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Desert Journal: Reporting from Arizona

by Walker Rowe While people shiver on the east coast, in the waning days of winter here in Arizona it is warm and sunny. The humidity is 15% or less often dropping down to an [...]

Chavez is Dead but Populism Remains

Chavez is dead and predictably the people writing comments in The Wall Street Journal and the expatriate Venezuelans are rejoicing. But for those who live in South America the situation on the ground is more complex. For many [...]

Essay: Gun Violence in the USA

by George Allen Americans are slow to comprehend disturbing trends. After Friday’s awful events in Newtown, CT, gun advocates are once again reminding us that it’s our mental health system that has failed us, not our [...]

Dangerous Beggars on the Streets of San Francisco

by Walker Rowe Yesterday I returned to Chile having spent two weeks in San Francisco. Turn on the TV in Santiago and it is odd for an American to once again see legions of school children [...]

Carmen Miranda: Bananas, Benzos and Brazil

by Imogen Reed Few people inspired as much happiness and joy in audiences around the world than Carmen Miranda. She was, at the height of her career, the highest paid Latin American star of the time. [...]

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 [...]

Students Protest in Plaza Italia

Thousands of protesters flooded Plaza Italia in downtown Santiago yesterday at 11:00 AM to protest the educational system. Protesters, the majority of them high school students from Santiago, planned to march west along Alameda avenue, the [...]

The Marijuana Policy Project on Political Events in Latin America

By Morgan Fox The Mexican election will certainly be an interesting one in terms of the drug war. While Calderon’s initial cry of all out war against the cartels was extremely popular when it began [...]

On Affairs of Literature

By Erik Berg There’ve been a few times I’ve been drained enough at night, when there’s nothing left in the tank to write, and I think of literature as is, the way I think of nature, [...]

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, [...]

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