Chile in Their Hearts: The Untold Story of Two Americans Who Went Missing After the Coup by John Dinges. University of California Press, 2025. 287 pages.
Their fate reminds us of the long-term consequences that permitting lawlessness and lies from a government can have, how those qualities can corrupt the moral compass of officials who, through their inaction and silence, become complicit in the repression. Today, the United States itself veers toward authoritarianism, abrogates civil rights, and persecutes its opponents. An unavoidable question arises: are we that far from turning a tale about Chile yesterday into a story about America today?