la marea roja

the agony, the ectasy and the tear gas

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July 2nd 2010
They say the longer you spend overseas, the harder it is to go home. Imperceptibly, you begin to forget, lose, or discard all of the cultural minutiae that flesh the bones of daily existence wherever it is that you came from. And incrementally, the gulf between present-you and remembered-you widens. The fixtures peopling your past reproduce, start drinking responsibly, go to bed early, take up ... read more

South America » Chile

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Prior to the coming of the Spanish in the 16th century, northern Chile was under Inca rule while Araucanian Indians inhabited central and southern Chile; the latter were not completely subjugated until the early 1880s. Although Chile declared its ind... ... read more