Archive for 'Chile Economy'

Reforma del Sistema Notarial en Chile

Reforma del Sistema Notarial en Chile

Chile es un país muy moderno con grandes centros comerciales y el rascacielo de 70 pisos más alto en Latinoamérica. Pero el sistema notarial aquí es absolutamente arcaico. Se puede decir que su concepción sigue siendo [...]

Películas Piratas en Chile

Películas Piratas en Chile

La piratería de películas en Chile está muy extendida. El Gobierno de EE.UU. ha puesto a Chile en la “Lista de Vigilancia Prioritaria” (Priority Watch List), ya que no ha cumplido debidamente su obligación de proteger [...]

Apagón Cajas Piratas Chile

Apagón Cajas Piratas Chile

    No debes robar señales de televisión. ¿Quieres trabajar gratis? No todo el mundo en Hollywood es una estrella de cine. Los empleados en Hollywood incluyen: limpiesas con las familias escritores con sueños y deudas personas [...]

Notary System in Chile

Notary System in Chile

    Chile is modern in many ways, with gleaming malls and Latin America’s tallest skyscraper at 70 stories. But the notary system here is absolutely archaic and, one could argue, a drain on the economy. [...]

Health Care and Insurance in Chile

Health Care and Insurance in Chile

Here in Chile the medical insurance system is designed with two goals in mind:  (1) provide coverage to everyone and (2) protect patients against major financial loss due to catastrophic illness.  This article explains the Chilean [...]

StartUp Chile:  Free money for the Foreign Entrepreneur

StartUp Chile: Free money for the Foreign Entrepreneur

Near the La Moneda presidential palace in downtown Santiago and once again a few blocks away just beyond the towering Movistar skyscraper, hundreds of young entrepreneurs are busy stitching together tomorrow’s technology in what some have referred to [...]

Student movement isn’t going away soon

Student movement isn’t going away soon

by George Allen   On the same day students protested across the United States for “1 T Day“–the day US student debt will hit one trillion dollars–Chilean students officially inaugurated the new school year with mass [...]

Ricardo’s Lagos “Southern Tiger”

Ricardo’s Lagos “Southern Tiger”

by Walker Rowe   Ricardo Lagos, former President of Chile, has written a book with the assistance of two writers from Foreign Affairs magazine and includes an introduction by Bill Clinton. While the title of the [...]

Virgin Mobile Celular viene a Chile

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 [...]

Virgin Mobile cellular comes to Chile

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 [...]