international waters
daily dos
wed 12/3/2008
Tension between neighbors Chile and Peru remains high after a Peruvian general said that Chileans in Peru would leave the country in coffins or body bags. A video of the general making the remarks was posted to YouTube earlier this year.
wayne-y days
daily dos
mon 11/17/2008
Chilean health officials are being criticized for failing to notify 2,000 patients that they are HIV positive.
nice 2 beat u
daily dos
mon 9/22/2008
After years of repression, Chilean teenagers are exploring their sexuality at massive after-school make-out parties. Also, there’s a slideshow.
me first
daily dos
tue 6/17/2008
Peru and Chile are beefing over the origin of potatoes. Last week, Chilean agriculture minister Marigen Hornkohl proclaimed: "Few people know that 99 percent of the world's potatoes have some type of genetic link to potatoes from Chile." Peruvian Foreign Minister José Antonio García Belaúnde responded: "Obviously, the world has known for centuries that the potato is from Peru and that the Peruvian potato saved Europe from hunger." Charles Crissman of the International Potato Center: [T]he first potatoes came from what is today Peru." (via FP Passport)
summer reading
daily dos
tue 5/27/2008
A judge in Chile has ordered the arrest of 100 former soldiers and secret police over human rights abuses committed during General Augusto Pinochet's reign.
on repeat
daily dos
tue 5/13/2008
In an attempt to show that Chile has a "poor level of data protection," a hacker leaked the addresses, ID card numbers and telephone numbers of an estimated six million Chileans over the Internet.
great white pope
daily dos
wed 4/16/2008
Violence against emo kids has popped up in Chile, Peru and Colombia. Previously: México.
see, blocked
daily dos
thu 3/20/2008
Chilean teens who call themselves Pokemones are engaging in public orgies called "ponceo." Nineteen-year old Raúl Barra: "It's basically a fashion thing."
ink, inc.
daily dos
tue 12/18/2007
Bolivia, Brazil and Chile will pool $600 million to build a highway that runs from Brazil to Chile, linking the Atlantic and Pacific coasts of South America.
license to chill
daily dos
thu 11/15/2007
A magnitude 7.7 earthquake hit Chile yesterday, leaving hundreds of people injured and two dead.
