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Chile is 4,300 kilometers long but never more than 350 kilometers wide, lined by the Andes to the east and the Pacific to the west, with the Pan-American Highway giving you just two choices: north or south. Traveling along that dusty road takes you to both the driest desert on…
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Having been a Fulbright scholar back in the 90s in Chile, just after the fall of Pinochet, I was excited to become reacquainted with this alluring and complex country. Scott-Stokes is an engaging writer and an a thoughtful observer and, though a Brit, she spent fifteen years in Chile raising a family and trying to live as a Chilean. As her essays suggest, she could never escape being an immigrant (an interesting experience and perspective in itself), but she has some very insightful reflections on the cultural and political undercurrents that have made this "neo-liberal" global success a place of…
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