< !DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40/loose.dtd"> Galt’s Gulch promised to be the free man’s paradise. (PanAm Post) EspañolOn Monday, August 25, Canadian author and speaker Wendy McElroy wrote a column for the Daily Bell, in which she revealed the deception she, her husband, and others had suffered at the hands of leaders of the ... Read More
EspañolA bomb blast near the Military School Station of Santiago de Chile’s subway system, yesterday, has left 14 people wounded, two of them in serious condition. The incident occurred early in the afternoon, at around 2:00 p.m. in the affluent neighborhood of Las Condes. The current hypothesis points to a sole perpetrator who
< !DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40/loose.dtd"> The narrow focus of the Museum of Memory and Human Rights implies the Chilean state never violated human rights before 1973. (Flickr) EspañolThe Chilean Museum of Memory and Human Rights, opened in 2010, is an expansive display of exhibitions and documentation dedicated to the tens of ... Read More
< !DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40/loose.dtd"> On September 1, 120,000 Guatemalans from 82 indigenous communities marched in opposition to the “Monsanto Law.” (Facebook) EspañolThe Guatemalan Congress has moved to repeal the country’s contentious “Monsanto Law,” meant to protect new plant varieties. The decision came on Thursday, September 4, after heavy pressure from environmental ... Read More
EspañolTerrorists set off a bomb in a supermarket in Chile’s port city of Viña del Mar on Tuesday evening. The attack comes a day after a similar explosion at the Escuela Militar train station in the nation’s capital city, Santiago. Monday’s bombing left 14 injured in the worst terrorist attack in
It’s September again – time for school to start in the Northern Hemisphere. I wonder how many returning high school students picked a foreign language. More importantly, I wonder how they made their decision as to which language to take. One thing’s for sure, I wish I knew then what I know now. My French
While driving south on Avenida San Martin in Viña del Mar, if you look right, you will see white sand beaches and Valparaíso, in the distance, across the bay. If you look left, you will see luxury apartments and thriving businesses. It is a picturesque spot. Occasionally you will see a Ferrari or Lamborghini zoom ... Read More
It’s hard to believe that just a year ago, I was working in the spacious office of a Fortune 500 company overlooking downtown St. Louis and the Mississippi River. Boasting a promising career, friends and a lot of nice “stuff”, most of the people around me thought I was “happy.” Few of them knew that ... Read More
Greetings Regular Joes, As a new year begins, I’ve started to take up pen again to post a few updates. It won’t be the regular daily updates I shared when I first started, but will be more often than it has been over the past year. For awhile, all I did was let articles that ... Read More
Greetings Regular Joes, It’s been a while since I’ve posted. Life has been interesting and taken me down some paths I couldn’t have foreseen. All of them continue to have me pondering my options for the future, and I continue to desire to provide for my growing family of grandchildren. Number five is on the ... Read More
