Bosquejos y perfiles

Classified bibliography of publications on various aspects of the economy of Chile - includes general reference works, books, technical reports, periodicals, economic research reports, etc., published in Chile during the period from 1960 to 1968.

"A portrait of one of the founding members and early influential leaders of the Chilean Socialist Party. In the early 1940s, following an abortive attempt at his party's presidential nomination, Schnake abandoned party politics, serving as Chilean Ambassador to Mexico and France under President Juan Antonio Ríos, and later as Minister of Mining under Gabriel González Videla, before going on to the United Nations and later the Inter-American Development Bank"--Handbook of Latin American Studies, v. 57.

Escritos por destacados sociólogos y cientistas políticos chilenos y de otros países latinoamericanos, los textos que conforman este volumen analizan los vínculos entre opinión pública y sistema político en las democracias modernas. Basados en investigaciones originales, ofrecen renovadas evidencias empíricas y rigurosas reflexiones, destinadas a enriquecer los debates conceptuales acerca del tema.

"A gripping study of fates of almost 1,200 Chileans who were arrested in the early years of military rule, were never heard from, and then were executed and buried in unmarked graves throughout the country. The author, a forensic anthropologist, argues for a public accounting of the circumstances of their deaths, the location and proper reburial of the remains of the dead, and the punishment of those responsible for crimes against humanity"--Handbook of Latin American Studies, v. 57.