Towards the end of 2003 my wife, Tia, and I went to Chile. In January 2004, while I attended a constitutional law conference, Tia went riding in the Andes: her account, which accompanied mine, also appears here.

Before that we had stayed for a week with Juan and Inès Guzmán. In London the year before I had met Juan, like me a judge of his country's court of appeal, unlike me a national hero. He had been next on the rota to act as examining magistrate, as required by the constitution, when a criminal information was laid against a public figure. The information he drew was a charge of crimes against humanity laid against General Pinochet the day after the general stepped down from presidential office. It changed Juan's life; it also changed Chile's life. This Diary piece from the London Review of Books in June 2004 records a little of what had been happening since he was thrust into unsought limelight.