Miguel Littín, 80, has been appointed constitutional advisor to draft a new Magna Carta. He recalls his secret adventures in Congress during the Pinochet dictatorship, immortalized in a book by Gabriel García Márquez.
The sympathizer of Salvador Allende's Popular Unity had to go into exile after the coup d'état of 1973, with 30 years. He was mayor of his native Palmilla, 86 kilometers south of Santiago, in two periods (1992-1994 and 1996-2000).