Ariel Dorfman is now a professor of Latin American Studies at Duke University. He used to teach in Chile until the CIA staged a coup there.
http://www.adorfman.duke.edu/
He and Armand Mattelart decoded the American imperialist propaganda in Disney's (CIA for kidz!-as I know Disney to be) Donald Duck back in 1971.
http://www.amazon.com/How-Read-Donald-Duck-Imperialist/dp/0884770230
Here are some examples:
http://www.adorfman.duke.edu/
(click on "from the vaults" bottom left of screen, then "Donald Duck")
Their book came out in 1975, after many of Dorfman's friends from the University of Chile had been tortured and killed by the U.S.'s new dictator, Augusto Pinochet, installed after the CIA's 9/11/73 coup-
http://www.progressive.org/mag_intv_dorfman
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Ariel Dorfman: Violence passed me by. Death decided not to take me. I should have been at La Moneda Palace with Allende; I had become a collaborator of one of his chiefs of staff. My life has consisted of a series of encounters with death and is fundamentally about how I've escaped death. But in escaping death, I also had to escape my country. So I went into exile and became the person I now am.
Q: Why weren't you at La Moneda?
Dorfman: There were a series of interconnected miracles behind my not being at La Moneda that fateful day. I should have been at the palace, but I switched places with one of my good friends. He died instead of me. It was just a total coincidence. I was scheduled not to go to the palace that morning because I had invented a cartoon character who I was trying to get on national television. Later, I discovered something else: Somebody should have called me. There was a list of people who were supposed to be called in the event of an emergency. But nobody called me. They let me sleep that morning. I was never able to understand this. Then, three years later, I met the man who was in charge of the list, Fernando Flores. By then, I had essentially figured out myself why I had been spared. He told me he had crossed my name off the list when the time came. I asked him why he did this. He then looked inside himself at the person he had once been, as if consulting that past self, and said, "Well, someone had to live to tell the story."
Ariel Dorfman has a blog at The Guardian in the UK.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/theobserver/1999/mar/28/featuresreview.review2
From 1999, after General Pinochet had been arrested in the UK-
As a child, growing up in New York during the Forties and Fifties, I had been raised on Disney fare and one of my earliest favourites was the cartoon version of how Practical Pig constructed a brick house that could withstand the huffing and puffing of the Big Bad Wolf. I ripped into the bland Disney tale with gusto, exploring the hidden political, sexual and even ecological meanings buried in the original cartoon. In one variation, I made the wolf into a rebel against society - a hero, on the run and wounded, seeking refuge in one house after another and never finding it. Behind this vision was my infatuation - shared by my generation - with Ernesto Che Guevara, the Argentine-Cuban revolutionary who had been murdered in 1967 while trying to lead a peasant uprising in Bolivia. The villain in my story was Practical Pig who, as far as I can remember, represented some bizarre cross of CIA agent and rampant capitalist, eager to kill the hunted guerrilla wolf.
Ah, "Practical Pig." I have the 1967 vinyl record of this Disney version of the old 'Three Little Pigs' complete with booklet.
The pig who built a brick house is named "Practical" and uses a gun on the wolf PLUS uses a 'lie detector' to justify...torturing the wolf at great length.
Thus Disney's 1967 Vietnam-era "Practical Pig" has now become the Dan Mitrione of children's fables deploying "The precise pain, in the precise place, in the precise amount, for the desired effect.".
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dan_Mitrione
The CIA's torture guru, Dan Mitrione, was the Reverand Jim Jones' childhood friend from Indiana and later his CIA case officer.
http://www.jimhougan.com/JimJones.html
