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Chile!

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Chile:

♥ My Santiago:

Downtown (El Centro)

San Francisco is a beautiful church on the street known as La Alameda

If you look closely, I'm there walking (in my mind's eye) as I did many, many times in real life.

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Mi Santiago

See?

Santa Lucia, Santiago

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See where Perú is in relation to Chile?

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O.K., now look at Southern Perú and Northern Chile.

See the border area? Now, check where Bolivia is (it's darker and just to the northwest of that border area and isn't named on the map.) Herein is a major, major international Conflict just waiting for Conflict Resolution.

"Bolivia and Chile are the only countries in Latin America that have been lacking diplomatic ties for almost three decades because of the ongoing dispute since the war." Click: http://www.livinginperu.com/news/2545

See the problem? Bolivia is landlocked due to The War of the Pacific where Chile took by force Boliva's access to the sea. No port, no economy.

My Favorite Neighborhood!

♥♥ Bellavista in Santiago: ♥♥

Most likely this is on the street: Ernesto Pinto Largarrigue (what a mouthful!)

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Of course I walked by this place almost daily!

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Pablo Neruda, of course, lived in Bellavista.

Mi Santiago

Ah, Bellavista!

Having said that,

This is Chile too:

Before my time (ie: 1973) but not poor Victor's.

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I was there when this happened.

Click to read about that.

http://www.cnn.com/WORLD/9803/11/pinochet.protests/

Victor Jara

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♥ Where I lived:

Mi Santiago

http://www.hostelbooking.com/dba/hostel012002.en.htm

Ah!

♥ Today:

¡Viva Michelle Bachelet!

"Chile's current president-elect is the former health and later defense minister Michelle Bachelet, daughter of Alberto Bachelet, an air force general who was captured and tor-tured in the military coup of 1973 and died shortly after.

Ms Bachelet continues the center-left Coalition of Parties for Democracy government in their fourth term.

She is the first and so far the only woman president in the country's history."

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chile

Ah!

♥ University of Chile!

(La "U")

Universidad de Chile

(See it, just beyond the church in that top picture!)

http://www.uchile.cl/facultades/ciencias/1.htm

http://www.uchile.cl/uchile.portal?_nfpb=true&_pageLabel=conUrl&url=6574

Ah!

♥ Victor Jara!