 Her studies were interrupted from September 1975 until December 1978 while she was detained as a political prisoner during Argentina's most recent military dictatorship.After her release, she continued to suffer constant repression and persecution, and was forced to go into exile in 1980, first in California, and later in Mexico.During her exile, she published works in Mexico and California and wrote her first novel, "El séptimo sueño" (The Seventh Dream), a manuscript she decided not to publish.