He was rearrested and given a life sentence (later reduced to twenty-eight years) for treason and subversion. With the help of a friend who was head of the Alliance française in Valparaíso he set up a drama group that became the first cultural focus of resistance. He managed to escape and went underground for nearly a year. He also acted as a mediator between the government and Chilean companies.Īfter the Chilean coup of 1973 which brought to power General Augusto Pinochet he was jailed for two-and-a-half years and then obtained a conditional release through the efforts of the German branch of Amnesty International and was kept under house arrest. Luis Sepúlveda was politically active first as a leader of the student movement and in the Salvador Allende administration in the department of cultural affairs where he was in charge of a series of cheap editions of classics for the general public. After High School in Santiago, he studied theatre production at the National University of Chile. His father, José Sepúlveda, was a militant of the Chilean Communist Party and his mother, Irma Calfucura, was a nurse of Mapuche descent. Luis Sepúlveda was born in Ovalle, Limarí Province in 1949.
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