We stole September 11th. Even in Chile, where universities shut down, people stay indoors all day long, powerlines are cut, tear gas is thrown, protests abound, even here where September 11th is marked as the day of the coup, the day Pinochet took power, even here, our September 11th is still the front page news.
My host brother--who calls today a celebration rather than a memorial, who wore a huge Chilean flag on his back to classes to show that he does not support the "comunistas" that were in power during Allende, who is planning a barbecue tonight to toast to Pinochet--told me last night that the only issue he has with Pinochet is that they didn't kill everyone that they should have.
Those deaths, he said, were necessary.
What death is ever necessary?
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I've conquered DC, Philadelphia and Guatemala City and now I'm off to call Santiago de Chile home. With glaciers and deserts, sandboarding and sunbathing, castellano and cazuela, I have endless Chiles to discover. Más que nada, será una aventura, po. Vamos a ver...
1 comment:
Chilling. It must be fascinating to have dialogues with your Chilean hosts when your own political stance is so different. But chilling nevertheless.
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