6A HASS Timeline Term 3

  • Jose Alonso and Gaston Arias were born

  • Fidel Castro took power and Jose remembers it as a ‘heady period’ – extremes of social reform and violence.

  • Gaston participated in the 1960s campaigns to elect the socialist Salvador Allende.

  • Gaston participated in the 1960s campaigns to elect the socialist Salvador Allende.

  • Jose had secured a teaching position in Melbourne, so he migrated to Australia with his wife and child.

    They had planned to only stay 3 years. However, they chose to stay for life.
  • Period: to

    it was an exciting time of political change, and economic reformation.

  • After the overthrow of the Allende government in 1973, Gaston was detained for three years, principally at the remote Dawson Island detention centre off the southern coast of Chile.

  • Gaston was released from prison

  • Unable to find his place in Pinochet’s Chile, Gaston finally migrated to Melbourne in 1987 through the humanitarian program.

  • Jose Alonso is 76 since the 23 of August and Gaston is turning 76

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