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Pedro Lemebel’s Last Supper

By: Juliet Jacques

As Chile emerged from Pinochet’s brutal dictatorship, the stylish and challenging work of poet Pedro Lemebel gave caustic expression to the lives of gender-diverse people, the HIV/AIDS crisis, the Chilean left, and the country’s post-1990 fate.

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Much has been made on the Western left, for good reason, about the Chilean artists and writers who were killed during the CIA-backed counter-revolution of September 1973 and its aftermath, or who devoted their work in exile to criticising Augusto Pinochet’s far-right dictatorship. Poet Pablo Neruda and musician Víctor Jara are rightly seen as martyrs; […]

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Much has been made on the Western left, for good reason, about the Chilean artists and writers who were killed during the CIA-backed counter-revolution of September 1973 and its aftermath, or who devoted their work in exile to criticising Augusto Pinochet’s far-right dictatorship. Poet Pablo Neruda and musician Víctor Jara are rightly seen as martyrs; […]

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Much has been made on the Western left, for good reason, about the Chilean artists and writers who were killed during the CIA-backed counter-revolution of September 1973 and its aftermath, or who devoted their work in exile to criticising Augusto Pinochet’s far-right dictatorship. Poet Pablo Neruda and musician Víctor Jara are rightly seen as martyrs; […]

Much has been made on the Western left, for good reason, about the Chilean artists and writers who were killed during the CIA-backed counter-revolution of September 1973 and its aftermath, or who devoted their work in exile to criticising Augusto Pinochet’s far-right dictatorship. Poet Pablo Neruda and musician Víctor Jara are rightly seen as martyrs; […]

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