In this guest post, Mary Helen Spooner, author of The General’s Slow Retreat: Chile after Pinochet (UC Press, June 2011) sheds light on the chilling case of Professor Boris Weisfeiler, one of thousands who disappeared during Pinochet’s regime.

Professor Boris Weisfeiler

Chile’s American Desaparecido
by Mary Helen Spooner

He was respected mathematician who had published over three dozen [more...]