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Enforced Exile
Christina Navarrete recalls the sadness at being forced to leave Chile - and her family
"For many years, we lived, really, to go back to Chile."
Christina Navarrete, a Chilean exile living in England. She talks about being detained, tortured, and forced to leave Chile after supporting the Allende government in 1976.
"The hardest part for me in exile has been undoubtedly to leave my family... My wonderful Sunday lunches we had every Sunday in my mother's house, with my sister and my brother-in-law, all the children. My mother would be cooking the whole day, but she was so happy because we were all together. And for that to disappear, just like that, from one day to another because of a military coup..."
