Pinochet's Plebscite: Choice With No Options
UnpublishedMarch/April
1988
Volume:
22
Number:
2
Report
CARMEN GLORIA QUINTANA SPOKE barely above a whisper: "I would like to believe in this plebiscite, I would like to believe that it will make a difference, but after what this regime did to me, I can't." Quintana's message came at the end of a Latin American Studies Association seminar featuring representatives of Chile's opposition.
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