His experience of the overthrow of the Allende government informed his push for a campaign for a socially committed literature in Mexico with his founding, along with poet Mario Santiago and a handful of others, of a subversive literary group known as the Infrarealists. Before his narrow escape, Bolano was witness to the mass murder of Chilean leftists. Following his release, Bolaño fled to Mexico. He was quickly arrested and jailed (for eight days) during the military coup of Augusto Pinochet. In 1973, after a little seasoning among the revolutionaries of his day, and in support of the Salvador Allende government, Bolano moved back to Chile. He quickly fell in with a group of left-wing poets. The same year, at the age of sixteen, he left High School and began to write. Bolaño was intrigued by the energy and danger of these protests. His family moved between several towns in Chile, before they moved to Mexico City in 1968, just as student protests and police retaliations were paralyzing the capital. Roberto Bolano, whose father was a truck driver and whose mother was a teacher, led a nomadic existence from an early age.
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