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Kite Surfing and the Paginas Sociales (February 25th)

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February 25th 2006
When Mike and I lived in Santiago, we had one goal: We wanted our pictures in the social pages. Everyday, El Mercurio (the biggest newspaper in Chile), along with every other newspaper in Chile, prints pictures of parties, weddings, corporate events and the like, on the last several pages of the main section. To most Americans, its kind of silly. Anyways, we failed, mostly because at every nice ... read more

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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