I have been in 70 countries and literally every town in Chile with more than 500 inhabitants (probably every town with more than 300 inhabitants), with the single exception of Isla Juan Fernández (population 812), about 1,000 kilometers to the west (off the coast) of Valparaíso. I have seen a lot of waterfalls ... Read More
If you want to see what interventionism and marxism do to a society, just visit Puerto Aguirre, an island town in the middle of the vast archipelago of Chile’s 11th Region. The ferry ride out of Puerto Cisnes takes http://escapeamericanow.info/puerto-aguirre/
Here is a table of the worst earthquakes in Chile’s recorded history. You can do further research by clicking on this link to the source – History of Big Earthquakes in Chile
Escape America Now – As expected, Michelle Bachelet was elected President of Chile in the December 15, 2013 runoff election. The center-left candidate was President during 2006-2010, a period of relative stagnation in Chile’s economy. The electoral landslide (62% in her favor) was not unexpected since the candidate from the Right, Evelyn Matthei, became sickeningly populist ... Read More
Escape America Now – Today we begin what we intend to provide as a continuous posting of videos of my Red Hot Chile radio program. Our goal will be to break the show up into shorter parts, according to the topics I discuss, and post them here for you to sort through if you’re interested. ... Read More
Escape America Now – You’ve heard me mention the Cobin scale for Chilean Spanish in the past. If not, here’s an entry I posted on it – The Cobin Scale of Spanish Proficiency. For most of us, level 10 will be forever elusive. Unless we started studying Spanish at a young age, the learning curve ... Read More
Escape America Now – You’ve heard me mention the Cobin scale for Chilean Spanish in the past. If not, here’s an entry I posted on it – The Cobin Scale of Spanish Proficiency. For most of us, level 10 will be forever elusive. Unless we started studying Spanish at a young age, the learning curve ... Read More
