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Chile in Their Hearts, with John Dinges (Modern Chile Interview 1)
We are excited to be joined on today’s show by investigative reporter and writer John Dinges.
John Dinges has decades of experience covering Latin America, including as a foreign correspondent in Chile, El Salvador, Guatemala, and Nicaragua in the 1970s and 1980s. He has worked for such publications as The Washington Post and NPR. While living in Chile between 1972 and 1978, he helped create three Chilean media organizations, including one of the leading investigative news magazines exposing military abuses under General Augusto Pinochet. He is currently the Godfrey Lowell Cabot Professor Emeritus of Journalism at Columbia University.
On today’s episode, we discuss his most recent book, Chile in Their Hearts, which tells the story of two young Americans murdered in the aftermath of the 1973 Chilean coup. During our conversation, we unfold the murder mystery, challenge the narrative of the murders presented by the popular 1982 Costa-Gavras film Missing, and discuss possibilities for truth and reconciliation within the United States.
Show Notes
Purchase a copy of Chile in Their Hearts here
John Dinges’s website
Credits
Theme music by our youngest brother Tate.
Cover art by Arthur Santoro.
Get full access to The History Onion at historyonion.substack.com/subscribe
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By History OnionWe are excited to be joined on today’s show by investigative reporter and writer John Dinges.
John Dinges has decades of experience covering Latin America, including as a foreign correspondent in Chile, El Salvador, Guatemala, and Nicaragua in the 1970s and 1980s. He has worked for such publications as The Washington Post and NPR. While living in Chile between 1972 and 1978, he helped create three Chilean media organizations, including one of the leading investigative news magazines exposing military abuses under General Augusto Pinochet. He is currently the Godfrey Lowell Cabot Professor Emeritus of Journalism at Columbia University.
On today’s episode, we discuss his most recent book, Chile in Their Hearts, which tells the story of two young Americans murdered in the aftermath of the 1973 Chilean coup. During our conversation, we unfold the murder mystery, challenge the narrative of the murders presented by the popular 1982 Costa-Gavras film Missing, and discuss possibilities for truth and reconciliation within the United States.
Show Notes
Purchase a copy of Chile in Their Hearts here
John Dinges’s website
Credits
Theme music by our youngest brother Tate.
Cover art by Arthur Santoro.
Get full access to The History Onion at historyonion.substack.com/subscribe