LATIMES/ While life returns to normal in the capital Santiago, basic services were lacking in the poorer areas outside the city. That's one reason for looting that has shocked Chileans. In suburban working-class Quilicura, thirty minutes from the center, residents suffered for three days without water and electricity while supermarkets and homes were looted, despite reporting the minimal damage. Newspaper columnist Sonia Diaz explains that "the country has grown economically, but socially, in terms of education, culturally, it's just a skin. You can see it in the social explosions in the south, in the way wealthier people in this region went in and bought up everything in the supermarkets."
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