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. While living in exile 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 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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