Wealthy conservative Chilean elites would have opposed Allende's socialist reforms whether the United States existed or not. Instead, approaching the coup from the perspective of what was happening in Chile allows us to understand deep class conflicts in that society. Even Chile's nationalistic officer corps, as Gustafson notes, find the emphasis on the U.S. government actions tends to disempower Latin Americans, ironically the reverse of what solidarity activists purport to do. government's role while academics tend to look at more factors in explaining the coup. In what I call an academic/activist divide, solidarity activists often denounce the U.S.
This is not as innovative or heretical an argument as it may appear to some on the surface. government played a key role in the overthrow of Allende's leftist government. Gustafson challenges interpretations that the U.S. This book is a minor contribution to a crowded and well-studied field. Particularly notable are Peter Kornbluh's The Pinochet File (2003), Jonathan Haslam's The Nixon Administration and the Death of Allende's Chile (2005), and John Dinges's The Condor Years (2004). Kristian Gustafson, a former Canadian army officer and now a lecturer at Brunel University's Centre for Intelligence and Security Studies in England, points to the best of this literature in a brief historiographic overview at the beginning of the book. It is said that there are a thousand books on the events leading up to and surrounding the Septemcoup in Chile, one for every day that Salvador Allende was in office. It is hard to tell what the purpose or audience is for this book.
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