On September 11th 1973, the US-backed Chilean military overthrew the elected government of Salvador Allende and promptly tried to smash the left once and for all in a following reign of terror. In this book, fifteen refugees from the Junta's terror describe what it was like in the first days of the coup.
Their statements provide a gripping a terrifying account of how the Junta began to carry out its goal. They tell the story of how commonplace things like tortures, house-to-house searches, incarceration without trial and indiscriminate executions became in post-Allende Chile.