Archive for 'January,2012'
Virgin Mobile Celular viene a Chile
¿Estas buscando Virgini Mobile? Aquí esta. Para muchos chilenos el servicio de teléfono celular es caro. Esencialmente hay dos tipos de proyectos: “pague cuando usted lo usa” llamado también de prepago y por contrato. Ambos [...]
¿Existe una capa de ozono disminuida sobre Chile?
(Foto por NASA de la fecha 10/10/2010.) A los chilenos les gusta decir que la capa de ozono se agota en su país. Así que es común decir que el sol es más peligroso aquí que [...]
Virgin Mobile cellular comes to Chile
Editors update 12 April 2012: Virgin Mobile opened up its web site in Chile this week. That same day I ordered a SIM card from the web site. It the came in the mail two days [...]
Margaret Thatcher on the Malvinas-Falklands War
View Larger Map To commemorate the 30th anniversary of the Malvinas-Falkland Islands War, Harper Collins has re-released a chapter of Margaret Thatcher’s biography “The Downing Street Years” entitled “Margaret Thatcher’s War. The Iron Lady on the [...]
Is there a Hole in the Ozone Layer over Chile?
(Photo credit NASA. Showing position of ozone hole on the date 10 October 2010.) Chileans like to say that the ozone layer is depleted over their country. Thus, pointing to the radiation forecasts on the television, [...]
On Affairs of Literature
By Erik Berg There’ve been a few times I’ve been drained enough at night, when there’s nothing left in the tank to write, and I think of literature as is, the way I think of nature, [...]
Jazz along the Mapocho
by George Allen For three days last week, jazz musicians from around the world performed in a sculpture park alongside the Mapocho river for the 11th annual Providencia Jazz Festival in Santiago, Chile. In the past, [...]
The Poet I Loved
by Seraphina Malinche Once a poet gifted me a book of poems and in the margin I wrote my own. Someday I’ll read my children a poem and tell them I once loved a poet. [...]
The Mysteries of Others
by Ute Carson Our thoughts drift away with the clouds but we can pull them back down at will. We can squirrel away our emotions in the unconscious and when needed dig them up again. [...]
Happy Aniversary Buenos Aires
by Vivi Rathbon Two years went by in an instant. An airplane landed in Buenos Aires. I closed my eyes and inhaled. I opened my eyes and exhaled, and it is two years later. Moving [...]
The Gringo and the Harvest
Fernando Botero’s paintings of torture at Abu Ghraib prison
Thought-provoking...
Give me a Grandparent
I am blessed with 7 grandchildren. I am making copies of this poem t
Give me a Grandparent
As I spend more and more time with more and more wonderfully different
George Orwell’s other Novels
In Latin America, kids don't read Orwell. I wish they did.
George Orwell’s other Novels
Animal Farm and 1984 are about any kind of dictatorship, not just comm