Travel
First Hike: Lost in the Andes
Coming to terms with getting lost and the unexpected outcomes of discovery By Nico Parkinson I can still remember leaving the trail. It was a worn, dusty path that we had followed from a small […]
Chile
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High and Dry in Chile’s Atacama Desert
Text and Photos by William Graham Clive, a Canadian astronomer who now lives in the Atacama Desert in Chile, led me through the dark on a clear, cold night to a series of telescopes pointed […]
China
Chile and the End of the Liberal World Order
The old, liberal world order is over, says Foreign Affairs, the organ of the foreign-policy establishment. In the bygone days, Liberalism supposedly guided the ways of the world with its emphasis on cooperation, facilitated within […]
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Filipina nanny killed by speeding car remembered as a ‘very lovely woman’
By Mildred Caranto SANTIAGO, CHILE – It was a typical weekend off work for Norma Alforte. She met friends and went to a Christian Church in downtown Santiago. She spent the day with friends in […]
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Chile sanctioned with fine and stadium ban for eighth bout of homophobic chanting
Fifa hit Chile with a two-match stadium ban and a 30,000 Swiss franc (US$29,000) fine on Monday for a fresh bout of homophobic chanting by their fans. The Copa America champions are barred from playing […]
Argentina
Macri and Bachelet agree on a Mercosur-Pacific Alliance meeting in first half of 2017
Argentina and Chile agreed to organize a major Mercosur, Pacific Alliance trade blocks’ meeting during the first half of 2017. Last Friday Chilean president Michelle Bachelet and her cabinet were in Buenos Aires with peers […]
Argentina
Macri’s Argentina back from world isolation except from Venezuela and Iran
Argentine President Mauricio Macri said Friday that “we have come from years of isolation and bad relations with almost all countries except Venezuela and Iran.” He added that “this year we have experienced a Copernican […]
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First loan for an Andes tunnel to connect Argentina with Chile as part of Mercosur road net
The Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) has approved a US$40 million loan that will allow for bidding to begin for the Agua Negra tunnel, which will connect San Juan province in Argentina with that of Coquimbo […]
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Pinochet shadow looms over Chile 10 years after death
SANTIAGO: Chile has marked the 10th anniversary of the death of late dictator Augusto Pinochet, who has gradually become a national pariah even as his legacy continues to dominate the country. Pinochet, who ruled Chile […]
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Global de-mining conference concerned over growing use of improvised landmines
The Anti-Personnel Mine Ban Convention’s Fifteenth Meeting of the States Parties (15MSP) concluded a week of work in Santiago, Chile, recording success in stockpile destruction with Poland announcing it had destroyed one million stockpiled landmines […]