Episode 5
Secret police, paranoia and mistrust as the resistance begins to falter. Coming-of-age memoir concluded by Mia Soteriou.
Mia Soteriou reads Carmen Aguirre's coming-of-age memoir of life as a revolutionary in Latin America.
Born a week after the death of Che Guevara, Carmen Aguirre was always destined to become a revolutionary. After Pinochet's coup in Chile in 1973, her family is forced to flee to Canada, but a few years later return to join the underground movement against Pinochet. And so Carmen's double life begins. Posing as a westernised teenager by day, at night she is drilled in surveillance techniques, cryptography and subterfuge, until she finally takes the resistance oath herself.
Today: secret police, paranoia and mistrust, as the resistance begins to falter...
Author: Carmen Aguirre.
Reader: Mia Soteriou.
Abridger: Richard Hamilton
Producer: Justine Willett.
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