I’m glad the government is stepping in to end looting.  This will help end looters that are just stealing because they can or are taking big ticket items, but what are they doing to solve the problem, often behind looting, of people starving.  This video from Newsy.com, http://bit.ly/c6Pqj6, gives the perspective from a women struggling to feed her children.  How are they providing necessary resources for their peoples’ survival?

I live in Santiago in a house that has suffered the 3rd major earthquake so far without any problem. It was built in the mid to late 60s. Only a few ceramic objects were broken. I also lived through the 1960 and 1971 earthquakes, but I missed the 1985 one during Pinochet’s dictatorship because I was living in exile that lasted 31 years , 8 months and 16 days. I had returned almost 2 ‘n 1/2 years. I never experienced a stronger and longer quake! I could not even run out, I could not stand, It was very noisy in itself, everything was falling and braking, it was so terrifying. It did last less than 2 min according to official sources, but I thought they were 5 to 7 min, it was a never ending event. when everyting was quiet again I walked to the living-room, I opened the curtains and it was the eeriest thing, I have no words to describe the beauty of the scene and the horror of what I knew it was a major calamity that it turned out to be a cataclysm, there was a full shining moon on an entire blacked out city, I have never seen my garden so gorgeous, the flowers all open under the bluish moon light. I stood entranced I do not know how long or how little… Then I sort of recovered and went to pick up an old battery radio to connect to the world again. I am so happy to be alived! I feel guilty somehow because so many chileans are living such a terrible nightmare, I am trying to donate to the chilean red cross, but still I cannot donate through a debit credit card.
For me is very terrible that I left a country under a dictatorship and in state of siege, and I return under a soon to be goverment of the same people who worked for and supported the dictatorship and the military coup, and a partial state of siege!
Poor Chile, it is a damnation.