one of the victims of his regime was a Spanish national. In the High Court, Lord