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Note to moderators: read the answerline carefully. In a novella, parts of this event are interspersed within a list of ancient Greek authors the narrator reads while it is happening. In a fictional analogue of this event, a woman paints sunflowers on the doors of a car that she uses to smuggle people into foreign embassies. The shipping entrepreneurs Mr. Raef and Mr. Etah recruit the Jesuit priest Sebastian (*) Urrutia Lacroix to teach Marxist theory to the instigator of this event in a novella by Roberto Bolaño. (10[1])While living in exile (10[1])in Venezuela following this event, an author wrote a novel ending with a fictional analogue of it, during which Alba is kidnapped by the military and Esteban Trueba comes to power. For 10 points, name this 1973 event (10[1])that prompted Isabel Allende to leave her native country. ■END■

ANSWER: 1973 Chilean coup d’etat [or Augusto Pinochet’s coup or the coup against Salvador Allende; accept synonyms such as Pinochet’s takeover or the ousting of Allende etc.; accept any answer indicating a coup or overthrow and either Chile, Augusto Pinochet, or Salvador Allende that does not introduce incorrect information; prompt on coup or synonyms that do not mention Chile or Pinochet or Allende; before “following,” prompt on Augusto Pinochet's regime or equivalents; accept the 9/11 of Chile; reject “9/11”; reject “Operation Condor”] (Bolaño’s novella is By Night in Chile.)
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