Historical Context

I was interested in the historical context from the play after reading the first sentence, "The time is the present and the place, a country that is probably Chile but could be any country that has given itself a democratic government just after a long period of dictatorship." I did a report on Augusto Pinochet for my spanish class a couple years ago. His human rights violations are both horrific and fascinating. I included an article about the dictatorship of Pinochet, which includes some reports of the deaths and torture that took part during his reign that the character Paulina most likely suffered through.

http://www.enotes.com/genocide-encyclopedia/pinochet-augusto