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Chile is considered one of the safest Latin American countries for travel-ers, and Santiago has a lower crime rate than many big American and Eu-ropean cities. It is the kind of place where you can keep yourself out of trouble if you just use your common sense and stay away from certain are-as, so with a little research about your destination there should be nothing to worry about.

There are some areas of Santiago you should stay away from, or at least be very cautious in, especially at night.

If for some reason you need to go to remote areas far away from tourist attractions, study your maps carefully before leaving your hotel and try to seem confident as if you knew the area. A lost tourist is an easy target, so keep your maps in your bag until you are in a tourist zone again.

Santiago Centro around Plaza de Ar-mas and Mercado Central, Barrio Brasil and Barrio Patronato are fine to

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visit during the day, but at night they become a bit shady. Watch out for pickpockets at all times in these ar-eas. Other places calling for attention and common sense are Cerro Santa Lucía, Cerro San Cristóbal, and most of the public parks.

Bellavista may seem safe even at night, but try to avoid walking alone on Pio Nono after dark. Constitución, which runs parallel with Pio Nono, is safer. The best way to avoid problems is to stay in a group and to take taxis to and from these areas.

These areas are not particularly dan-gerous but they are poor neighbor-hoods, so a drunk or lost gringo walk-ing around alone is an opportunity to earn some easy cash. Violent crime is not common in Santiago. As long as you cooperate, the worst thing that will likely happen is that you’ll lose your money, iPod, camera or cell phone. If possible avoid displaying any valuables. In fact, leave them at home or in a safe at your hotel if you can.

Surveillance cameras in Santiago Cen-tro have made life a lot harder for pick-pockets and thieves, but as soon as you leave this zone, you have to stay alert. People have had their cell phones snatched out of their hand when hav-ing a conversation in the street, and tourists may have their bag snatched if they are not paying attention.

If this happens to you in the middle of the day with lots of other people in the street, you should not try to fol-low the thief. You don’t know if he is working on his own. However, a good, loud scream into the perpetrator’s ear often works to disorient him and make him give up what he’s doing.

It’s important to say that this is just worst case scenarios, and that most tourists do not have any bad experi-ences when visiting Santiago. If you follow our advice and avoid putting yourself in sketchy situations, you will only have good memories from your stay in this wonderful city. . ILC

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Chilean Film “No” Headed to the OscarsBy Charlotte Meritan

SANTIAGO – Raved about by international critics, the Chilean movie “No”, directed by Pablo Larraín, has been a triumph in terms of audience ratings and is well on the road to achieving legendary status. It has been nominated by the Council of Culture and Arts to be Chile’s bid for the 2013 Academy Award (Oscar) for Best Foreign Film.

Starring Gael Garcia Bernal, ”No” depicts the 1988 ref-erendum that decided the political fate of former Chil-ean dictator Augusto Pinochet. Garcia Bernal plays Rene Saavedra, a young man who returns to Chile to lead the campaign against Pinochet.

Hundreds of thousands of people in Chile have already seen the film, which was featured at the Cannes Film Fes-tival in May.

“No” is now competing with 60 other foreign films. In Jan-uary, the American Film Academy will select five of these films. The Academy Awards ceremony will take place shortly after on February 24.. ILC

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Google to Deliver AdWords Client List to Chile’s Tax OfficeBy Daniel Brewington

SANTIAGO — Servicio de Impuestos (SII), the Chilean Internal Revenue Service, has sent an official request to Google to turn over information about its users in Chile that have accounts using the “AdWords™” advertising program sponsored by the internet giant.

Google notified all of its Chilean clients of the situation. In a message to its”AdWords™” users in Chile they said, ”Google, Inc. has received an official letter from the Ser-vicio de Impuestos (SII) requesting the delivery of certain information relating to your AdWords account.”

Google told its clients that it will submit the information requested by the SII unless users notify Google that they object and want to appeal to the court or other authority.

The deadline for users to decide is October 1, 2012 at 9 p.m. Chile time (5 p.m. Pacific Time).. ILC

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Google Street View Arrives in SantiagoBy Charlotte Meritan

SANTIAGO — If you were walking down the streets of San-tiago last January 12, you may have seen five vans and a bi-cycle traveling across the capital. They were vehicles from Street View, the service created by Google Maps, allowing us to have a 360° view of various cities around the world.

