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...Staff writer Naveen N. Srivatsa can be reached at srivatsa@fas.harvard.edu...
...Hamsa has been great,” said SEAS student David N. Woolf, who is also a research assistant for the project. “She is hardworking and self-sufficient...
Concepción, which is adjacent to the Pacific Ocean, seems to have dodged the tsunami, but Lewis says that small towns north and south were badly hit by it. He says he was told by authorities that 350 deaths of the total death toll were the result of the tsunami in these small villages. Generally, the navy would have been the first to respond, but, says Lewis, "their base on the water was destroyed by the quake and tsunami, leaving them helpless." (See "Chile's President: Why Did Tsunami Warnings Fail...
...these posts as makeshift weapons. I interviewed a man at the airport who said that some of these neighborhood watches had instituted passwords so as to identify the people who actually lived on their street." The Chilean army spent most of Wednesday locking down every block in Concepción...
Bachelet has taken to the airwaves to tell quake victims that there is no food or fuel shortage. But on Wednesday morning in Concepción, says Lewis, "there were thousands of stranded cars and trucks in the city because there is no gas." He adds, "Building up social trust is more important right now than physical rebuilding," perhaps because of the reign of terror under the 17-year military dictatorship of Augusto Pinochet. Chileans still have a wary relationship with security institutions - an instinct exacerbated by the post-quake inefficiencies of the government. "You can see it clearly...