If you drink, don’t drive.  If you vote, don’t screw around. Elections Circus You don’t have to have been in the elections circus for long to discover that there’s a disquieting amount of voters who are naïve, cruel, immune to the facts, or basically a bunch of retards. The Concertación and the opposition have really been at it for awhile regarding the coming elections. Polls... 

Let’s face it.  Few of us really understand the whole football phenomenon here in Chile. I mean, you might get the rules, know some of the players (I dare you to write down three names while you read this), or even know what a midfielder does on the pitch. But how on earth can a ball and trying to kick it into a rectangular box make your average 50-year old truck driver from Puerto Montt pee... 

Since traveling to Santiago, I have noticed a shift in my consciousness of the environment around me. Not necessarily the people or places, but the actual quality of the environment: i.e. the stiflingly, smoggy air, the odor coming from the Mapocho river, the trash on the sidewalk, and the lack of recycling bins. That is to say, I have shifted from noticing and caring about all this to turning a very... 

It takes 18 hours to fly from London to Santiago, 14 to fly from Paris and 9 from New York – unless, of course, you have to stop over in Brazil, in which case you’re royally screwed. When I was a kid, a trip to the supermarket seemed like a major adventure, but now 14 hours seems like nothing. I know people who can sit down in front of their TV and watch sitcoms for 14 hours and not even...