20 January 2020
In more than 40 years as a journalist, I've interviewed some terrifying people. Manuel Contreras, Chile's chief of secret police, who ordered the torture and murder of tens of thousands of people. Roberto d'Aubuisson, head of El Salvador's right-wing death squads. I've sat face-to-face with rapists, dirty cops, Ku Klux Klansmen, neo-Nazis-and yet only one person I've written about has truly haunted me.