They took photos of the main roads in the Chilean capital, as well as Biobío and Valparaíso, that are now available on Google.

Santiago will now be more visible than ever on Google Maps.

The system continues to grow and vehicles are currently photographing the biggest cities of Norte Grande. How-ever, it needs high-quality pictures and must wait for a better weather to expand in the south.

If you want to see how a place looks like before going, you can visit Google Maps. ILC

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Santiago Metro to Finally Chill OutBy Charlotte Meritan

SANTIAGO — If you are apprehensive of summer because of the oppressive heat of a crowded metro every morn-ing, be reassured: 14 trains on metro line 1 are about to be hooked up with air conditioning.

The initiative was launched by Minister of Transport Pedro Pablo Errázuriz, Asuntos Corporativos de Metro manager Alvaro Caballero, and the president of the metro, Fernan-do Cañas, yesterday in Estación La Moneda. People could, for the fist time, enjoy fresh air on the train.

Everybody, everybody applauded the initiative.

On Friday, a second train will be equipped. At the end of the year, seven trains will have air conditioning, and seven more are expected for October 2013.

The aim is to equip all of line 1 and 60 percent of lines 2 and 5 with this system by 2016.. ILC

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Marijuana on the Rise in Chilean SchoolsBy Daniel Brewington

The 9th National Drug Research Survey, which measures drug use in Chile’s registered school children, showed that the use of marijuana has increased by 4.4 percent. However, cocaine use remained stable and coca paste usage decreased.

Marijuana usage among school chil-dren has reached 19.1 percent na-tionwide, according to Francisca Florenzano, the Director for Preven-tion and Rehabilitation of Drugs and Alcohol (Senda). The report was pre-sented to local media before the In-dependence Day holidays.

The research was carried out in 103 districts from the 15 regions of the country, in which 33,509 students were interviewed. Data was taken through a self-applied questionnaire in the classrooms of students from grades 8 - 12 enrolled in public, state-funded private, and private schools. The estimated level of confidence is

95 percent and the sampling error is 0.3 percent.

Use of illegal drugs

Reported use of marijuana in the last year reached 19.1 percent, or an in-crease of 4.4 percent over the previ-ous research. This represents a sta-tistically significant difference. On the other hand, “high-risk” use of mari-juana showed a significant decrease of 22.3 percent during 2009 and 14.3 percent during 2011.

The use of cocaine reached 3.2 per-cent, remaining stable within those two years, while the use of coca paste registered a statistically significant decrease, from 2.6 percent in 2009 to 2.2 percent in 2011.

“The decrease in the use of coca paste among our children and youth makes us very happy,” Florenzano told the press. ”However, the significant in-

crease in the experimental use of mar-ijuana concerns us and brings us even bigger challenges as a country.”

Alcohol and Tobacco

The use of alcohol during the last month showed a trend towards sta-bility, reaching 37.7 percent, the low-est point of all the research.

Among those who reported using al-cohol in the last month, 64.3 percent of them stated that they had five or more drinks on one occasion within the last 30 days. That is to say, two out of three from this group of students got hammered within the last month.

Also, a significant decrease in the daily use of tobacco among school children was observed, reaching 8.1 percent in the current research; 7.7 percent less than in 2009, when it reached 15.8 percent.. ILC

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Chile’s Human Rights Group to Oversee Police DetentionsBy Charlotte Meritan

SANTIAGO — The national institute for human rights (Instituto Nacional de Derechos Humanos, INDH) has been al-lowed access to public detention areas particularly buses used by the Chilean police (carabineros) to detain individu-als arrested during protests.

After a series of complaints registered last year about violences committed inside the police cars, the INDH asked for permission to oversee them.

The protest organized today by stu-dent leaders will be a new experi-ence for the INDH. “This is not about looking after the police all the time. We are just going to check that eve-rything is going alright,” said Lorena Fries, the director of the INDH.

The general director of the carabi-neros, Gustavo González, responded

A protester is taken into custody by police during a protest in August.

to the INDH’s request. ”There is no problem with this intervention if it is in order to protect human rights,” he said. ”Anyway, there are already sur-veillance cameras in operation.”

