A politician changed his face to return homeSourced
To return to Chile in secret,
he changed his appearance.
Chilean politician Luis Corvalán was detained after the 1973 coup and freed in a 1976 prisoner exchange. In the 1980s he underwent surgery in the Soviet Union to alter his appearance, then secretly returned to Chile in 1988 to help organize opposition to Pinochet's government.
Going home required
a different face.
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