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November 2023

Chile Underground

To understand the history of the Santiago metro system, Andra Chastain, assistant professor of history, traveled to France as well as to Chile. The French government, which helped plan the system and provided the loans, was promoting itself as a friend to the developing world in the 1960s, especially if you wanted to build a metro system. Over the years, the project—amazingly—survived multiple Chilean regime changes, with each subsequent regime putting its stamp on the project. Chastain tells the story in her soon-to-be-published book, Chile Underground: The Santiago Metro and the Struggle for a Rational City.

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