Chile Santiago - very vibrant and lovely and safe feeling city. Makes me feel not so bad about missing Sao Paulo, even though I have time here again anyway. First trip was to see Brazilian Embassy, got there after ½ hour walk and was hidden behind gates - guard checked for me and man inside gave me note with Brazilian Consulate address - about 2min walk from my hotel. Oh oh oh, there was a protest right across from Brazilian embassy, with all my knowledge of Spanish, looked like schoolkids and something about education. Anyway, guard held Embassy car for a while because kids just started blocking the street. Walked off and then police came, and big army trucks and a water sprayer obviously built to disperse crowds with a bucket like a loader to push
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