The disinterred

The past has a way of haunting us. We think we have moved on,but events from long ago keep echoing in our consciousness. Isn’t that what Faulkner so eloquently showed us?

This year marks the fortieth anniversary of the coup in Chile, and because I spent so much time researching the events of that fateful year for my novel, I keep observing significant dates.

Forty years ago on March 4, general elections, which the conservatives hoped would reverse the course of the country’s move toward Marxism...