Ariel Dorfman, BBC News, October 6, 1999. Retrieved September 21, 2013.
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I think the Pinochet trial has forced us look one another in the face … to speak to one another, to understand the past and understand that time is not going to solve the problem. In a way it has been a victory for the dead of Chile.
— Ariel Dorfman on Augusto Pinochet
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Source: Wikiquote: "Augusto Pinochet" (Quotes about Pinochet)
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About Ariel Dorfman
Vladimiro Ariel Dorfman (born May 6, 1942) is an Argentine-Chilean-American novelist, playwright, essayist, academic, and human rights activist.
About Ariel Dorfman
Vladimiro Ariel Dorfman (born May 6, 1942) is an Argentine-Chilean-American novelist, playwright, essayist, academic, and human rights activist.
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