Camino recorrido

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"In this final(?) installment of his memoirs, Pinochet attributes his defeat in the Oct. 1988 plebiscite to the opposition's demagoguery, the machinations of US Ambassador 'Dirty Harry' Barnes, and the power of foreign money. He claims to have 'expected' defeat well before Oct. 5th, denies attempting to persuade Junta members to nullify the plebiscite's results, and attributes the notion that he was unwilling to relinquish power to unavoidable delays in reporting the vote count and to the perverse imaginations of ideologically blinded journalists"--Handbook of Latin American Studies, v. 57.