Wall grafitti from Valparaiso showing one of the acensors (elevators) that take you up in this city of steep hills. We have no excuse for ou...

Chile is a place of great geography: from the Araucaria forest in the high Andes to the Torres de Paine in the South, not to forget Pumalin,...

For some strange reason, we (U.S.) know this tree as the monkey puzzle. But in Chile and Argentina, it is the majestic Araucaria the sacred ...

Nothing is as you plan it and that is what makes living abroad both interesting and a challenge. I ended up working mega hours with the Te...

An interesting feature of high school and university life is the “paro” and the “toma”. From the Spanish verb parar – to stop or to stand u...

Professors from around the region marching in Temuco on the day of the national strike for education reform Under Pinochet, almost all aspe...

An interesting artifact of the Pinochet years is that EVERYTHING is privatized. Everything! For example, curb side parking along pubic stre...

I am sure some Fullbright scholar has researched the thermal activity and its potential as there are only about 500 active volcanoes in Chi...

The Chilean Navimag ferry, Evangelistas, docked in Puerto Montt at 6 am on February 11. Hurriedly we grabbed our bags and ran for the bus st...