Publisher's Synopsis
When Salvador Allende nationalized Chile's huge natural resource of copper mines the intention was socialist, leading to fear of the "domino effect" by Latin American countries. CIA got involved and help orchestrate a military coup, installing Augusto Pinochet in power. Pablo Neruda, a famously communist-sympathizing leftist and national folk hero, dies under mysterious circumstances just after the coup. His house is ransacked, and his funeral sets off major protests against the Pinochet junta. Hagar Peeter's father was a journalist in Chile who covered the funeral protests. His original notes from the events form part of the book. It turns out that later, Peeter's father was helping to orchestrate the world wide labor strike against Pinochet with Orlando Letelier (only person assassinated on US soil by a foreign government [that we know of]). The Dutch port workers in Rotterdam (largest port in Europe) refused the copper showing solidarity with the Chileans.