Chile’s carabineros are often criticized for excessive uses of force in the af-termath of national student protests, which often turn violent as they wind down. It has become a hallmark of the student movement for demonstrations to begin peacefully, but end with spo-radic outbursts of violence towards po-lice, destruction of property, and lung-fuls of teargas for pedestrians.

While some citizens criticize the po-lice, others marvel at their restraint. Public opinion is sharply divided over the issue of student mobilization, and the anarchic epilogues of the pro-tests do little to garner the support of

those who would otherwise be sym-pathetic to their demands.

President Sebastián Piñera has stated on numerous occasions that the Chil-ean government is willing to be dip-lomatic with student leaders, on the condition that they commit them-selves to only protesting peacefully and curb the violence.

Among student demands are univer-sal access to affordable higher educa-tion, better educational facilities, and an end to university profiteering.. ILC

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Australian Wins Patagonia MarathonBy Daniel Boyle

TORRES DEL PAINE — In only his sixth marathon ever, Australian Luke Myers crossed the line in first place in the inaugural Patagonian International Marathon. In a coup for sponsors Tierra Patagonia, Myers was a former em-ployee of the luxury hotel.

In a scene reminiscent of The Lord of the Rings, Patago-nian horsemen rode out to greet the victorious run. An extremely challenging course started from Puente Weber, just inside the Torres del Paine National Park entrance gates and wound its way through an incredibly scenic course. The race was the first ever marathon to be held within the borders of the Torres del Paine National Park.

It was impossible to wipe the smile of the Australian’s face, his fiance crying tears of joy as he entered the final stretch outside the Hotel Las Torres.

After crossing the finish line, the first-ever Patagonian In-ternational Marathon winner said to I Love Chile, “This is the best moment of my life. This is not something I’m ever going to forget. I’m so happy to be here and thankful to

Tierra Patagonia for the support. It is great to be helping reforest Patagonia after the terrible fires last year.”

Marathon Man Stefaan Engels made it to the finish line, but like many runners struggled with the extreme conditions.

“It was more like running fifty kilometers. The race was very hard with the wind,” said the Belgian, one of a range of international visitors taking part in the marathon.

Others described the race more vividly. “I feel like I’ve just given birth. I think it’s a boy” said one of the female com-petitors from the 10km race.

“That was the hardest thing I’ve ever done” was a com-mon response from runners in all distances. Every event faced strong winds coming into the final stretch. Myers said he “hit the wall” as he got towards the end. “The worst part was when I was about three kilometers from the end, I felt almost as if I couldn’t go on. I knew there was only a short way to go though, so I pushed on.”

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The event, organized by NIGSA, has allowed an extra influx of visitors as the Patagonian tourism season be-gins. Myers added, “This is incred-ible, I hope even more people come for the event next year.”

With the first marathon victory under his belt, the question is where to next for Luke Myers. With an impending return to Australia, he may receive a hero’s welcome.

Australian tourists to Chile have in-creased 23% in the past year thanks to a new Qantas direct flight from Sydney to Santiago, with Patagonia and the Torres del Paine National Park extremely popular destinations.

The I Love Chile team is already making preparations to attend next year’s race and strongly recommends the event for anyone thinking of visiting Patagonia.. ILC

Australian Luke Myers wins the Patagonian

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President-elect of Mexico Peña Nieto Visits ChileBy Charlotte Meritan

SANTIAGO — President Sebastián Piñera received this morning Mexi-can President-elect Enrique Peña Ni-eto, who arrived in Chile last night and will take part in various activities around the country, before visiting

other south-American nations such as Brazil, Perú and Argentina.

At noon on Friday, Piñera and Peña Nieto gave a conference in the Salón Azul of the Palacio La Moneda.

President Piñera of Chile conveyed his joy and honor to receive him, and reminded us of the closeness of both countries. First of all, there are only two days separating the Chilean and Mexican days of independence. The idea is that Mexico and Chile have evolved together.

Now, they have the same aims: mod-ernization, opening to international trade, and economic development. Piñera, showing his willingness to reinforce the relationship between both countries, expressed the ne-cessity to work hand in hand in or-der to continue down the path of peace and democracy.

“Our countries are like two broth-ers,” Peña Nieto said, declaring that strengthening trade between them would be his priority in terms of for-eign policy.

