The following article describes how poverty and exclusion within Santiago has been partially ignored due to the city’s strong economic performance and positive set of social indicators. Emphasises how the city has become segregated, underlining the political fragmentation and the great differences between the 34 municipalities that make up the Greater Santiago in terms of per capita income, quality of education, coverage of investment in buildings and the levels of income and expenditure of municipal authorities. It also describes the loss of social and physical space for public interaction and the growth of a perception of insecurity. He suggests that these problems are partly linked to a lack of democratic structures in Santiago as the city lacks a representative metropolitan government and in addition power, resources and decision-making remain nationalThe paper describing how poverty and exclusion within Santiago has been Overlooked, in part, receiving of the strong economic performance and printed aggregation of social indicators. It experiences how the city has been segregated – for instance the political fragmentation and the difference between the 34 municipalities that form Santiago in terms of their per capita income, quality of education, extent of new building investment, and municipal authority levels of income and expenditure. It also describes the loss of social and physical space for public interaction and the risking perception of insecurity. It suggests that these problems are in part linked to the lack of democratic structures within Santiago since it Lacks a democratic metropolitan government. Power, resources and decisions remain within national Ministries