Flight from Chile: An Oral History of Exile Wright Thomas
Flight from Chile: An Oral History of Exile Wright Thomas 2023 marks the fiftieth anniversary of General Pinochet's coup on September 11, 1973. Over the next fifteen years some two hundred thousand…
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Flight from Chile: An Oral History of Exile Wright Thomas
2023 marks the fiftieth anniversary of General Pinochet's coup on September 11, 1973. Over the next fifteen years some two hundred thousand Chileans sought exile in countries around the world. During the wave of mass arrests, torture, and executions that followed, people began fleeing Chile.
But their zeal and solidarity with other refugees often failed to sustain families. Out of their anguish and anger come these moving and powerful testimonies of their fractured lives--the first oral history of the Chilean diaspora, now revised and updated.Many who fled had been tortured, and they clung to the principle that the dictatorship was an evil that had to be destroyed. Many marriages collapsed, and children lost interest in their native land and culture.
After civilian rule returned in 1990, many returning exiles felt estranged from a homeland forever changed. This timely update
History of Flight