# Clandestine in Chile > Mediated Wiki article. Canonical URL: https://mediated.wiki/source/Clandestine_in_Chile > Markdown URL: https://mediated.wiki/source/Clandestine_in_Chile.md > Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clandestine_in_Chile > Source revision: 1332499510 > License: Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/) Report by Gabriel García Márquez This article needs more citations. Please help improve this article by adding citations to reliable sources. Unsourced material may be challenged and removed. Find sources: "Clandestine in Chile" – news · newspapers · books · scholar · JSTOR (February 2014) (Learn how and when to remove this message) Clandestine in Chile First edition cover (Henry Holt and Company) Author Gabriel García Márquez Original title La aventura de Miguel Littín clandestino en Chile Language Spanish Subject Miguel Littín Publication place Chile ISBN 0-8050-0322-3 ***Clandestine in Chile: The Adventures of Miguel Littín*** ([Spanish](/source/Spanish_language): *La aventura de Miguel Littín clandestino en Chile*) is a report, written by [Gabriel García Márquez](/source/Gabriel_Garc%C3%ADa_M%C3%A1rquez), about the [Chilean](/source/Chile) filmmaker [Miguel Littín](/source/Miguel_Litt%C3%ADn)’s clandestine visit to his home country after 12 years in exile. The book was written based on 18 hours of recorded interviews by García Márquez with [Miguel Littin](/source/Miguel_Littin) in 1986. ## Summary After ten years of dictatorship, [Augusto Pinochet](/source/Augusto_Pinochet) issued a list with the names of exiles allowed to return to Chile. Miguel Littín was not included in this list; instead, he found his name in another list of those who were banned from visiting Chile. Littín decided to return to his beloved country anyway by using a false passport, a false career background, a false excuse, and even a false wife. During his visit Miguel, disguised as a [Uruguayan](/source/Uruguay) businessman, directs three European film crews shooting a documentary about Chilean life under the dictatorship. He shoots interviews with ordinary Chileans and people of organized [resistance movements](/source/Resistance_movement) who operate underground. He obtains an interview with a resistance leader, being led blindfolded to a clandestine hospital where the leader was taken after being rescued from a public hospital a few hours after he survived an assassination attempt by Pinochet’s secret police. He succeeds in his mission and leaves Chile at the moment when the Chilean authorities have almost discovered his presence in the country. The revelations made in his documentary, *[Acta General de Chile](/source/Acta_General_de_Chile)*, are supposed to embarrass the dictatorship by showing its brutality from first hand and all the underground network of young people working to overthrow the dictatorship. ## Censorship See also: [Book burnings in Chile](/source/Book_burnings_in_Chile) On November 28, 1986, the customs authorities seized almost 15,000 copies of García Márquez's book *Clandestine in Chile*, which were later burned by military authorities in [Valparaiso](/source/Valparaiso). Together with them, copies of a book of essays by Venezuelan presidential candidate [Teodoro Petkoff](/source/Teodoro_Petkoff) were also burned.[1] ## Editions in print - [ISBN](/source/ISBN_(identifier)) [0-8050-0322-3](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:BookSources/0-8050-0322-3), Hardcover, [Henry Holt & Company](/source/Henry_Holt_%26_Company), 1987 - [ISBN](/source/ISBN_(identifier)) [1590173406](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:BookSources/1590173406), Paperback, [New York Review of Books](/source/New_York_Review_of_Books), 2010[2] ## References 1. **[^](#cite_ref-1)** [14,846 Books by Nobel Prize Winner Burned in Chile](https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1987-01-25-mn-5720-story.html), *LA Times*, January 25, 1987 1. **[^](#cite_ref-2)** ["Clandestine in Chile_ The Adventures of Miguel Littin (Paperback)"](http://www.wordbookstores.com/book/9781590173404). WORD bookstores. Retrieved July 25, 2016. v t e Works by Gabriel García Márquez Novels In Evil Hour One Hundred Years of Solitude The Autumn of the Patriarch Chronicle of a Death Foretold Love in the Time of Cholera The General in His Labyrinth Of Love and Other Demons Memories of My Melancholy Whores Until August Short stories "Leaf Storm" "No One Writes to the Colonel" "Big Mama's Funeral" "The Incredible and Sad Tale of Innocent Eréndira and Her Heartless Grandmother" "Strange Pilgrims" "A Very Old Man with Enormous Wings" "The Handsomest Drowned Man in the World" Non-fiction The Story of a Shipwrecked Sailor The Fragrance of Guava Clandestine in Chile News of a Kidnapping Living to Tell the Tale Other works El año de la peste The Solitude of Latin America Miscellaneous Macondo --- Adapted from the Wikipedia article [Clandestine in Chile](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clandestine_in_Chile) by Wikipedia contributors ([contributor history](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clandestine_in_Chile?action=history)). 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