However, the success of "Historia secreta de Chile" was not free from controversy – some historians criticized the quality of its documentation, while others such as the 2016 National History Award winner and the 2006 winner Gabriel Salazar supported the publication. In the following two years Baradit released the remaining volumes of the trilogy, with covers as provocative as the first (which had portrayed Arturo Prat as a spiritualist figure, endowed with a third eye). The second showed Bernardo O'Higgins with dark glasses, emulating the famous photograph of Augusto Pinochet after the military coup, alluding to the fact that the independence leader was the country's first dictator. The third figure featured Gabriela Mistral with a tattoo reading "Doris", plus a piercing in her nose.