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...SANTIAGO. In one half of the city, the illusion of freedom: shops, ads and "free speech"--except for the midnight threats, tortures, beatings and disappearances which keep life on the edge. In the other more than half of the city, paper-board shacks with dirt floors, blinding smog, and growing organization and rage...
Jorge is a law-abiding citizen of Santiago, an academic. He drives a Fiat, goes to the movies, shops at the overflowing markets, and lives in a nice part of town very near General Pinochet. At 2 or 3 a.m. most nights, he receives phone calls. The anonymous, "unofficial" callers say, "Your children are dead meat. We will cut off their arms and legs." And so on. About twice a year, Jorge attends the funeral of a friend who has disappeared in the middle of the night. Also unofficial...
...WELL in sunny Santiago--the terror is there; it is just waged after curfew. Subtler, more sophisticated, but just as deadly. The other thing that is not immediately apparent to the outsider is that this lovely city is less than half of Santiago, and the other half you will never...
Most citizens of the Santiago I visited had never been to the other part of the city, the barrios. The government tells them, and it is probably true, that it is dangerous for them to cross the line from the upper to the lower part of town. It is dangerous because the people of the barrios are desperate...
...social stratification in Santiago is reminiscent of apartheid in South Africa. The upper city of neat shops and bright ads is predominantly populated with people of European descent, the lower city with a more indigenous population. The boundaries are not enforced by any legal code, but their effect is just as pronounced...