Chile
Protesting Patagonians tired of feeling cut off from the world
‘It's like we're back to the Pinochet era’
Easter Islanders' battle for their ancestral land ends in bloodshed
Indigenous Chileans go on hunger strike against "antiterrorist law"
Fourteen indigenous Chilean detainees, from a people known as the Mapuche, have been on a hunger strike in the south of the country since July 12 to protest an "Antiterrorist law" which dates back to the era when former President Augusto Pinochet ran the country. Read more...
Welcome to Chile’s UFO trail
Chile's first ever "UFO trail" was established in San Clemente in 2008. Like in the rest of the Americas, UFO spotting is a serious hobby in Chile. But unlike other extraterrestrial-devoted tourism, this scheme is funded by the country's national tourism board. Read more...
"The longest four minutes of my life"
Early Saturday morning, before dawn broke, a massive earthquake of magnitude 8.8 struck off the Chilean coast. Carlos, one of our Observers from Chile, was at his girlfriend's family home in Talca, Maule, one of the regions hardest hit by the quake. He brings us this account. Read more...
The man who’s buying up South America
In 1991, an American billionaire, Douglas Tompkins, bought 170 square kilometres of land in Chilean Patagonia. Over the next decade, he bought another 3,000 square kilometres. Counting five other areas in Chile and three more in Argentina, Tompkins owns an estimated 8,000 square kilometres in both countries, making him one of the most important private land owners in the world. His goal? To preserve the land. Read more...
A navy for a landlocked country
With approximately 6,000 men and 70 vessels, the Bolivian navy keeps control of the Andean country's waterways. The only catch? Bolivia is landlocked. Read more...
