"It was a whim": The story of the 15,000 books that Pinochet burned Gabriel García Márquez

In November 1986, the dictatorship ordered the seizure of the clandestine Miguel Littin book in Chile of the winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature when he was on his way to Santiago. On October 28, 1986, after several days of travel, the Peban, a Panamanian-flagged steamer, finally docked in the Chilean port of Valparaíso. … Read more

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