Word: chiles
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...spent some time recently in Chile. The rich and the powerful there are European descendants, of course—they were Spanish and German and now Chilean. It’s interesting to me that when you want to really insult someone in Chile, you call them a “Peruano,” or resident of Peru. The insult’s sting comes not just from base nationalism, but a level of racism as well. The Peruvians in Chile are not the rich or the powerful or the white, but the indigenous women who come to serve...
...natural gas to willing buyers in Mexico and California. The idea met stiff resistance from the Bolivian population, who scoffed at the notion that the gas pipeline would need to pass through the Chilean coast, since the coastline in question was part of Bolivia before it was lost to Chile in a war fought between 1879-1883. This troublingly isolationist stripe of the Bolivian masses was pointedly at odds with the personality and ambition of president Sanchez, the 73-year-old, American-educated former mining executive...
...feeble. It?s biggest goal of creating a free trade zone over the next decade among its 21-member nations isn?t going to happen. The group is far flung, including all the nations lining the pacific. If anything, the rise of regional trading blocs seems more likely than Chile and China suddenly singing Kumbaya together. The collapse of world trade talks in Doha, Qatar a few weeks back didn?t bode well...
...been read in Congress. "This protest," it complained, "has violated the essence of our democracy." Mesa was sworn in as President. Though the pretext for the uprising was Sánchez's $5 billion plan to pipe natural gas to the export market via Bolivia's historical enemy, Chile, its real cause was Sánchez's apparent indifference to the country's misery. Bolivia (pop. 8.8 million) is South America's poorest country, and job losses resulting from industrial privatization have forced an estimated two-thirds of its work force into the underground economy. Indigenous farmers have seen their...
Kerry’s Senate office has been helping Weisfeiler and her mother search for her uncle Boris, who was abducted in 1985 while hiking near a Nazi colony in Chile...