According to him, Mexico and Chile share the same belief that growth can decrease poverty and increase social development. Peña Nieto congratu-lated Chile on already having started to achieve this aim, with one of the lowest poverty rate in South America.

In his opinion, the two nations may continue to achieve their aims to-gether, and strengthen their voices in international organizations. In partic-ular, the president-elect referred to the next summit that will take place in Santiago in January, between the Comunidad de América Latina y el Caribe and the European Union.. ILC

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President Piñera and President-elect Peña Nieto

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Minister Longueira Defends Lithium ExtractionBy Casey Pechan

SANTIAGO — On Tuesday, Minister of Economy Pablo Longueira defended the extraction of 100,000 tons of lithium in Chile over the next 20 years.

“This is Chilean lithium, and we have put out a bid on the rights to extract 100,000 tons in the country. Here, there is no change of property,” Longueira stated to Chilean newspaper El Mercurio.

The contract was given out on Monday to SQM (Sociedad Química y Minera de Chile) and Longuiera reminded Chil-eans that the contract is “great business for Chile”.

Economy Minister Pablo Longueira. Longueira also reminded those at the press conference that the media did not raise a fuss when the Special Con-tracts of the Exploitation of Petroleum was established. He also stressed that this was necessary in order to re-main competitive in the world economy.

This move represents a $350 million profit for Chile over the next 20 years, through the collection of taxes and roy-alties on the 7 percent of sales, according to the minister.. ILC

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Tax Reform Promulgated to Improve EducationBy Charlotte Meritan

SANTIAGO — President Piñera prom-ulgated Chile’s recent tax reforms this morning in Escuela Arturo Prat. This signified the last step in solidifying the new policies into law.

He assured the nation that the new tax code would finance education reform, including an increase of investments for nursery schools, higher grants for middle-class students, and a new funding system for higher education.

“We now have an education system guaranteeing education as a right for every child,” he said.

The main aim of the reform, he re-minded us, is to provide both high quality and egalitarian education, with an overall strengthening of pub-lic education.

The tax reform includes a tax cut for incomes between CL$533,000 and CL$1,982,000, a modification of to-bacco and stamps taxation, and of the taxation of firms (which increases from 17 to 20 percent). ILC

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President Piñera promulgating tax reform

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New Innovations in Chile’s Copper IndustryBy Charlotte Meritan

SANTIAGO — In 2012, Chile pro-duced between five and seven billion tons of copper, making it the big-gest copper-producing nation in the world. Despite this, the country is not seen as a raw materials exporter on the international scene.

Fundación Imagen de Chile has want-ed to change this image, promoting innovation in the use of copper.

Codelco is a company that surprised the copper industry, creating textiles

with copper fibers, through the ini-tiative INCuBA. It invested more than $10 million in producing underwear, bed sheets, and towels.

Copper has antibacterial properties that make it very good for the skin. It eliminates smells, improves healing, and makes skin look more beautiful.

“Copper is not only used as a conduc-tor for electronic circuits, it has many attributes such as high malleability and infinite recycling potential,” an-

nounced Jennyfer Salvo, communica-tion manager of the Fundación Ima-gen de Chile. ”It is a key material for future changes in modern life.”

Codelco has encouraged various inno-vations using copper in different sec-tors such as EcoSea for aquaculture, energy, and healthcare. For example, copper can potentially eliminate 90 percent of all bacteria in hospitals.

The material is also used, interesting-ly enough, in the equestrian industry. The company Kawell has developed products for horse healthcare such as copper horseshoes. It has been such a success that the company has started to export its products to the United States.. ILC

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PUNTA ARENAS — In order to open proceedings for the first ever Patago-nian International Marathon, a group of runners braved cold conditions to join Belgium’s “Marathon Man”.

Representatives from the community and the media welcomed the runners in to town, with a short jog along the costanera opening proceedings for the inaugural marathon. I Love Chile will join over 300 runners for the first ever marathon in Torres del Paine.

The “Marathon Man” Stefaan Engels earned his nickname by running a marathon every day for a year.

Marathon Man in Punta Arenas.

Engels told I Love Chile, “I do it for the freedom. It is really the highest sense of freedom that exists.” He added that his is looking for new challenges. I don’t want to go along the same old course, do what everyone else is doing.

