“Thank you for getting here so quickly, René,” said Cristóbal. “I have something important to tell you.”
“Does it have anything to do with the pigsty?”
René looked tired. That morning, the military reported on the national radio that the situation in the shantytown had become ‘unacceptably’ dangerous. The police had cordoned off the porqueriza, and strict controls were now in place. The carabineros wanted to evacuate some of the slums, but they were obstructed by the barricades of debris the earthquake constructed.
porquerizacarabinerosForeign journalists indignantly reported that police were shooting unarmed people. The national radio called the población a “hotbed of left-wing terror” and threatened radical measures.
poblaciónThere was no mention of a return to democracy.
“For weeks
