Cardinal Raúl Silva Henríquez, the Catholic Church, and the Pinochet Regime, 1973-1980: Public Responses to a National Security State

Aguilar examines the role of Cardinal Raul Silva Henriquez and his response to an ongoing national crisis through his personal memoirs. He concludes that Henriquez became a defender of human rights and himself an enemy of the Chilean State because of his Christian convictions and his own sense of service to the poor and to the youth in the context of the Catholic Church in Latin America.