“Laughing with the Devil” : this is the title of the latest book by journalist Bruno Patino, president of Arte, published by Grasset. Corresponding to Monde in Chile in the 90s, he managed to meet General Pinochet. A striking face-to-face which he returns to in the last episode of Secrets de Dirigeants.
What would we do against the worst dictator in existence? Question him about his crimes of course, and try to confuse him. Seek confession. This is the mission that Bruno Patino was given in 1992 when he asked for a meeting with Augusto Pinochet, the Chilean dictator. A unique and confusing experience.
For months, he waited and hoped for this meeting with the devil… and when he finally gets it, he laughs with him! “Executioners look like everyone else. But they are not everyone” he said.
Laugh with a man who embodies evil
A laugh which more than 30 years later leads him to question himself. But why did he laugh with this man who embodies absolute evil? It is this meeting, and what he learned from it, that I invite you to discover in this episode of Secrets of Leaders.
He also looks back on an edifying moment in his career: when he went to an interview to be made redundant, he came out with a promotion!
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