Clandestine in Chile

Title: Clandestine in Chile Author: Gabriel García Márquez ISBN: 9781590173404 Publisher: NYRB Classics Published: 2010 Binding: Paperback Language: English Condition: New New from the publisher American History 1667433 Publisher Description: In 1973, the film director Miguel Littín fled Chile after a U.S.-supported military coup toppled the democratically elected socialist government of Salvador Allende. The new dictator, General Augusto Pinochet, instituted a reign of terror and turned Chile into a laboratory to test the poisonous prescriptions of the American economist Milton Friedman. In 1985, Littín returned to Chile disguised as a Uruguayan businessman. He was desperate to see the homeland he'd been exiled from for so many years; he also meant to pull off a very tricky stunt: with the help of three film crews from three different countries, each supposedly busy making a movie to p