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The Vasquez family flying out of Chile
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A centenary tour of north-west England uncovers powerful exhibitions and archives connecting the history of the 1926 General Strike with the fights facing workers today. General Strike 100 national co-ordinator HENRY FOWLER reflects on his recent visit to partners in the region
GILBERTO HERNANDEZ is Chilean and lives in Leeds. As a young journalist in 1973, he was imprisoned in Chile because he worked for a newspaper which supported the left-wing government of Salvadore Allende.
Allende’s government was overthrown in the military coup led by Augusto Pinochet, with the complicity of the CIA. Thousands of Allende supporters were murdered or “disappeared.”
Hernandez was freed after international pressure won an agreement from Pinochet’s military dictatorship that political prisoners would be released but on condition they went into exile.
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