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Could the Mexican War on Drugs Spread to Chile?
Here in Chile HBO is showing a new made-in-Chile production called “Profúgos” ( meaning “fugitives”). The opening episode showed a gun battle between this group of narcotraficantes and the PDI police...
View ArticleJazz along the Mapocho
by George Allen For three days last week, jazz musicians from around the world performed in a sculpture park alongside the Mapocho river for the 11th annual Providencia Jazz Festival in Santiago,...
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Virgin Mobile cellular comes to Chile
Editors update 12 April 2012: Virgin Mobile opened up its web site in Chile this week. That same day I ordered a SIM card from the web site. It the came in the mail two days later efficiently...
View ArticleAbortion in Chile
By George Allen Abortion in Chile Last week Republican Presidential candidates and their counterparts in Congress launched attacks on the Obama administration’s health care plan, arguing it would...
View ArticleRicardo’s Lagos “Southern Tiger”
by Walker Rowe Ricardo Lagos, former President of Chile, has written a book with the assistance of two writers from Foreign Affairs magazine and includes an introduction by Bill Clinton. While the...
View ArticleStudent movement isn’t going away soon
by George Allen On the same day students protested across the United States for “1 T Day“–the day US student debt will hit one trillion dollars–Chilean students officially inaugurated the new school...
View ArticleFernando Botero’s paintings of torture at Abu Ghraib prison
by George Allen Santiago’s Museo de la Memoria y los Derechos Humanos is a block long rectangular concrete and glass building outside of the sprawling Quinto Normal Park. The front entrance of the...
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Festival Guitarras de América
Festival Guitarras de América comienza este día lunes en Santiago, continuando después por las ciudades de Talca, Osorno, Puerto Montt, Puerto Varas, y Castro. En su 12° versión promete seguir...
View ArticleSantiago Municipal Elections: Pinochet’s Security Chief Falls
In the USA when an election is over the winner invariably calls the loser and offers their condolence and thanks them for running a good campaign. The losing politicians then go on the air to make...
View ArticleFilm Review: The Clown (El Payaso)
by Rick Segreda “The Clown”, from Brazil, is a mere 81 minutes in length – a full ninety if you included the exceptionally long eight minute closing credits – yet for this reviewer, this peculiar...
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Health Care in Chile: Drowning in Paperwork
by Walker Rowe photo Araucania Regional Hospital by Pablo Trincado An update to this article is here. Part of daily life here in Santiago involves running around town doing in person what you might...
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Chilean Poet Nicanor Parra turns 100
Today is Nicanor Parra´s 100th birthday. This 5-time Nobel-Prize nominated Chilean poet is not as widely-known in the English-speaking world as in the Spanish-speaking one, where his fame is...
View ArticleChile Allows First Medical Marijuana Farm
8 September 2014. Santiago, Chile. The Chilean Agriculture Service (SAG) yesterday gave the city of La Florida, part of Greater Santiago, permission to plant 416 marijuana plants for cancer and...
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Chile and the War in Syria: America’s Peace Dividend
by Walker Rowe Photo courtesy US Navy When I first came to Chile 9 years ago, I had a lot of fun joking back and worth with coworkers about the USA, its military power, and our perpetual wars. But...
View ArticleSurvey Shows Crime is up in Chile
thumbnail photo by Geraint Rowland 31 October 2014. Santiago, Chile. Paz Cuidana and GFK Admimark have released a survey of crime in Santiago. The survey sampled 7,720 households. In the Greater...
View ArticleCuasimodo Holy Week Procession
12 April 2015. Curacaví, CHILE. In the last century, the priest during Semana Santa (Holy Week) visited sick people in their homes who could not receive communion. But many times he was assaulted on...
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Expat Southerner Explains Racism
by Walker Rowe Chileans are very interested in the racial debate raging in America. They ask me if I am racist or if my country is racist. I am in a unique position to comment on the racial situation...
View ArticleHow to Find a Lawyer in Chile
I have filed lots of lawsuits in Chile and been a crime victim too, more than once, which is almost guaranteed to happen to anyone who lives here long enough. Here are some basic rules and definitions...
View ArticleProof that Chilean and Spanish People are Illogical
by Walker Rowe I have found absolute proof that the Chilean, and Spanish people, from which they sprang, are illogical. Read on. At the university, in between time spent playing tennis and smoking...
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Puertecillo
graphic source: Turismo Virtual Foreign and Chilean surfers already know about Pichilemu and the waves at Punto Lobos. But there is another beach in this area with the same constant swell, yet...
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