Patricia Verdugo won the Chilean National Journalism Prize on 1997. In 1993 she won the Maria Moors Cabot Prize, the greatest reward gaved in the United States to a foreign journalist.
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Author of seven books, most of them investigations in the defense of the human rights: Una herida abierta (An open wound) (1979), Andre de La Victoria (Andre from La Victoria) (1984), Los zarpazos del puma (The clashes of the puma) (1985), Quemados vivos (Burned alive) (1986), Operacion siglo XX (XX Century operation) (1990), Tiempos de dias claros (Times of clearly days) (1990) and Conversaciones con Nemesio Antunez (Conversations with Nemesio Antunez) (1995).
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She keeps the best-seller record in Chile with her book, The clashes of the puma.
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This work, Secret Interference, is a necesary testimony of the civil life of our country, that Editorial Sudamericana Chilena incorpores to their catalogue.