Great article. Some great shots from your Dad too. It is funny how well photos can denote a time period. Even if I didn't know where or when this was these photos would tell me it was either the 1970s or 1980s.
Sadly this is an all too familiar picture.
It may be a disgusting chapter in American history but if you read the book "Legacy of Ashes" (about history of the CIA) you will see that this kind of behaviour is the norm rather than the exception.
It is often only many years later when the main protagonists are dead and have escaped any hope of justice that the truth usually comes out. Despite the points made about Kissinger as maybe having inadvertently helped the human rights cause it is quite clear that he knew a lot more about what was going on than he would ever admit to.
Pinochet was a war criminal and people like Kissinger supported him - I remember when he was about to be arrested (I was a kid at the time) and various US and UK politicians like Margaret Thatcher were supporting hime.
I knew even then that something was wrong after reading up on it as a child.
Exactly what our western governments are up to to promote "freedom" in our names right now will only become clear to us many years down the line - and by that time another generation of people perpetrating this kind of horrendous stuff will likely get away with it again.
The victims will be long forgotten by then to most of the world and those that remember them will be much smaller in number.
It is sad but I don't see any of this changing in the near future.
This is a wonderful comment. I agree with you that it is terrible what has happened but that sadly it is a common occurrence.. That's amazing that you remember all of this going on from when you were a child!
I was a weird kid lol. I used to be more interested in politics and things then. In some ways I was more like a mini adult!