Augusto Pinochet: Chicken Buses and School Life

augusto pinochet: But then, six years later, her mother and stepfather decided to take and her younger sister away from their comfortable school life here, and move back to strife-ridden South America to join the underground resistance, according to Georgia Asian. The ensuing seven years found Aguirre bouncing between Peru, Bolivia, and Argentina via arduous mountain passes, chicken buses, and overnight trains. The first momentous event was in 1973, when General Augusto Pinochet's coup forced her family to flee Chile for Canada. She had to drop all contact with new friends every time her family moved on, living in a constant state of dread that her parents would be arrested. The years of her tumultuous teens are evocatively detailed in her first book, Something Fierce Douglas & McIntyre a new memoir that illuminates what it's like to come of age amid terror. Eventually, at just 18, Aguirre put herself in further peril, joining the resistance against Pinochet's right-wing regime herself. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.