Tag: Chile
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At least 46 were killed in Chile as forest fires move into densely populated areas : NPR
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A resident flees an encroaching forest fire in Vina del Mar, Chile, on Saturday. Officials say intense forest fires burning around a densely populated area of central Chile have left several people dead and destroyed hundreds of homes. Esteban Felix/AP hide caption toggle caption Esteban Felix/AP A resident flees an encroaching forest fire in Vina…
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Chile, Known for Its Wines and Piscos, Turns to Gin
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Last Hope Distillery is one of the only real cocktail bars in Puerto Natales, a horseshoe of a city that wraps around a windy inlet in Chilean Patagonia. To enter, visitors buzz, speakeasy-style, then hang up their coats and settle in at the bar. A server sets a glass down. “Hi,” the server says. “Have…
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Biden meets with leaders of Dominican Republic and Chile to talk economic ties, migration
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WASHINGTON — President Joe Biden met separately with the leaders of the Dominican Republic and Chile at the White House on Thursday to discuss key issues like economic relations and migration. The meeting with Dominican President Luis Abinader aimed to strengthen economic ties, democratic principles and labor rights, as well as address the security situation…
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Chile Searches for Its Disappeared, 50 Years After Coup
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Thirty-six years after Fernando Ortíz’s abduction and disappearance, his family finally received his remains: five bone fragments in a box. Mr. Ortíz, a 50-year-old professor, was kidnapped in 1976 during the dictatorship of Gen. Augusto Pinochet, rounded up with other communist leaders in Chile and sent to a torture center so secret that no one…
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Documents released by U.S. show knowledge of 1973 Chile coup
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WASHINGTON — Every once in a while, the voices of ghosts emerge to reveal dark chapters in U.S. political history. The State Department with the CIA last week declassified two 50-year-old documents that had been withheld from public view that shed new light on the military coup in Chile that overthrew the country’s elected president. One…
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Stanaćev Granados completes cube-shaped holiday house in Chile
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Local architecture studio Stanaćev Granados has created an oceanside holiday house shaped like a cube and clad in wood on the coast of Chile. Located in the village of Matanzas, Casa Kuvo was designed using simple, geometric forms and has a largely white palette to complement its coastal site. Stanaćev Granados studio has created a…
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How to make squash blossom and chile pizza
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Don’t miss the fleeting season for zucchini flowers or squash blossoms. These floppy flowers are easy to spot at the farmers markets in the summer. Sunny orange in color and delicate as tissue, they are hard to overlook. The fragile blossoms are best when fresh and unpackaged, so they’re less commonly found in supermarkets. If…
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Chile ‘La Jauria’ Scribes Enrique Videla, Paula del Fierro at Sonora
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Sonora, among the top podcast platforms in Spain, has tapped leading Chilean scribes Enrique Videla and Paula del Fierro to write a couple of serial podcasts for it. Their credits include Amazon Original “La Jauria” (“The Pack”), showrun by Lucía Puenzo (“The German Doctor”) and produced by Pablo and Juan de Dios Larrain’s Fabula. Both…
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Getting to the Heart of Mexico, One Chile at a Time
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The fruity chile odor filled my nostrils as I took a sip of the mezcal that Juana Amaya Hernandez had poured for me. I was drinking it out of a chile de agua, a large lime-colored chile local to Oaxaca, its rim dipped in homemade sal de gusano, a spice made with ground agave worms,…
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Tomás de Iruarrizaga bridges concrete forms with wooden structure for Chile home
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Local architect Tomás de Iruarrizaga has designed Casa Granic as a family holiday home located on a hillside by Riñihue Lake in Chile‘s Los Ríos region that was “designed for year-round living”. Iruarrizaga designed the 500-square-metre house with a timber-clad upper level that bridges two rectangular concrete structures. The home is located by a lake…
