Miguel Littín clandestino in Chile is a book written by Gabriel García Márquez is a story about the clandestine visit made by the Chilean film director Miguel Littín to his native country after 12 years in exile.
After 10 years of dictatorship, Augusto Pinochet issues a list with the names of the exiles who are already allowed to return to Chile. Miguel Littín is not on this list, on the contrary, he finds his name on another list of people who are prohibited from visiting the country. This fact convinces Miguel that the only way to return to his beloved homeland is through the use of a false passport, a false profession and excuse, and even more, with a false wife. During his visit, Miguel, posing as a Uruguayan businessman, directs three film crews for the production of a documentary about life in Chile under the dictatorship. Consequently, he films interviews with ordinary Chileans and with people from resistance movements that operate clandestinely. Miguel gets an interview with an insurgent leader when he is blindfolded to a clandestine hospital where the leader is being held after he was rescued from a public hospital by a subversive squadron where he was recovering from the injuries caused by a assassination attempt orchestrated by the secret police of Pinochet.
Miguel succeeds in his mission, and leaves Chile at a time when Chilean authorities had discovered his presence in the country and detectives were watching him at the airport. The purpose of the documentary was to show the world the brutal repression during the dictatorship and to embarrass the Pinochet regime by revealing the networks of young people working in Chile to overthrow the dictatorship. Destruction of specimens
The book was published in 1986. In February 1987, the Chilean Ministry of the Interior admitted having burned 15,000 copies of the first edition of Miguel Littín's adventure in Chile clandestinely on November 28, 1986 in Valparaíso followed by orders from Augusto Pinochet This book, when published, raised many expectations as well as controversies, for those people who supported Pinochet. Notes and
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