Being Luis: A Chilean LifeLuis Muqoz is one of the few survivors of torture under Pinochet's military regime. His autobiography is a story of love, life, death and survival, recounting Chilean history from the 1960s to the present. It charts his magical, but at times harsh childhood, his undercover activity as a left-wing activist, his arrest and torture by the military regime and his eventual exile to England. John McCarthy CBE praised Being Luis saying, "This is a wonderful and important book; tragic, funny, pathetic and brave, all the very best and worst of human nature." |
Contents
Coup | 1 |
Family | 7 |
Love and politics | 24 |
Arming the resistance | 49 |
Desert | 78 |
Stalking the CIA | 89 |
Chaos | 98 |
Maria Cristina | 102 |
Diana Aron and Anita Maria | 135 |
Sweet voices singing | 150 |
Tres Alamos | 157 |
Puchuncaví | 176 |
In exile | 197 |
Primal therapy | 204 |
Facing my demons | 208 |
Rebirthing | 248 |
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