Pinochet’s Chile: Order and Chaos
Tina Rosenberg
1987
At 1:35 on the morning of May 9, 1986, a bomb exploded in Amiti Pilowsky’s bedroom window in Santiago, Chile. No one was hurt, although the bomb destroyed a car in the driveway, severely damaged a second car and shattered every window in Pilowsky’s house and several next door. The bomb’s more curious effect, however, was not the explosion it caused…
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