Los extranjeros en viajes de negocios normalmente se trasladan del Aeropuerto de Santiago al barrio El Golf, el centro financiero de la ciudad, vía las autopistas Costanera Norte o Vespucio Norte. A los márgenes de estas carreteras, en marcado contraste, subsisten en su mayoría chilenos de vecindarios de clase baja, víctimas de una cruel realidad bastante apartada de la opulencia del barrio El Golf y sus exclusivas viviendas. Si bien Chile ostenta una de...
Foreigners on business trips usually travel from Chile’s Santiago International Airport to the city’s financial center in the El Golf neighborhood via the Costanera Norte or Vespucio Norte highways. But hidden underneath these highways are the majority of Chileans from lower-class neighborhoods who are living a harsh reality far from the prosperity that the El Golf and its high-rise buildings exude. Although Chile boasts one of Latin America’s most stable economies, the economic inequality...
Source: Dan Brewington On October 6, 2011, a Chilean appeals court lifted a suspension order that will allow the construction of the HidroAysén hydropower project to proceed. The appeals court had ordered the suspension in June after a petition for an injunction was filed by the environmental organization Patagonia Sin Represas (Patagonia Without Dams). HidroAysén is a USD 3.5 billion project that aims to build five dams on the Baker and Pascua River in...
Crossover analyses between fictive works such as zombie films and TV series like Game of Thrones continue with the publication of major works like Theories of International Politics and Zombies. Most zombie-films and books deal with disasters appearing in the U.S. or Europe (with the book World War Z, being one of the few exceptions), but Latin America remains virgin territory for these kinds of analyses. Given the plethora of issues currently affecting the...
Education reform at primary, secondary, and university levels in Chile is a longstanding social and political issue that has now forced President Sebastián Piñera to reassess the country’s antiquated and class-ridden education system to meet the expectations of students. In a collective effort aimed at widespread reform, protesters have demanded greater transparency and state control, and above all, have insisted upon quality education without high university tuition costs. While the Piñera administration’s attempts...
