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I Surrender : A Memoir of Chile's Dictatorship, 1975

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In September 1973 a CIA-assisted coup overthrew the democratically-elected president of Chile, ushering in the Pinochet dictatorship. In 1975, Kathleen Osberger, a recent graduate and lay volunteer from Notre Dame, left for Santiago to teach in a Catholic grade school. Upon arrival, she was told a secret: the religious women she would live with sheltered dissidents in the cross-hairs of Pinochet's secret police. Given the ever-tightening vise over the citizenry, brave and prophetic people reached out to protect the dissidents' lives in a world without due process and where detention, torture, disappearance, and death reigned. Soon, Osberger is handed a blindfold, a warrant, and must go on the run.

I Surrender depicts the solidarity of the Chilean people and the transformational role of nuns and priests dedicated to serving the poor, while highlighting the changing and challenged Catholic Church.

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  • ISBN-13: 9781626985476
  • ISBN-10: 1626985472
  • Publisher: Orbis Books
  • Publish Date: August 2023
  • Dimensions: 9.25 x 6.11 x 0.59 inches
  • Shipping Weight: 0.91 pounds
  • Page Count: 296

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