I come from a long line of politically active family members who were active socialists in Chile in the 1970s. So when the coup led by Pinochet occurred, it was inevitable my family was going to be targeted. My uncle was arrested and tortured, then disappeared. And my mother, a young teenager, was followed by the secret police, who psychologically tortured her by telling her they were going to rape her and kill her brother.
Later, she became a nurse and provided nursing care to political prisoners, where is where she met my father, and they fell in love and . . .