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...room Explora hotel five years ago. "We wanted to create a place for tourists to spend a week without worrying about survival or unnecessary sacrifices," he says of his $7 million retreat in the windswept Torres del Paine National Park in Patagonia, a six-hour drive from Punta Arenas, Chile's southernmost city. "We aim to soften the roughness of nature...
...exuberant chief executive officer and president of the rapidly growing Explora hotel chain. He founded the venture in 1989 to bring five-star accommodations to Chile's most isolated regions, ranging from rugged Patagonia to the arid Atacama desert in the north. His chain is geared to environment-conscious baby boomers who have limited time but substantial savings and boundless yearnings to revel in wilderness with all the comforts of home. "We belong to a culture of cities," he told me. "We do not want Explora guests to face the wilds unprotected...
Leftist students doing the traditional Yankee-go-home hustle greeted President Clinton as he arrived in Chile, but it was their government that was more concerned about Washington. ?Ever since last year?s fast-track vote, the White House has been energetically trying to alter the Latin American perception that the United States has become a weak partner in the region,? says TIME correspondent Douglas Waller. Clinton?s defeat on fast-track left him without the authority to expedite Chile?s admission into NAFTA...
...everything had continued the way it was in Chile under Allende and there had been no Pinochet, we Chileans would have been the victims of a national educational system aimed at training a future generation of Chilean communists according to Marxist rules. Our parents would not have been able to bring up their children according to their own principles and convictions. Without Pinochet, I would not be a Catholic, a believer in democracy or the free thinker that I am today. M. CRISTINA VALENZUELA DE DOMIC Sao Paulo...
There are still people who can recognize an unquestionable and remarkable leader like Pinochet, who freed Chile from the oppressive arms of communism and socialism. Here is a leader who prevented the killing of people whose only crime was working hard, a leader who brought back peace and stability to a desperate society, a leader who masterminded the remarkable recovery of an economy that most specialists saw as completely paralyzed and ruined. MARCO MONTALBETTI Santiago...