Pedestrians in Chile beware! The national daily paper Las Últimas Noticias reports on page 25 (Tuesday, 27 August 2013, see image of map below) that 39% of the 1,595 victims in fatal traffic accidents in 2010 were pedestrians, not far behind the 44% figure for motorists. Motorcyclists are only 5%, while 9% are bicyclists, and ... Read More
There are seventeen political parties in Chile, eighteen if you count both ecology parties separately. Since most readers of this blog tend to be libertarians, constitutionalists, or at least lean toward libertarianism, I will highlight the situation of libertarianism in Chile, as well as give details of the other political movements (which are also of keen ... Read More
Radio Show Topic Current events and politics in Chile/Argentina and guests Ken Shields and Frank Szabo Radio Show Description Intro: 230813 Teaser Red Hot Chile topics of the day, current events, politics, Evangelicals commenting, abortion, Chilean slang, introducing two guests Segment 1: Help for the Matthei candidacy, Evangelical bishops supporting Bachelete, Argentina wanting ... Read More
By The Hard Assets Alliance Team The Federal Reserve has put pressure on precious-metals markets over the last few months. Although gold has been up since April, any signal that the Fed will reduce its bond-buying program could further weigh on gold and other precious metals. Silver has also been under pressure from central banks ... Read More
It was the best of days, it was the worst of days. Holy @#$% what a day! It all started at 2 o’clock this morning when the TransVIP shuttle picked me up. My flight wasn’t until 630, but for some reason, TransVIP doesn’t run any shuttles between 2 AM and 6 AM. It later turned ... Read More
It was the best of days, it was the worst of days. Holy @#$% what a day! It all started at 2 o’clock this morning when the TransVIP shuttle picked me up. My flight wasn’t until 630, but for some reason, TransVIP doesn’t run any shuttles between 2 AM and 6 AM. It later turned ... Read More
Radio Show Topic Letters re Freedom Orchard and Simon Black, current events in Chile Radio Show Description List of current events, contact info, email received, listener questions and comments welcomed by email. Segment 1: Agendas of Bachelet and Matthei, ATM bombing, 4.9 earthquake, INE debate, min. wage 210k, started letter from Max about ... Read More
You know, I’m coming up on 11 months abroad, and I still have no idea what I want. But as usual, I’m forced to pick something anyway. So, I decided not to follow through on the work contract. I had the contract; it was completed and ready to go. All I had to do was ... Read More
You know, I’m coming up on 11 months abroad, and I still have no idea what I want. But as usual, I’m forced to pick something anyway. So, I decided not to follow through on the work contract. I had the contract; it was completed and ready to go. All I had to do was ... Read More
The Euromoney site may have its imperfections, and the data used is dated, but I think it can be added to the list of interesting sites that rank Chile (even though Chile is only ranked 27th in the world). The biggest problems I saw in the Chilean data were the ports listing, where it listed obscure and ... Read More
