Mónica González Mujica (born 24 October 1949) is a Chilean writer and journalist. She won the Maria Moors Cabot Prize in 2002, the Dan David Prize in 2006 and

UNESCO/Guillermo Cano World Press Freedom Prize The UNESCO/Guillermo Cano World Press Freedom Prize, created in 1997, honours a person, organization or institution that has made an outstanding contribution to the defence and/or promotion of press freedom anywhere in the world, especially whe ...

2010.Mónica González Mujica of Chile to receive UNESCO Guillermo Cano World Press Freedom Prize 2010
/ref> From 2005-2006 she was editor of ''Diario Siete'', a daily paper in

Santiago de Chile Santiago (, ; ), also known as Santiago de Chile, is the capital and largest city of Chile as well as one of the largest cities in the Americas. It is the center of Chile's most densely populated region, the Santiago Metropolitan Region, whose ...

which ran for a year. It is from Mónica Gonzales writing in her book on the military coup ''La Conjura. Los mil y un días del golpe'' that we have the account of the 1973 putchist General Arellano claiming that he confronted Pinochet with the stark choice of supporting the coup or assuming the risk of civil war. In the 2013 film ''Viva Chile Mierda'', González was interviewed by film-maker Adrian Goycoolea about her experience during the Chilean coup and her interviews with Andres Valenzuela, a guard who revealed the use of torture by the regime.

Works

*Bomba en una calle de Palermo (1986), with Edwin Harrington. *Los secretos del Comando Conjunto (1989), with Héctor Contreras. *Chile entre el Sí y el No (1988), with Florencia Varas. *La Conjura. Los mil y un días del golpe (2000). *Apuntes de una época feroz. Reportajes y entrevistas en dictadura (2015).

References

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