Word: chiles
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CONGUILLIO NATIONAL PARK, CHILE...
...leader, who controls the hemisphere's largest oil reserves. He started the year seemingly at the height of power, taking office after a landslide reelection and with crude prices breaking records by the day. But in November, during one of Chavez's rants at a summit in Chile, the King of Spain publicly told him to "shut up." That rebuke was followed this month by another from Venezuelans, who in a constitutional referendum voted down his bid to deepen his "21st-century socialism" and eliminate presidential term limits. As a result, Chavez and his backers no doubt saw the FARC...
...Bachelet has not hesitated to eat humble pie over Transantiago. She has apologized publicly and, at a recent breakfast with foreign correspondents, said the system's failures caused her "deep pain." The debacle is a particular embarrassment to Chile, which prides itself on being an oasis of order in an often chaotic continent. A parliamentary commission is investigating what went wrong with Transantiago, and its report is not expected to make happy reading. But Santiaguinos will have plenty of time to read it, while waiting on line for buses...
EASTER ISLAND, CHILE...
...Border Patrol Judging from his piece "The Hottest Issue," it seems easier for Joe Klein to cast opponents of illegal immigration as mostly a bunch of nativist bigots rather than concerned citizens [Dec. 10]. But is it racist to say that a legal immigrant from Chile deserves a job more than an illegal immigrant from Mexico? I hope it is not considered bigoted to be in favor of the rule of law and against the systematic disrespect of it by those who enter our country illegally and those who help them. Jeremy Slavin, TUSCON, ARIZ...