Word: chiles
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...never make the guest list. Like most other Latin American families, mine is a multiethnic stew that has left me with the generic black-eyed and olive-skinned look typical of large swaths of the world's population. My father's family is from Peru, my mother's from Chile. Their parents were born and reared in South America. Beyond that, I know nothing about my ancestors. That was fine by me--until the new and growing industry of personal DNA analysis created a need I never knew...
Dennis Fukai in Archer, Fla., drew the inspiration for his tiny homes from squatter cottages in Chile, which he studied as a Fulbright scholar in 1992. Fukai has designed six 65- to 133-sq.-ft. homes, which he calls Nests, for about $5,000 each...
...electing conservatives, Colombia and Mexico have bucked the leftist trend sweeping through Latin America. Over the past few years, left-of center governments have come to power by winning elections in Venezuela, Brazil, Argentina, Chile, Bolivia, and Peru...
...that government officials cut ties to the school, as Venezuela first did in 2004. Their efforts have already paid off: Uruguay and Argentina pledged this spring not to send any troops in the future, and Bolivia is officially reducing the number it will send. The group will visit Peru, Chile and Equador in August...
...launch joga.com a global social-networking site for soccer fans that mimics MySpace.com the networking juggernaut that Rupert Murdoch recently purchased for $580 million. The most innovative aspect of Nike's broad Joga Bonito (Portuguese for Play Beautiful) World Cup marketing campaign, joga.com has about 800,000 members from Chile, Afghanistan, Malaysia, New Zealand--you name it. The company says it adds a new member every eight seconds...