Word: santiagos
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Armed with homemade Molotov cocktails, guns, wooden sticks, nails and even arrows, slumdwellers near Santiago prepared for clashes with police. Some Chileans turned their homes into hospitals, bracing for severe government reprisals. Doctors and nurses stood ready to attend the injured...
...have been. Fed up with the ten-year-old regime of General Augusto Pinochet, thousands of Chileans kept their children home from school to protest their country's 30% unemployment and 30% inflation. Public transportation was scarce, and a majority of truckers stayed off the roads. After the Santiago Retailers Association joined the protest, most stores closed their doors. At nightfall, the streets of Santiago were filled with the sound of banging pots and pans as Chileans leaned out their windows, just technically in compliance with the curfew laws designed to keep them off the streets. Said Gabriel Valdes...
...street peddlers at Plaza Barrios are hungry for foreign cash and are willing to give you up to 375 colones to the dollar instead of the official rate of 250 colones; and the Pacific beaches along Costa Del Sol--with its gnarly surfing at La Libertdad--and Barra de Santiago to the South of San Salvador put Lauderdale and Nauset to shame...
...hailed as an anniversary of popular triumph, but the subdued ritual that took place last week in the eastern city of Santiago de Cuba looked more like an exercise in lonely defiance. As a chilly evening rain fell on the tiny colonial plaza of Cuba's second-largest city (pop. 360,000), a crowd of 5,000 carefully selected guests waited patiently as the country's aging revolutionary leadership filed into place on the carved wooden balconies of the venerable city hall. Soaked to the skin, the audience heard Army Chief Raúl Castro declare...
...died in the invasion, Castro declared to loud applause that "the blood shed by the heroic collaborators who fell in Grenada will never be forgotten." Nor, he said, would the Cuban revolution "tremble or vacillate" should the time come to defend itself. Harking back yet again to the Santiago triumph of 1959, Castro invoked the "heroism, patriotism and revolutionary spirit" of that day to achieve the same aim: "Victory...