the coriolis effect

I survived the 8 and a half hour bus ride, though I made the bus with 3 minutes to spare (just when I need a hurtling down the alameda bus, I get two- got off at one point to try the closed metro- trolling for passengers buses and traffic at 10:30 pm). The man next to me, an engineer said, there are good things about the Allende and Pinochet governments, and bad things. Allendes government was malo, malo: there weren supplies, like milk, even if you earned enough money to pay for them. But Pinochets government was terrible with human rights. On the other side, under Allendes government tculture flourished more than under any other president he knew, arts, music, literature. And under Pinochets government the economy improved. But they had no excuse for what they did to innocent people. Pinochet was a coward, he added, for not accepting responsibility. The military is a vertical chain of command, and now all those in prison were on the lower levels. Its a difficult thing.
Speaking of Pinochet, or rather conservatives, I have an internship! Its with the Jaime Guzman Foundation, and though the harvard contact there seemed sort of anxious when he proposed the project they thought up to me, its the sort of glue and scissors work I love- cutting out articles about the UDI from old newspapers and pasting and binding them in order:-)