The Pinochet Case

Scholarly treatments of the issues at play in the Pinochet affair are only
beginning to emerge, and — given the significance of the issues — there is
clearly a need for sustained and rigorous research. The present paper is intended
to provide a synthesis of events so far and some tentative pointers for
further work. In form it is divided into two parts. The first is an essay which
attempts both to explain the origins and progress of the Pinochet case and
then to offer an initial, and brief, review of some of the issues raised and their
potential implications. The second part is in the form of a detailed chronology
of the case since Pinochet's arrest, compiled primarily from press sources, but
also drawing on scholarly research. This is intended to provide both the factual
detail and chronological narrative absent from the essay.