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Something Fierce Memoirs of a Revolutionary Daughter
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- ISBN: 9781553657910 (electronic bk.)
- ISBN: 1553657918 (electronic bk.)
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1 online resource (349 p.) - Publisher: New York : Douglas & McIntyre, 2011.
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| General Note: | Description based upon print version of record. |
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| Subject: | Aguirre, Carmen -- 1967- Authors, Canadian -- Biography Chile -- History -- 1973-1988 POLITICAL SCIENCE / Political Process / Political Advocacy |
| Genre: | Electronic books. |
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A gripping, darkly comic first-hand account of a young underground revolutionary during the Pinochet dictatorship in 1980s Chile. On September 11, 1973, a violent coup removed Salvador Allende, the democratically elected socialist president of Chile, from office. Thousands were arrested, tortured and killed under General Augusto Pinochet's repressive new regime. 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. In 1978, the Chilean resistance issued a call for exiled activists to return to Latin America.
