Book burnings in Chile

Book Burnings in Chile occurred during the presidency of Augusto Pinochet. After he led the 1973 Chilean coup d'etat, his Junta government confiscated and often destroyed literature considered subversive as a policy. Leftist literature was the main target, but other books that did not fit the junta's ideology were also burned, often for part of a campaign to "extirpate the Marxist cancer."

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