the coriolis effect

Ack, just lost todays post.............tour of Santiago's barrios of sorts. We started in Maipu, a middle lower class area, then passed through La Victoria. Victoria was settled by squatters in the 70s and is now extremely well organized. We went to the house of a french priest who was shot in 1984, accidentally by police, while he was reading in his second floor study. The house isn't really a museum- its inhabited by another french priest who was in Santiago at the time, and there were some guests of his milling around- but the room is preserved. From there we passed through Santiago Central and Picked up Manuela, the fourth, and then went to the other side of the city and Parque de la Paz. It was the torture center Villa Grimaldi during the regime, and though only one of the original buildings remains, where the DINA falsified documents, there are plaques explaining what took place in each of the buildings, whose foundations remained. Drove on through Lo Barnechea, and la Reina, two of the more exclusive residential areas, to houses nestled in the foothills of the Andes. Though we didn´t hit extremes, we covered a lot of ground in the middle.