Word: chileanizing
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...THIS idea that our own government may have authorized the death of Charlie Horman that gnaws at us as an American audience, that we cannot believe. The indiscriminate torturing and killing of hundreds of Chilean civilians in the movie repulses us, but somehow we remain outside, protected from the terror and pain But the killing of an American truly outrages us. What happened to that invisible forcefield of protection that is supposed to surround an American everywhere he goes? Lemmon wonders. And we wonder, too Yet it is only through the death of the young American that our repulsion grows...
...WHILE COSTA GAVRAS condemns the U.S. government for its role in the Chilean revolution he refuses to place the blame solely on the shoulders of the government officials Toward the end of the movie, when it becomes increasingly apparent that Charlie Horman has been shot, Gavras gives these slippery bureaucratic types we have grown to hate their say The U S ambassador to Chile explains to Lemmon that whatever the American government has done in Chile "has been done to protect the American way of life at home" Another official chimes in "and a very good way of life...
...Shea). Basing his narrative largely on Thomas Hauser's 1978 book, The Execution of Charles Horman (reissued in a new paperback as Missing), Costa-Gavras shows the pair running up against a phalanx of American diplomats who profess to be helping but who know all along that the Chilean military authorities have already murdered young Horman. Indeed, the movie goes so far as to suggest that an American official might have cosigned Horman's execution order. Nathaniel Davis, who was U.S. Ambassador to Chile at the time of the coup, rejects this version of events so strongly that...
...last two years, Harberger has continued to work and lecture in Chile as well as meet frequently with many of his former students who currently have positions in the Chilean government, although he said he does not directly advise the government...
Harberger said that during his work there his "interpretation of the Chilean reality has changed." He refused to elaborate on what that reality was but said it would be detailed in a forthcoming book on the Chilean political economy on which he did some work with HIID fellows. "I learned a great deal in the process," he added...