The earthshaking news of October 1998 that General Pinochet had been arrested in Britain unleashed two years of international interest in the case and its ramifications for traveling tyrants the world over.
Award-winning journalist Marc Cooper was a translator to President Allende until the coup.
But even after the General\'s return home, the media has ignored the more important story of how his detention lifted a stranglehold that had suffocated Chile\'s moral sensibility for a generation.
The earthshaking news of October 1998 that General Pinochet had been arrested in Britain unleashed two years of international interest in the case and its ramifications for traveling tyrants the world over