Guide to the English Edition

To assist the English reader in understanding the Chilean context of the report, we have added several "Editor's Notes" to further explain concepts, institutions, persons and dates. These notes appear at the bottom of the page where the term is first mentioned. An alphabetical index of these notes immediately follows these comments. Original text notes are found at the end of the chapter in which they appear. At the beginning of each volume is an acronym list.

We are especially grateful to a number of Chileans who have helped us in preparing this translation, particularly those persons mentioned in the Foreward. The following books have also proved usedul: Arturo Valenzuela's The Breakdown of Democratic Regimes: Chile; The Legancy of Hispanic Capitalism by Brian Loveman; La Constitución Política de la República de Chile 1980 Actualizada en 1992; Mario Bernaschina G.'s analysis of the Chilean Constitution of 1925 La Constitución Chilena; Historia de la CUT by Jorge Barría S.; M.I.R. (una historia) by Carlos Sandoval Ambiado; the Comisión Política MIR's El MIR Vive en el Corazón del Pueblo; and A Nation of Enemies: Chile Under Pinochet by Pamela Constable and Arturo Valenzuela.

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Posted by USIP Library on: October 4 2002
Source: Report of the Chilean National Commission on Truth and Reconciliation
(Notre Dame, Indiana: University of Notre Dame Press, 1993), vol. I/II, Guide to English Edition, xxxv.
Note: Digitized and posted by permission of the University of Notre Dame Press, February 22, 2000.