Gustavo Martin-Montenegro

Prominent community leader Gustavo Martin-Montenegro recounts his upbringing in southern Chile, his political role within Salvador Allende’s government in the 1970s, and his involvement in the agrarian reform program that ceded land rights for the Indigenous Mapuche people. Gustavo also narrates the 11 September 1973 coup d’état, his ensuing imprisonment under the civil-military dictatorship, and how he became one of the first Chilean refugees to receive asylum in Australia in January 1974 (oral history in Spanish).