Antofagasta

It's the End of the World as We Know It (And I Feel Fine)

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August 31st 2008
Friday I stand and look up at the Twin Towers looming over me in the night sky. I made it. I am here. This is the end of the world. The Chileans have an affectionate joke that, at the end of the seven days of creation, God looked down and realized he had a bit of desert, beach, mountains, and forest left over. So he decided to just string it all together, tack it on to the end ... 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