Question

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 (15[1])Sebastian (-5[1])(*) Urrutia Lacroix to teach Marxist theory to the instigator of this event in a novella (10[1])by Roberto Bolaño. While living in exile in Venezuela following this event, (10[1])an author (10[1])wrote a novel ending with a fictional analogue of it, during which Alba is kidnapped (10[1])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. (10[1])■END■

ANSWER: 1973 Chilean coup d’etat [or 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, Pinochet, or Salvador Allende; prompt on coup or synonyms that do not mention Chile or Pinochet or Allende; accept the 9/11 of Chile; reject “9/11”] (Bolaño’s novella is By Night in Chile.)
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