1970-1973

Chronicles twenty years of American policy and operations in Chile from 1970 to 1990, recounting Washington's role in the consolidation of General Augusto Pinochet's regime, as well as U.S. knowledge of his gross violations of human rights and acts of international terrorism.

Follows the life of the man who served in Chile as the first Marxist to be freely elected to lead a nation of the Western Hemisphere, until military leaders overthrew his government in 1973.