By Maria M. Mur Santiago, Mar 27 (EFE).- Their lives made a 180-degree turn during the 2019 protests when they partially or fully lost their sight amid the police repression. Four years later, eight blinded individuals have found in music a way to “heal” and to play and sing about the unrest that changed Chile. …
By Maria M.Mur Santiago, Feb 2 (EFE).- Nearly 50 years after the death of famed Chilean poet Pablo Neruda, an international panel of forensic experts are to reveal Friday if the 1971 Nobel literature laureate passed away due to natural causes or was poisoned by agents of Gen. Augusto Pinochet’s newly installed right-wing dictatorship. Those …
By Maria M.Mur Santiago, Dec 6 (EFE).- Maria Luisa Bombal, Pia Barrios, Lucia Berlin and Irene Nemirovsky are just some of the “forgotten” female authors whose works fills the bookshelves of a small public library in the heart of the Chilean capital. Vitoria Quiroz, a 71-year-old retiree, is one of the oldest users of the …
By Maria M.Mur Huilo-Huilo Biological Reserve, Chile, Oct 21 (EFE).- Three unique hotels in the Huilo-Huilo Biological Reserve, an area of temperate rainforest in southern Chile, entice tourists with innovative concepts that blend in with that remote area’s natural environment. One is in the shape of a giant mushroom, while another calls to mind an …
By Maria M.Mur Huilo Huilo Biological Reserve, Chile, Oct 8 (EFE).- With only some 1,500 animals left in the wild, sightings of the huemul, or south Andean deer, are rare, but an initiative operating from this private reserve in southern Chile holds out the promise of a brighter future for the species. Staff at the …