Roger Waters sends message of support to Chile

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As most of you will be painfully aware, around a week ago, Chile was struck by one of the most powerful earthquakes in history: 8.8 in Richter scale, 500 times more powerful than the one in Haití. Around 2 million people have been affected in different ways and hundreds are dead or missing. The Chileans are still shocked, however, as César Jiménez tells us, they have found comfort in the overwhelming reaction from many people around the world, including several musicians, like Roger Waters. Chilean newspapers have published this afternoon a letter he [Roger] sent to one of the DJs of Radio Futuro, a station based in Santiago. If you have a way of tell him how grateful we are for this, please do it. Here's the letter in full, first in Spanish as it originally appeared, and then an approximate translation into English:

Originally published in Brain Damage on 03-06-2010 04:39 AM in . Read the original article here.