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Film Review: The Clown (El Payaso)

Film 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 [...]

Santiago Municipal Elections: Pinochet’s Security Chief Falls

Santiago 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 [...]

Festival Guitarras de América

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 relevando al más popular de los instrumentos musicales: [...]

Fernando Botero’s paintings of torture at Abu Ghraib prison

Fernando 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 museum is [...]

Student movement isn’t going away soon

Student 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 year with mass [...]

Ricardo’s Lagos “Southern Tiger”

Ricardo’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 title of the [...]

Abortion in Chile

Abortion 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 fund abortion. The plan requires all hospitals, [...]

Virgin Mobile cellular comes to Chile

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 [...]

Jazz along the Mapocho

Jazz 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, Chile. In the past, [...]

Could the Mexican War on Drugs Spread to Chile?

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 in the port of Valparaiso. [...]