The World : Barred by Chile, Critic Says

Chilean writer Ariel Dorfman, an outspoken critic of the regime of Gen. Augusto Pinochet, said he has been refused entry to his country. Dorfman, 45, a Chilean-born U.S. resident and a professor of Latin American literature at Duke University in North Carolina, said he flew to Chile on Sunday but was stopped at the airport in Santiago on orders from the Interior Ministry. In Buenos Aires later, the writer charged he had been “re-exiled” for criticizing the regime. The government cited an Interior Ministry order in October, 1986, barring Dorfman from Chile. It said the authorities would reconsider if he applied for permission to return.