Obama joins APEC leaders for dress-up dinner Nov 15, 2009
Chilean President Michelle Bachelet chatted animatedly on her mobile as she was pedalled past the crowd by rickshaw -- which in British colonial times was an important form of transport in Singapore. The dinner setting offers some of the most spectacular views in this trading port, a multicultural city-state that has grown into one of the richest nations in Asia. (Yahoo! Asia News)
Listen to past City Arts & Lectures programs Nov 13, 2009
The other day, Dr. Charles B. Faulhaber, director of the Bancroft Library at UC Berkeley, had an urge to hear the sonorous Chilean accent of the author Isabel Allende ... Listen to past City Arts res programs Articles The other day, Dr. Charles B. Faulhaber, director of the Bancroft Library at UC Berkeley, had an urge to hear the sonorous Chilean accent of the author Isabel Allende. (San Francisco Chronicle)
Chilean Wine and U.S. Trade Policy Nov 6, 2009
Wine Clubs, Exports, and Chilean-U.S. Free Trade. From 1995 to 2005 Chilean vineyard grew from twelve to 70 ... Chilean wine and U.S trade policy is critical for wine exports, inclusion in wine clubs, and continued growth. (Suite101.com)
Argentine folk legend Mercedes Sosa dead at 74 Oct 5, 2009
One of Sosa's best known songs is "Gracias a la Vida," or "Thanks to Life," from a 1972 album honoring the late Chilean poet and singer Violeta Parra. The recording was further popularized in a slightly different version, with Sosa singing in a deeper voice, in the 1980s. (Yahoo! Asia News)
Chile Will Curb Easter Island Immigration as Utility Services Break Down Sep 15, 2009
There are 5,000 people living on the island and that causes a series of other ills, said Rafael Barra, a Chilean jeweler who has lived on Easter Island for 40 years. Water is expensive, electricity is expensive and we have a dump that is proving insoluble because theres more rubbish all the time. (Bloomberg -- Latin America)
Another View: Tea party in aisle 5 at Whole Foods Sep 5, 2009
Meanwhile, conservatives and libertarians of various stripes are blogospherically smacking their lips so loudly youd think they just had a helping of Chilean sea bass en papillote from the Whole Foods deli counter. If the brainwashed, hemp-smoking zombies of the left stop shopping there, we conservatives can fill that market hole, wrote an anonymous poster on the blog Conservatives for Change. (Hanford Sentinal, CA)
Rivalry Between Peru And Bolivia Hits Dance Floor Aug 22, 2009
The Peruvian National Culture Institute was more diplomatic: Director Cecilia Bakula says the dance is not only Bolivian and Peruvian, but Chilean as well. The dance "represents the battle between the archangel and the seven deadly sins represented by the devil," Bakula said. (CBS News -- World)
Peru, Bolivia spar over Devils Dance Aug 22, 2009
The Peruvian National Culture Institute was more diplomatic: Director Cecilia Bakula says the dance i 00003EDB s not only Bolivian and Peruvian, but Chilean as well. The dance "represents the battle between the archangel and the seven deadly sins represented by the devil," Bakula said. (MSNBC -- International)
Easter Island flights resume after protest: officials Aug 18, 2009
"The airport is fully operational," a senior interior ministry official, Patricio Rosende, told reporters in the Chilean capital Santiago ... The protesters were demanding restrictions on the 50,000 visitors who go to the island each year to see its famed stone statues, and a special council to stop mainland Chileans and foreigners settling there ... Luz Zasso Paoa, the mayor of Easter Island's sole town of Hanga Roa, told Chilean radio that restricting immigration could be based on the same... (Yahoo! Asia News)
Nonsmoking Catches on in Czech Republic Aug 1, 2009
"It was a problem for me to come every day to smell this, the smoke," said Pavlov, a native Chilean who opened the restaurant in 1996. "It was not good for people who work for me to do something bad for their health.". (BusinessWeek)
Emergency pill for Chilean girls Jul 29, 2009
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Wait, That Says Google?! Jul 16, 2009
Google posted this logo on its search page on July 12 in selected countries in honor of Pablo Neruda, Chilean poet and politician. This illustration seems to allude to his anthology. (Slate)
Shortchanging Justice Carries High Price Jul 7, 2009
A Chilean gendarme chains a main gate within Santiago One jail during a strike in Santiago July 6, 2009. Gendarmes and civilian prison workers in Chile have started a strike to. (AlertNet)
You should be dancin', yeah Jul 3, 2009
n, the film's 32-year-old Chilean director, is preying on false expectations ... Its protagonist, to stretch that term to its absolute limit, is a disheveled 52-year-old man named Ral (played by veteran Chilean stage actor Alfredo Castro, who also co-wrote the script), whose life under the Pinochet dictatorship of the 1970s is dominated by his obsession with "Saturday Night Fever." Ral goes to see the movie alone in empty theaters, mumbling along with the English dialogue he only... (Salon)
