History Seminar: ASESOR EN LAS SOMBRAS: Alvaro Puga, propagandista de los servicios de inteligencia de Pinochet

Thursday 20 November, 5:00pm
Main Seminar Room, Latin American Centre, 1 Church Walk, Oxford and Zoom

Convener(s): Eduardo Posada-Carbo

Speaker(s): Juan Cristóbal Peña, Universidad Alberto Hurtado, Chile

To join online, please register in advance: https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/KbVXDl5TQWCP1I0nKS1TiQ

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Libro propagandístico Chile, Ayer y Hoy (1975), impreso por la dictadura de Pinochet., Editora Nacional Gabriela Mistral

Juan Cristóbal Peña Fletcher is a journalist, writer, and professor at Alberto Hurtado University in Santiago, Chile, where currently serves as the Director of the Master’s program in Narrative Writing, focused on non-fiction. His work explores the guerrilla movements during Pinochet's dictatorship, human rights issues, and biographical narratives of oppressors. He has published investigative journalism books such as Sudamerican Rocker (2025), Letras Torcidas. Un Perfil de Mariana Callejas (2024), Jóvenes Pistoleros. Violencia Política en Transición a la Democracia (2019), La Secreta Vida Literaria de Augusto Pinochet (2013), Los Fusileros. Crónica de una Guerrilla en Chile (2007), and La Vida en Llamas (2002). He has been awarded the Lorenzo Natali Prize, Premio Nuevo Periodismo Iberoamericano, Periodismo de Excelencia, Academia Chilena de la Lengua, and Premio Libertad de Expresión José Carrasco Tapia.