Clandestine in Chile

In 1973 the film director Miguel Litt&#237;n 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 Litt&#237;n returned to Chile disguised as a Uruguayan businessman. He was desperate to see the homeland he&#146;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&#146;s benighted Chile&#151;a film that would capture the world&#146;s attention while landing the general and his secret police with a very visible black eye. <br><br>Afterwards the great novelist Gabriel Garc&#237;a M&#225;rquez sat down with Litt&#237;n 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 Garc&#237;a M&#225;rquez wrote it down.<i> Clandestine in Chile</i> is a true-life adventure story and a classic of modern reportage.