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Soldiers in a Narrow Land (Magill’s Literary Annual 1991-2005)

Of the various dictatorial governments in late twentieth century Latin America, two in particular excited lively controversy in the English-speaking world: the Communist dictatorship of Fidel Castro in Cuba and the anti-Communist dictatorship of General Augusto Pinochet in Chile. Both regimes found favor in some circles in the United States: Castro’s Cuba among ideologues of the Left, and Pinochet’s Chile among ideologues of the Right. Unlike the latter American thinkers, Spooner, an American who spent most of the 1980’s in Pinochet’s Chile as a freelance journalist, views...

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