Mónica González Mujica (born 24 October 1949) is a Chilean

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and

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. She won the

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in 2002, the

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in 2006 and

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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

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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

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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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