During the 16 years of Pinochet s reign, 1,100 people were officially registered as "forcibly disappeared." Only 104 bodies were ever found, although local communities put this figure much higher.
State-sponsored disappearance plays into the most primal of human fears – to vanish without a trace. The modern era started with Chile’s US-backed coup on September 11 1973
Chile under Pinochet was the experimenting ground for an economic project, neoliberalism, that inspired both Ronald Reagan and Margaret Thatcher. It was also a laboratory for torture and enforced disappearance of human beings, writes Brad Evans.
By Brad Evans
University of Bath
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