321. Hi, this is William Ramsey. Welcome to William Ramsey Investigates. On tonight show, I have a very special guest. His name is Alan McPherson. He is the Thomas J. Freeney, Jr. Professor of History and Director at the Center for the Study of Force and Diplomacy at Temple University in Philadelphia. He is a prize-winning author of 10 books and has written many articles, mostly on U.S. Latin American relations.

He has written other books than the book we're going to talk about tonight. Those books are

de-invated how Latin Americans and their allies fought and ended U.S. occupations published January 24th, 2014,

and a short history of U.S. interventions in Latin America and the Caribbean that was published

January 21st, 2016. Tonight Show is going to cover his most recent book, published very recently.

The title of that book is The Ghost of Sheridan Circle, How a Washington assassination brought Pinochet's Terror State to Justice,

and that was published again August 13, 2019,

and his name is Alan McPherson.

Alan, for people who don't know your name,

can you talk a little bit about your background

and how you became interested in this very interesting subject.

I'm sure. I'm happy to. I mean, I've been long interested in Latin America, and I've

been a professor for almost 20 years now. I've written about U.S. Latin American relations

over the course of the 20th century. I got to this, you know, this issue.

I frankly didn't know much about it when I started my,

I was looking for another book project.

And I just started reading broadly about Reagan and Latin America.

What I knew the liturial assassination was that it happened in the 70s,

and I thought it was all over by 1980,

when they essentially captured the bomber. But in reading about Reagan, I realized that the Reagan-pinished-day relationship

was caught up in the sort of consequences of the Latelier assassination. They couldn't

normalize relations until Chile, you know, gave satisfaction to the United

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