Pinochet at a rally with regime supporters in 1988. Photo by Marcelo Montecino.
Periodistas extranjeros—mentirosos y embusteros!
Foreign journalists—liars and fabricators!
–a chant by Pinochet supporters
Here, courtesy of YouTube, are two parts of a documentary on the press and the Pinochet regime’s one-man presidential plebiscite in 1988. There are opening remarks by Pinochet speaking to supporters and blasting the foreign press “from Spain, from France, from Germany.”
Here’s Part I: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vwQ2h_qG5-M
and Part II: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pNahTdcVvKw
Notes on the Americas 