Editing Isabel Allende (section)

=== Exile in Venezuela ===
In 1973, [[Salvador Allende]] was overthrown in a [[1973 Chilean coup d'état|coup]] led by General [[Augusto Pinochet]].<ref name=Norton>{{Cite book|last1=Puchner|first1=Martin|title=The Norton anthology of world literature|last2=Akbari|first2=Suzanne Conklin|last3=Denecke|first3=Wiebke|last4=Fuchs|first4=Barbara|last5=Levine|first5=Caroline|last6=Lewis|first6=Pericles|last7=Wilson|first7=Emily R|isbn=978-0-393-60281-4|language=en|oclc=1019855443|year=2018|location=New York|pages=1133–1141}}</ref> Isabel found herself arranging safe passage for people on the "wanted lists", which she continued to do until her mother and stepfather narrowly escaped assassination. When she herself was added to the list and began receiving death threats, she fled to Venezuela, where she stayed for 13 years.<ref name="Review" /><ref name="ojito2003">{{Cite news|last=Ojito|first=Mirta|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2003/07/28/books/a-writer-s-heartbeats-answer-two-calls.html|title=A Writer's Heartbeats Answer Two Calls|date=28 July 2003|work=The New York Times|quote=The only relative on her father's side with whom Ms. Allende had remained close was [[Salvador Allende]], the country's democratically-elected Socialist president, who died in the military coup of Sept. 11, 1973 led by [[Augusto Pinochet]]. Two years later Ms. Allende – by then a wife, the mother of two children and a journalist – fled to Venezuela.}}</ref> It was during this time that Allende wrote her debut novel ''The House of the Spirits'' (1982). Allende has stated that her move from Chile made her a serious writer: "I don't think I would be a writer if I had stayed in Chile. I would be trapped in the chores, in the family, in the person that people expected me to be." Allende believed that, being female in a patriarchal family, she was not expected to be a "liberated" person.<ref name=Norton /> Her history of oppression and liberation is thematically found in much of her fiction, where women contest the ideals of patriarchal leaders.<ref>{{Cite journal|last=Dulfano|first=Isabel|date=October 2013|title=A Response to Isabel Allende's Tanner Humanities Center Human Values Speech|journal=Women's Studies|volume=42|issue=7|pages=816–826|doi=10.1080/00497878.2013.820615|s2cid=145191631|issn=0049-7878}}</ref> In Venezuela she was a columnist for ''[[El Nacional (Caracas)|El Nacional]]'', a major national newspaper.<ref name="correaguatarasma2014">{{cite web |last=Correa Guatarasma |first=Andrés|url=http://www.eluniversal.com/internacional/140415/isabel-allende-mis-mejores-amigos-son-venezolanos|language=es|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140425123141/https://www.eluniversal.com/internacional/140415/isabel-allende-mis-mejores-amigos-son-venezolanos|date=15 April 2014|archive-date=25 April 2014|title=Isabel Allende: "mis mejores amigos son venezolanos"|trans-title=Isabel Allende: "my best friends are Venezuelans"|location=[[Caracas]]|publisher=[[El Universal (Caracas)|Eluniversal.com]]|access-date=11 November 2017}}{{Verse translation|lang=es|'''¿Cómo resume su vida de exilio en Caracas?'''<br />Los chilenos nos beneficiamos de Venezuela como miles de miles de otros de Argentina, Uruguay. En ese momento Venezuela era el segundo país más rico del mundo. Era un país generoso, abierto. Por eso siento mucho dolor con lo que está pasando. Tengo muchos amigos allí, mi hijo se casó con una venezolana, mis nietos nacieron en Venezuela, mi hermano con toda su familia vive en Venezuela. Mis mejores amigos son de Venezuela.|'''How do you summarize your life in exile in Caracas?'''<br />We Chileans benefit from Venezuela like thousands of thousands of others from Argentina, [[Uruguay]]. At that time Venezuela was the [[Economy of Venezuela#1960s–1990s|second richest country]] in the world. It was a generous, open country. So I feel a lot of pain with what is happening. I have many friends there, my son married a Venezuelan, my grandchildren were born in Venezuela, my brother lives in Venezuela with his whole family. My best friends are from Venezuela.}}</ref>