Author Jaime Espinoza's new book "The Wish to Live: My Fight to Survive" is the true story of his experience in a Chilean concentration camp from 1973 to 1975.
Recent release "The Wish to Live: My Fight to Survive" from Page Publishing author Jaime Espinoza is a riveting memoir detailing his childhood in Chile to his military service and adventures as a sailor in the Chilean Navy. Falsely accused of sedition and rebellion in the 1973 coup that overthrew the Allende government and established a repressive military junta violently suspicious of any whisper of left-leaning sympathies.
HICKSVILLE, N.Y., Dec. 6, 2019 /PRNewswire-PRWeb/ -- Jaime Espinoza, a former member in the Chilean Navy who emigrated to the United States, has completed his new book "The Wish to Live: My Fight to Survive": a poignant and inspiring tale of oppression, survival, and truth.
The book describes in an entertaining way the life of the author from his childhood, with the antics of his age; his connection and stay in the Chilean Navy, the adventures he lived as a sailor on the Quiriquina Island, the naval base of Punta Arenas, and Valparaiso; his detention in the Quinta normal Santiago de Chile, in the jails and concentration camps, the torments he had to endure and the several times he was one step away from death, accused unjustly of sedition and mutiny in the trial of sailors constitutionalists, who opposed the military coup of September 11, 1973, although he rejected the seditious plans of the Navy officially, was not part of the group and his opposition was purely personal.
It is human work that shows openly the horrors committed by some military regime that lived in Chile for 1973 – 1990.
To write this book, the author traveled back to the past in the time he lived what happened; is written using the same language without sparing the original vocabulary of the youth of those years, remembering the moment, without thinking about grammar, presenting the reader the opportunity to live and feel the drama of the situation.
The action, the adventure, and the drama are narrated with feeling, laughter, and tears of a human being.
Published by Page Publishing, Jaime Espinoza's engrossing book is a compelling fist-hand account of the atrocities committed by the Pinochet dictatorship between 1973 and 1990.
Readers who wish to experience this enthralling work can purchase"The Wish to Live: My Fight to Survive" at bookstores everywhere, or online at the Apple iTunes store, Amazon, Google Play, or Barnes and Noble.
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