1986 Christine McVie interview

[Villavic]

Originally Posted by dougl

There were curfews, and he and Stevie were out when they shouldn't have been. Got surrounded by cops with machine guns, and Stevie put their car window down and the cops put an Uzi in her face. Hernan had to talk to the cops to get away. Afterwards Stevie called her manager, and the manager called a US Senator, and then someone called the US embassy, and embassy called her and said you have to get out. And so he and she flew to Brazil.

Though is not impossible, I find it hard to believe that this episode is true. If they were at a hotel, they would not have been allowed to leave the building. I read another interview to Hernan where he told they visited his mother (I understand she was the inspiration of the Bella Donna song). If they were staying there, she would have warned them not to go out during the curfew anyway. I've also been under nighttime curfews. You immediately realize something strange is going on. You don't see anyone on the streets except soldiers and military vehicles.

I guess you guys think they might have been high to get out. It's possible. Only a madman goes out on the street during curfew. Still, it's a somewhat far-fetched story.