Moreover, given the disastrous consequences tor ine bourgeoisie or ine classic fascist experiment, seCils unlikely repeated. use however the definition of fascism Combiele crushing of the movement dy annica lorce, then Chile is fascism.
Morna Macleod of the Chile Human Rights Committee went to enlie in 1980, and has produced a useful account OI social and economic consequences of eight years of Pinochet's rule.* Luxury Morna Macleod quickly discovered in her who had benefitted from the coup. She reports: '(Santiago's) bustling modern centre could European city Lilal U Ia with hundreds o1 suarl shops displaying every DOSSDie HOUC l CUlVC' nience; electrical applianr TVs to sophisticated ranging food processors, electrical toothbrushes to the latest German, and American Jabalcsc tape recorders and hi-fi systems; clothes from the most fashionable Parisian designers; shoes imported from Italy, cheese, patés delicacies from chocolates and whisky from Britain. New shopping arcades are crammed with every kind imported luxury far beyond the reach of most Chileans, for whom even basic items are too expenyve.r Slums But the picture for the working people different:
DUUI yaiy Once outside the city centre the disparity, between the few rich and the majority who poor come strikingly visible ... aic the rambling expanses of the poblaciones the poor quarters, and the shanty Here there is lown siullls.
an immediate feeling of desolation, amanuellcill the slum ana isolation