In Chile
From 1971 to 1973, Cooper served as the Spanish-English translator for Chilean Socialist, Marxist, Leninist president Salvador Allende. Following the military coup of 1973, he fled the country, fearing execution as a participant in the Allende government; some of his American friends were executed by the military, including journalist Charles Horman. In 2002 he testified before a Chilean magistrate in the investigation of Horman's death.
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