Abstract
Juan Radrigán wrote El loco y la triste in 1985 in Chile during the twelfth year of General Pinochet's seventeen-year dictatorship. Under Pinochet, the poor were considered dissidents because they benefited from and relied on the economic restructuring attempted by Socialist President Salvador Allende, whom he deposed. While the military regime pursued free-market economic policies that shrank wages and eliminated many jobs to make the poor less visible, it also began eradication programs to raze shantytowns, pushing the already-marginalized even farther from the center of the capital city. Such is the universe in which the prostitute and the drunk at the center of Radrigán's play find themselves.
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