The Amnesty team's mandate was strictly limited: 'the revolutionary cause, either before or after the revolution, was none of our business', one team member stressed. … Despite asking, 'Who are the political prisoners? Why are they detained?' the report answered neither question, instead reverting to the universalising platitude that the 'political prisoners have stemmed from all sections of the Chilean population'. … Here, the coup appeared as the 'year zero' that began history anew – a response to a 'social tension' and 'polarization' whose causes remained unintelligible.

Jessica Whyte, The Morals of the Market, loc. 345