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LASTRA, Soledad  e  PENALOZA PALMA, Carla. Refugees in dictatorship. Chileans in the Argentine embassy. Perf. latinoam. [online]. 2016, vol.24, n.48, pp.83-109. ISSN 0188-7653.  https://doi.org/10.18504/pl2448-004-2016.

In the historiography of the massive political exiles in the Southern Cone, the field of diplomatic asylum offers an area of vacancy. This article review the experience of Chileans that received asylum in the Argentinean embassy in Santiago de Chile from the military coup d'état in September 11 1973 until 1974. The article explore the way people have got in to the embassy, the relationships between diplomatic personal and the asylees and the everyday life and the finally travel to Argentina. This work pays special attention to the way political dynamics in Chile and Argentina experienced this process. The article addressed an algid point of two national histories and analyses the political asylum experience in its multiple facets and complexities.

Palavras-chave : Diplomatic asylum; exiles; repression; experiences; Embassy of Argentina; Chile.