Pinochet’s Chile: Order and Chaos

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…