Black Cocaine

Incoming Editorial·Reviewed April 23, 2026

The discovery of audio tapes recorded by Eugenio Berríos, known as the "chemist of Augusto Pinochet", forms the basis for reconstructing his rise and fall. His life traces a thin black line through Chile's recent history—dictatorships, lethal poisons, and mountains of cocaine—within a political life so violent it ultimately led to his own self-destruction.