The other 9/11.

• Author: Sleffel, Linda
• Position: Letter to the editor

Thank you for the outstanding September issue.

You took events I had known about only generally--such as General Augusto Pinochet's coup in Chile--and made them immediate reality. You also brought home the individual suffering.

I can only imagine the courage it took for Joyce Horman ("Missing Charlie, Forty Years Later") to keep speaking out and fighting to make the truth known. That is truly speaking truth to power, and that is what your September issue did.

Linda Sleffel

Columbus, Ohio

Thank you for allowing Joyce Horman to write about the disappearance of her husband, Charles Horman, during the seventeen years of the Pinochet dictatorship in my native country, Chile.

Pinochet's regime was a product of the United States. President Richard Nixon assigned Henry Kissinger to assist in the Chilean coup d'etat on...