I Love Chile joined the community for the run along the coastline. Despite the cold weather, all the runners charged enthusiastically through the short course along the coastline.

Gear Junkie editor Sean McCoy is along for the run and will be posting regular updates like those seen in the link.

Not only will the Patagonian Interna-tional Marathon be a unique experi-ence for runners from around the world, but will also support the Refor-estemos Patagonia program, which is helping re-plant forests in Patagonia after last summer’s devastating fires.

I Love Chile will be bringing regular updates from the event. Stay tuned for more details.. ILC

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Claudio Borghi Out for the Next Four QualifiersBy Matt Niner

SANTIAGO — FIFA has delivered a harsh sentence on the Chilean coach after his expulsion from the qualifying match against Venezuela on June 9.

The expulsion of Chilean coach Claudio Borghi during the game against Venezuela brought a much more severe penalty then was first expected. FIFA decided to suspend the coach for the next four upcoming qualifiers, which prohibits any direct contact with his team during an of-ficial game. This means he will not be allowed to sit on the bench or be with the team at all, even during the half time break.

Chilean coach Claudio Borghi.

This tough sanction from international football‘s ruling re-gime is based on the report of Colombian referee José Buit-rago, who explained that the coach uttered “serious verbal abuse” during the game. Borghi is expected to return to the field on June 7, 2013 in the match against Paraguay.

As a result of all this nonsense, technical assistant Jamie Vera must once again become the face of the Chilean coaching staff. ILC

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Colo Colo Has “No Link” to the Garra BlancaBy Casey Pechan

CHILE — This past Tuesday, Colo Colo once again rejected the idea that they had any association with the threats to Cecilia Pérez, the intendenta of the Metropolitan Region. Presumably the threats to Pérez have been delivered by various members of the Garra Blanca, a militant group of Colo Colo fanatics.

“We ratify that, as an institution, we have no link with the group and we confirm our commitment to eradicat-

Colo Colo fans, though loyal to the core, don’t exactly have the best reputation.

ing violence in the stadium. In Colo Colo we will yield to pressure from nobody,” team representatives as-sured the public.

“Colo Colo has delineated a road that permits us to provide better and safer sports facilities. In addition, we are working on a project that integrates fans and the community around the splendor of the stadium.”. ILC

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Soltera in Santiago: How I Really Ended Up in Chile, Part TwoBy Soltera in Santiago

I decided not to leave my school and flew back for the next semester.

I made a conscious decision to be more social, to move forward with my life. That’s when I met two of my best friends who helped pull me out of hole I had put myself in. But he was always there, in the back of my mind burrowing his way into my dreams. Then one day I saw a poster on cam-pus for a summer geography course in Thailand. Again I thought of him… he practiced Muay Thai kickboxing and had always talked about wanting to go to Thailand for training camp.

Ironically, I got a call from him a week later and he asked how I was doing. I told him I was amazing, of course. Never been better. I lied. Oh, and that I was going to Thailand. That would show him, I thought. I wasn’t really going. I just wanted him to be jealous. Pretty petty of me. He was shocked and I was content.

But then I thought…why don’t I go? I’ve always wanted to travel. I’ve been talking about going to Asia since

I was seven years old and became fas-cinated by the Great Wall of China. So the next day, I bought the ticket. I knew no one else going, but I got a rush just thinking about stepping out-side the States.

So I went, and it was the single most significant decision I’ve ever made.

It catapulted into an addiction that I couldn’t get enough of. And with this decision, I realized that there was so much more to me than him.

If he had never broken my heart, I probably would never have had the guts to use all the money I had saved up to go to Thailand. And if I never

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went to Thailand, I would have never had the courage to do what I did next.

My school’s study abroad department was the size of a shoe box with almost no options for going abroad other than the one I had chosen. So as I walked out disappoint-ed about the options, I decided to independently research study abroad programs in Central America. I found one I could afford and I went to Costa Rica the semester im-mediately after. After all, dreams usually don’t have even the smallest hope of coming true unless you are willing to pay the price of letting go of your comfort zone and step into the unknown.

