At the first stopover in Buenos Aires he escaped and managed to enter Uruguay. The German section of Amnesty International intervened again and his prison sentence was commuted to eight years of exile, and in 1977 he left Chile to fly to Sweden where he was supposed to teach Spanish literature. He was rearrested and given a life sentence (later reduced to twenty-eight years) for treason and subversion.
With the help of a friend who was head of the Alliance française in Valparaíso he set up a drama group that became the first cultural focus of resistance. He managed to escape and went underground for nearly a year. He also acted as a mediator between the government and Chilean companies.Īfter the Chilean coup of 1973 which brought to power General Augusto Pinochet he was jailed for two-and-a-half years and then obtained a conditional release through the efforts of the German branch of Amnesty International and was kept under house arrest. Luis Sepúlveda was politically active first as a leader of the student movement and in the Salvador Allende administration in the department of cultural affairs where he was in charge of a series of cheap editions of classics for the general public.
In 1969, Sepúlveda was given a five-year scholarship to continue his drama studies at the Moscow University, but it was withdrawn after five months on account of 'misconduct' (he attended a party with a Politburo Officer's Wife, which was considered high ofense). He studied theatre production at the National University. Luis Sepúlveda was a Chilean writer, film director, journalist and political activist.
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