Word: santiagos
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Chile," says a U.S. State Department 'official grudgingly, "is a casebook study in sound economic management." Chile? The country where two months ago the Catholic Church demanded an investigation into the identities of more than 300 bodies found crammed into unmarked coffins in a Santiago cemetery? Chile? The international pariah that refuses to extradite to the U.S. the former head of the Chilean secret service and two other army officers indicted for murder by a federal grand jury? Yes, Chile, where Military Dictator Augusto Pinochet is simultaneously tightening his grip on the government and freeing up the economy...
Today a six-block stretch of Calle Ahumada in Santiago is one of South America's busiest commercial malls. Brightly painted signs pull shoppers into new boutiques stuffed with madras dresses from India, art supplies from Germany and motorcycles from Japan. The adjoining streets are jammed with honking hordes of shiny cars and trucks of every modern make. Workers are digging trenches for an extension of the Santiago subway. However, La Moneda palace, where Pinochet's predecessor, Marxist Salvador Allende, was killed in 1973, remains begrimed and run down...