DESERT FLOWERS
Author: (Paul Allen)
The story of brave women of Calama, begins in northern Chile, in the desert of Atacama. In September 1973, after Gen. Augusto Pinochet overthrew the Allende government and seized power, thousands of people began to fade in the cities and towns in Chile, leading to a phenomenon that became known as the "disappearance" : the sudden evaporation of ordinary citizens from their homes, workplaces, universities, not to return to be seen again.
A month after the coup, five soldiers boarded a Puma military helicopter to begin a journey that became known as the Caravan of Death. The soldiers traveled to four cities, stopping at them enough to kill a total of seventy-two people. On October 19, 1973, the Caravan of Death made its last stop in the city of Calama, where twenty-six men were executed and their bodies buried in a secret grave in the desert.
During the first years after these dispassionate, many of the wives, mothers, sisters, daughters and grandmothers of the twenty-six men met in secret. Frustrated at the unwillingness of the authorities to provide information on the fate of their relatives, women went into the desert Armed with shovels to find the bodies of their loved ones. During the next seventeen years, women persevered in their search. This is his story.
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