Alan Angell is an Emeritus Fellow of St Antony's College, Oxford and was formerly a lecturer in Latin American politics at the same institution. Among his books are Politics and the Labour Movement in Chile (1972); En Busca de la Utopia: La Politica Chilena entre Alessandri y Pinochet (1994); and (co-edited with Benny Pollack) The Legacy of Dictatorship: Political, Economic and Social Change in Pinochet's Chile (1993). His next book is Democracy after Pinochet: Politics, Parties and Elections in Chile (Institute for the Study of the Americas, early 2007).

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Augusto Pinochet's supporters make three key claims about his record in office as president of Chile. Alan Angell tests them against reality.