6/21/2023 0 Comments Something fierce by carmen aguirreWith conventional day jobs as a cover, she and her new husband moved to Argentina to begin a dangerous new life of their own At eighteen, Carmen herself joined the resistance. As their mother and stepfather set up a safe house for resistance members in La Paz, Bolivia, the girls' own double lives began. Most women sent their children to live with relatives or with supporters in Cuba, but Carmen's mother kept her precious girls with her. In 1978, the Chilean resistance issued a call for exiled activists to return to Latin America. Soon after the coup, six-year-old Carmen Aguirre and her younger sister fled the country with their parents for Canada and a life in exile Thousands were arrested, tortured and killed under General Augusto Pinochet's repressive new regime. On September 11, 1973, a violent coup removed Salvador Allende, the democratically elected socialist president of Chile, from office. "A gripping, darkly comic first-hand account of a young underground revolutionary during the Pinochet dictatorship in 1980s Chile
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