“Thanks for everything kids!” blared the headline of La Cuarta, Chile’s decidedly populist news daily yesterday. The national team may have been thrust out of the World Cup after a 3-0 thrashing from five-time champions Brazil, but they will be welcomed home as heroes. Known as “La Roja” (The Reds) Chile’s team was the [...]
Billionaires worldwide are buying up entire ecosystems and turning them into conservation areas and national parks. Their goal? To slow global warming and environmental catastrophe. Jonathan Franklin studies the growing herd of Eco Barons. Sebastian Piñera, Chilean President, has a resume that includes introducing credit cards to Chile, past ownership of LanChile, South America’s most [...]
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Chile’s response to the February 27th earthquake was unique – unlike the January 2010 earthquake in Haiti or the 2004 tsunami in Sumatra, this was the first major quake to hit a fully wired nation. Chile has one of the world’s highest percentage of Facebook users per capita and Chileans love social media like twitter [...]
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