This is CBS I on the World with John Bachelor.

Here's John Bachelor.

The New World Report with Professor Evan Ellis, the Latin American Research Professor

for the U.S. Army War College Strategic Studies Institute.

We begin with the question of violence, political violence,

in the Americas, in my memory and in the professors learning. What the events of these last

days have taught us is that it's not rare.

You reach back in the European history and political violence is everywhere, most infamouslyously 1914 in Sarajevo leading to the

destruction of European order that continues to this day however we're turning to the Americas and disorder.

Professor, a very good evening to you. My memory as a young person is in 1972-73 when I was living in New York with a large group of people coming in and

out, lots of visitors. And there was one young man who was from Chile and returned to Chile in the fall of 72 to my mind and the people

who knew him were always concerned for his fate because there was the upset the turmoil the political

confrontation in Chile under Salvador Yende a man who was an avowed

sympathizer to the communist regime in Moscow and elsewhere.

He was a socialist, but he talked in terms of Marxism.

And he became the focus of the United States, especially under the, at that point,

reelected Richard Nixon and his counselor Henry Kissinger, leading to violence that led to Jendy's death. The young man I knew or

thought I knew, at least I think I saw him. At the time he went to Chile but they didn't hear from the people who knew him didn't hear from him for a long time and I lost track

There was always the possibility that he disappeared or was the disappeared because Chile turned into anarchy for quite some time.

That's my earliest memory.

Now is that in your understanding, is that an exceptional case or is that something that is repeated throughout America's history a major

disruption and people disappearing and they're never being an explanation good

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