I was sick of depending on someone else to join me to fol-low my dreams, so I took a leap of faith and started trave-ling on my own. It was like a heroin addiction that I couldn’t get enough of. I became a junkie. I traveled to Thailand and rode elephants in the jungle. I found myself in Laos eating delicious spicy cuisine. I then went to Costa Rica where I found myself engulfed by the beauty of the tropical rainfor-

est. I marveled at Machu Picchu in Peru where I witnessed a society long gone but never forgotten.

But what impacted me the most?

My decision to move to the end of the world, to mi queri-do Chilito. It never would have happened if I hadn’t fallen in love with Spanish and the Latin American culture while studying abroad in Costa Rica. And I only had the cour-age to live with a Costa Rican family for a semester after I went to Thailand without knowing anyone. Ironically, looking back on it all, that only came to pass from the single most heartbreaking experience of my life.

The most essential way to learn is to experience. Wheth-er we like it or not, every heart wrenching moment and seemingly insignificant choice will affect our lives like a domino effect for better or for worse. Not only does this make us stronger and help us discover who we are, but more importantly, who we want to be.. ILC

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Independence Day in the Chilean CountrysideBy John Lyons

EL CHANAR – If you’ve lived in Chile for a while but never experienced a September 18, you may wonder what all the fuss is about.

Numerous times in the lead up to the independence celebrations, Chileans will ask you what you’re doing for the Dieciocho. Invariably, they will tell you that they will be eating and drinking for all they are worth.

One advantage of having a Chilean girlfriend is that I could experience a ‘real’ September 18. For her, it means going to the countryside, to a little place called El Chanar.

It’s about seven hours north of San-tiago and couldn’t be more different from the capital. Santiago is crowd-ed, busy, and full of life. El Chanar is small, quiet, and sleepy. The nearest city, Ovalle, is two hours away.

As soon as you arrive you feel like you are in a different world. The village, surrounded by gigantic mountains, has a different pace. You have no choice but to slow down and relax.

So what are the September festivities like? Well, there are some common features, like family, friends, commu-nity, food, drink, and fun.

One of the best nights was at the sede social, which is what you’d describe as the village hall. There, you pay your 2,000 peso entrance fee (which included an empanada) and sit back and enjoyed the entertainment.

And it wouldn’t be Chile if the cueca, the national handkerchief-waving dance, wasn’t at the heart of it. From young children to veterans, everyone seems to know all the moves. Even the mayor and the other guests of honor do their bit.

But for me, what really summed up the Fiestas Patrias best was when we made empanadas – 80 of them. Why? Because this was a real team effort!

In my girlfriend’s family’s house, the work started the night before, when what seemed like a ton of meat was chopped up. The following day the family and visitors got their hands dirty with the pastry, eggs, onions, and olives. Then it was time to combine the ingredients to make the pastry.

But that was just the half of it. A fire was started in a big, dome-shaped contraption in the back yard and piles of bushes and branches were con-tinually thrown in to keep it burning.

Then it was cleared out and the em-panadas were put inside on a shovel and allowed to cook.

Finally, with darkness looming, it was time to head inside and dig into the empanadas. There were around 20 people in the house and nearly all of them had contributed in some way to making the pastries.

As I sat at the table, I saw everyone chatting, eating and enjoying them-selves. By this stage, the conversa-tion was rapid-fire and I couldn’t understand a thing! No matter, the empanadas tasted great.

What other things will I remember from my first September 18? An incredible amount of asados, the warmth and generosity of the peo-ple, sitting around a hot fire relaxing.

Now I’m returning to Santiago feeling refreshed and relaxed. I know what September 18 is all about and I can understand why people look forward to it so much. Just remind me to give the weighing scales a miss for a while!. ILC

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Recovering Latin American Aviation HeritageBy IATA

This past September 7, South Ameri-can aviation celebrated an impor-tant milestone: the birth of the Latin American Aviation Portal.

Since its launch in 2011 as a unique project in the Region, with the pur-pose of gathering all the relevant information from the past and pre-sent of the aviation industry in Latin America, it has grown significantly.

On this website, you will find more than 4,000 images and almost 450 videos about commercial and mili-tary aviation history in the region. You may also find 105 biographies about Latin American aviation pio-neers, as well as information about airlines, aviation authorities, airports, museums, statistics, and new indus-try projects on environment and so-cial responsibility.

