SANTIAGO — Once again, Chilean students have taken to the streets to protest the…
My Life With María Gabriela – Living with Cystic Fibrosis
Note: This is part of an ongoing series by Eric “Leo” Eastman about his experiences in Chile with living with a daughter diagnosed with Cystic Fibrosis. Since I have not written a blog for quite some time I want to re-cap, as well as update, the experience with this challenge my partner and I are sharing with [...]
A Quick Trip to Bolivia
On a Friday afternoon, we started our trip with a flight to La Paz, the administrative capital of Bolivia. We heard a lot about this city that is built on steep hills far above sea level, making it the world’s highest “de facto” capital city. We also wanted to visit Lake Titicaca. The lake is [...]
A last-minute trip to Chile’s Termas del Plomo
Last weekend, I had the great luck of booking a last-minute trip with Jorge Excursiones to Termas del Plomo in the Yeso Valley region of Chile. By last minute, I mean I signed up online on Friday afternoon for an 8 a.m., Saturday departure from Santiago’s Plaza Italia. “Termas del Plomo” literally means, “hot baths [...]
Bicycle diaries: Parks and politics with La Bicicleta Verde
Perhaps you have seen or heard of a group of green bicycles peddling around Santiago, Chile. They are a friendly gang, causing no harm, excluding the occasional honk by a taxi driver. According to TripAdvisor.com, taking a ride with the eco-friendly company La Bicicleta Verde is one of the top tourist activities in Santiago, Chile. La [...]
Disability is a social relationship
The following is my translation of an interview by Luis Vera, of the Colectivo Palos de Ciego (White Cane Collaborative), La discapacidad es una relación social published in Chile’s online El Ciudadano. To view the original in Spanish go to http://tinyurl.com/7sjdxlo. Once again a weekend of solidarity television mediated by large companies has just concluded. Beyond [...]
Classism in Chile: Money talks
Some time ago, talking with a friend -Chilean like me- about a gringo we met, he told me, “he appears to be lower class.” Well, I guess that “high class” in America is a status reserved to celebrities, oil moguls and people like that. All others are working class and if you’re a plumber, electrician [...]
Crashing Chilean academia: Discussing human rights and democracy
On Dec. 12, the Universidad Miguel de Cervantes hosted the launch of “Normativa internacional de los Derechos Humanos y el sistema democrático: el caso chileno,” or “International standards of human rights and democratic system: the Chilean case” written by Edgardo Riveros Marín. I Love Chile was invited by the Rector of Universidad Miguel de Cervantes, Gutenberg Martínez, Winfried Jung, a representative [...]
A holiday hunting guide for expats in Chile
This post is featured in part of an ongoing blog. For the last entry from this blogger, see Fur flies at Kennel Club dog expo in Maipú. The food hunter’s guide to finding fixin’s for a USA Thanksgiving dinner in Santiago, Chile We are lucky as expats to have our entire family here in Chile [...]
Fur flies at Chile Kennel Club dog expo in Maipú
This post is featured in part of an ongoing blog. For the last entry from this blogger, see “Holiday and everyday hints for tipping in Chile.” We spent the entire afternoon (arriving home at 9 p.m.) at the Kennel Club de Chiledog show held at the Gymnasium Santiago Bueras in Maipú on Nov. 13. We [...]
Jazz night brings in generous support for Colegio Hellen Keller
Colegio Hellen Keller welcomed a full house to Las Condes’ Coquinaria on Sunday night, Nov. 6 in support of their annual Jazz Night and fundraising event . The school for visually impaired children, with generous community and sponsor support, brought in US$8,280 for its project “Take the chill out of Chile” – a push to [...]