‘Chile in Their Hearts' Review: The Perils of Activism
A subplot involves Charles Horman and Frank Teruggi, two young Americans who came south to experience the revolution-by-election known as 'the Chilean process.' Soldiers arrested and murdered Horman and Teruggi, then 31 and 24 respectively, shortly after the coup. Many on the left have long believed that pro-coup U.S. officials were complicit in their deaths.
That suspicion reached the wider public via the Oscar-winning 1982 film 'Missing,' directed and co-written by Costa-Gavras, the Greek-French auteur. In the picture, Horman's father, played by Jack Lemmon, goes to Santiago in search of his son, only to realize that his son has been killed and that American diplomats are stonewalling him. The film strongly implies that Horman, a freelance journalist, had discovered U.S. involvement in the coup and had to be killed lest he report it.
In 'Chile in Their Hearts,' John Dinges—a longtime reporter on Latin America for the Washington Post and other news organizations—renders his verdict on the U.S. role: a definitive 'not guilty.'
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