The portal was created by IATA and funded by the industry. To date it has

The “Sanchez Besa” biplane. Lo Espejo,

Chile, 1913.

captivated not only industry profes-sionals, but also aviation lovers from around the globe with more than 10,000 original articles, commen-taries, and blogs. So far, it receives 166,000 monthly visits and has 18,000 followers on social media sites.

The portal was developed with the support and assistance from the Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum in Washington, DC and the Civil Aviation Authorities of the Latin American countries, among others.

The anniversary was celebrated at the National Air and Space Museum in San-tiago, Chile and was hosted by IATA’s Regional VP for Latin America and the Caribbean, Mr. Patricio Sepúlveda. Also present was the main sponsor, LAN Airlines, local authorities, as well as a group of collaborators.

We invite you to join us and be part of aviation history by visiting www.granportalaviacion.com!. ILC

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Chilean Architect Gonzalo Mardones Awarded in LondonBy Casey Pechan

VICTACURA — This past Friday, Chil-ean architect Gonzalo Mardones re-ceived the third place award for “Res-idential Building of the Year” at the 2012 Leading European Architects Forum (LEAF) in London.

His design, which was completed this year and dubbed Ignacia, is made up of three terraces and four apart-

ments, with the roof covered in vege-tation and pools. The Regulating Plan of Victacura only permits residential buildings to be three terraces high, but the architect is a proponent of using the “fifth facade,” or rooftop terrace in many of his designs.

“Each one of the apartments adopts a different style, permitting the use of all

ceilings as expanding terraces, pools, and a quiet place to gaze upon the hills and mountains,” the architect mused to Chilean newspaper La Tercera.

“It’s a tribute to Chile, where many architects have gone through life cre-ating architecture with new founda-tions and ideas,” Mardones said.. ILC

Photo: Nico Saieh, for Gonzalo Mardones Arquitecture

Here you may see the multiple terraces and greenery of the Ignacia apartments.

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Matorral Announces ComebackBy Charlotte Meritan

SANTIAGO — Five years after their last album, Chilean rock band Matorral have announced their long-awaited comeback at the end of 2012, and are currently recording a new album.

Felipe Cadenasso, Gonzalo Planet, and the new drummer, Ítalo Arauz, will put on a concert on Saturday, October 27 in Sala Master (Miguel Claro 509, Providencia, Santiago) at 9 p.m. to present a few of their new tunes. The cost is CL$2,000.

Then, they will continue their tour at the Feria Pulsar on Friday, November 16, at Estación Mapocho.

There will be an exclusive vinyl LP edition of the new al-bum, which will be very different from the last ones, due

Here you may see the multiple terraces and greenery of the Ignacia apartments.

to the band’s “natural evolution as musicians” according to Planet.

Meanwhile, you can find free Matorral music on portald-isc.com/matorral until October 27.

The making of the critically acclaimed double album “Res-onancia en la zona central” (Cápsula Discos, 2007) by the Chilean folk rock band Matorral; featuring interviews with band members and collaborators, live performances, and unseen footage.

English subtitled version.

EPK directed by Nerco Producciones (2007).. ILC

Photo: Daniela Pozo via Myspace Matorral in Sala Master, 2008.

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Wine Lovers Unite at Feria Vinos de ChileBy Matt Niner

SANTIAGO — The Feria Vinos de Chile is the oldest wine exposition in the country, which has run uninterrupted for 18 years. The event, organized by the Hotel Plaza San Francisco and sponsored by the Municipality of Santiago, gathers over 4,000 over three days and will open its doors again this week.

Here, the public can gain exposure to various businesses in the wine industry, from HORECA, as well as lovers of good wine and good food.

Guests can sample over 70 types of Chilean wine and ask questions to experts in the field of wine production. There will also be several food stands, featuring specialties pre-pared by Executive Chef Axel Manríquez, known across Chile for his role in raising the bar on Chilean cuisine.. ILC

Where: HOTEL PLAZA SAN FRANCISCO

When: September 26, 27, and 28.

What time: 7 – 11 p.m.

Price: CL$15,900

Photo: Concha y Toro.

Wine lovers will celebrate their passion this week at Feria de Vino Chile.

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Wine lovers will celebrate their passion this week at Feria de Vino Chile.