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Costantini was politically active from his youth. In his student days he confronted the
Fascists of the Alianza Libertadora Nacionalista and was a member of the Communist Party until serious differences of opinion with the bureaucratic and pro-Soviet leadership caused him to leave it. He greatly
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In 1976, Costantini was forced into exile in Mexico where he continued writing. He suffered in an exile that obliged him "to glance through the lists for his loved ones, as if the city had been hit with a typhoon." He conducted narrative workshops regularly, made programs for radio and for
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