The Academic

Steve Stern: A history professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, Stern specializes in historical memory and political violence in Latin America. I was first introduced to his work in Chile when I read an excerpt from “Remembering Pinochet’s …

General Augusto Pinochet was the Commander-in-Chief of the Army from 1973-1998, and “President” of Chile from 1973-1990. He was one of only two Army commanders in the nation’s history to hold both titles simultaneously, and the only one to have …