“Dear friends,
I wanted to share with you this speech that moved me deeply and has influenced my life since I first read it, during the spring of 1977, in Chile.
At the time Silo made this first public address, the military dictatorship then in power in Argentina had banned all public gatherings in urban areas. Consequently, a bleak spot known as Punta de Vacas, high in the Andes Mountains at the border between Argentina and Chile, was chosen as the location for the…
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