Word: santiagos
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...shaggy-tressed youths rushed to be sheared and shed of physical evidence that they might be leftist sympathizers. Reports that pantsuits for women were also banned turned out to be false. THEY CAN STILL WEAR PANTS read one of the few light headlines of the week in one Santiago newspaper...
...junta also banned the use of the term compañero, or comrade, which had been the ritual greeting of Allende's supporters. Flying squads of painters, meanwhile, ranged across Santiago to cleanse political slogans and provocative graffiti off the city's walls. The Socialist and Communist parties were outlawed...
...base for a possible counter-coup by the left. Judging by military announcements, the task was proving successful-and at surprisingly low cost in human lives. The junta insisted that only 95 people had been killed in the two days of fighting before the army took control of Santiago. Other sources, however, estimated deaths...
Nearly twice that many people had been arrested. By official estimate, 8,000 people were being held-far too many to be contained in Santiago's jails. The junta therefore took over the capital's 100,000-seat National Stadium and converted it into a temporary bastille for 7,000 prisoners. Other detention centers were set up at Concepción on the coast and in the isolated Juan Fernández Islands. Important political prisoners were held in Santiago's military academy. Among them were several members of Allende's Cabinet, including Foreign Minister Clodomiro...
...these things. But when I think of Salvador Allende cradling his machine-gun in the presidential palace which shells whine in and bombs explode, when I picture this calm and gentle doctor peering at the soldiers destroying socialism in Chile while children cry for milk in Santiago slums, these things become easier to contemplate...