Tapestries of Resistance: Patchwork Stories of Chilean Lives

During the years of the Pinochet regime, women documented repression one stitch at a time

By Christoper Shea

Wellesley, Mass. -- Marjorie Agosin vividly remembers the first time she saw one of the hand-sewn tapestries that came to symbolize resistance to Chile's Pinochet dictatorship.

She was a graduate...

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