Roundup: Movies not to miss Jun 20, 2009
Humanity can live without bluefin tuna or Chilean sea bass (and, one way or the other, it's going to have to). If we're willing to enforce international agreements on fishing quotas and no-fish marine preserves, crack down on thieves and poachers, and eat fewer large game fish and more sardines and anchovies -- which have thrived in the absence of larger predators -- then there's still time to ensure that our grandchildren have fish to eat. (Salon)
Big Changes In Small Markets May 25, 2009
1998: Bresnan sells Chilean interest back to its partners. 1999: Bresnan merges its existing U.S. operations with select systems from TCI, forming a domestic MSO serving nearly 1 million homes and 645,000 subscribers in Michigan, Wisconsin, Minnesota and Nebraska. (Multichannel News)
Chile expands Chinese education in high schools May 7, 2009
SANTIAGO, May 6 (Xinhua) -- The Chilean Education Ministry announced on Wednesday the expansion of Chinese education in the country's high schools. According to the ministry's plan, the number of high schools that run Chinese courses as a foreign language will rise from five to 10 in 2009 and the number of high school students learning Chinese will rise to 1,700 from 850 in 2008. (Xinhuanet, China)
Confucius Institute founded in Catolica University of Chile May 6, 2009
Chinese ambassador to Chile Liu Yuqin said that "I am convinced that with the support of Nanjing University, Catolica University will be a great platform to show Chinese culture to the Chilean people, mainly to the youth, to deepen mutual comprehension and knowledge between the Chinese and Chilean people.". Editor: Zhang Xiang. (Xinhuanet, China)
Nut forest is part of homestead culture Apr 5, 2009
Alon Zeev Ish Shalom shows a Chilean nut tree seedling planted at the Mountain Homestead Intentional Community eco-forestry site in Coquille on Monday ... Alon Zeev Ish Shalom shows a Chilean nut tree seedling planted at the Mountain Homestead Intentional Community eco-forestry site in Coquille on Monday ... It s a Chilean nut tree, he said of the seedling on the hillside in the Walker Creek Valley. (Coos Bay-North Bend The World, OR)
Anna Nicole Smith, Howard K. Stern, George Clooney Mar 14, 2009
The National Book Critics Circle this week awarded its fiction prize to "2666" by Roberto Bolao, the Chilean author who died in 2003, and its award for general nonfiction to "The Forever War" by Dexter Filkins, a New York Times reporter who covered the conflicts in Iraq and Afghanistan. The autobiography prize went to Ariel Sabar's "My Father's Paradise," which traces the author's Jewish roots in Kurdish Iraq. (International Herald Tribune -- Arts)
Audrey Niffenegger, Diddy, David Mamet Mar 12, 2009
Manuscripts discovered in Spain may be unpublished novels left behind by the Chilean author Roberto Bolao, The Guardian of London reported, citing the Spanish newspaper La Vanguardia. The works discovered when papers of Bolao, who died in 2003, were being sorted include novels titled "Diorama" and "The Troubles of the Real Police Officer." Also found were documents that may make up an additional volume of "2666," an epic 898-page novel by Bolao that was released in the United States last... (International Herald Tribune -- Arts)
Correa curbs imports as crisis looms Mar 3, 2009
In what may be the world's most protectionist response to the global economic crisis, Ecuador's leftist government has imposed import restrictions on everything from Peruvian shampoo to Chilean grapes and U.S.-made running shoes. says he had to take drastic action to prevent the collapse of an oil-dependent economy shocked by plunging petroleum prices, flagging remittances from workers abroad and the drying-up of foreign investment. (Insight on the News)
Sweden-Israel Davis Cup to go ahead without fans Feb 25, 2009
In 1975, two years after a military coup led by Augusto Pinochet against the elected Chilean government of Salvador Allende, Sweden played Chile in Bastad and no spectators were allowed. . (MSNBC -- Sports)
Staging the magic of Isabel Allende Feb 18, 2009
Allende, a Chilean who went into exile after President Salvador Allende, her cousin, was overthrown by General Augusto Pinochet, is sympathetic to the choices Svich made. "I think magical realism is really difficult to put onstage without it looking like an illusionist's show, which can be very tacky," she said in a telephone interview from her home in Northern California. (International Herald Tribune -- Arts)
Romantic Movies Improve Italian Lan... Feb 11, 2009
A shy village postman who makes friends with the famed Chilean poet Pablo Neruda, living in exile, who helps him find his own voice in his pursuit the woman with whom he has fallen in love. Written by Anna Pavignano, Michael Radford, Furio Scarpelli, Giacomo Scarpelli, and Massimo Troisi; based on the novel Ardiente Paciencia by Antonio Skarm;ta; with poems by Pablo Naruda; directed by Michael Radford. (Suite101.com)
