In 1973, the film director Miguel Littìn 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, Littìn 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 promote tourism, he would secretly put together a film that would tell the truth about Pinochet's benighted Chile-a film that would capture the world's attention while landing the general and his secret police with a very visible black eye.
Afterwards, the great novelist Gabriel Garcìa Márquez sat down with Littìn to hear the story of his escapade, with all its scary, comic, and not-a-little surreal ups and downs. Then, applying the same unequaled gifts that had already gained him a Nobel Prize, Garcìa Márquez wrote it down. Clandestine in Chile is a true-life adventure story and a classic of modern reportage.
| ISBN: | 9781590173404 |
| Publication date: | 15th July 2010 |
| Author: | Gabriel García Márquez, Miguel Littín |
| Publisher: | New York Review Books |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Pagination: | 116 pages |
| Series: | New York Review Books Classics |
| Genres: |
History of the Americas Filmmaking and production: technical and background skills Politics and government |