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I made a movie of the days events after the Death of Pinochet. These are the demonstrations in downtown Santiago de Chile in the hours following 14:15 on the the 10th of December 2006.

Technorati : Allende, Chile, Dead, Movie, Pinochet, Santiago

I got back from a late lunch to find the Santiago Times newsroom a blur of activity. While Charlie and I were peacefully enjoying the delicacies of Peruvian cuisine, Chile’s former dictator General Augusto Pinochet passed away at the age of 91.

Local Chilean television already began twin simulcasts of the days unfolding events, one half of the screen tuned to the Plaza Italia, where a the initial group of hundreds of Pinochet detractors began to gather, the other half of the screen focused on the swelling of supporters around the military hospital where the former general spent his final days.