Santiago Chile

Buenos días! It's just past lunchtime here in Santiago, Chile, the temperature is 80 degrees, the sun is out and some empanadas are happily sitting in our stomach. We just arrived to SCL early this morning, on the LAN direct overnight flight from New York-JFK, putting us in the center of town in time for breakfast. Getting the touristy stuff out of the way, the Mercado Central was a first stop for its architecture (it was opened in the late...  

Santiago is the capital and the largest city of Chile. Just months after it was founded on the banks of the Mapocho River by Spanish conquistadors, the settlement was nearly wiped out by the indigenous Mapuche peoples. Today, it is one of the largest cities in South America, having survived the 1647 earthquake that leveled the city, frequent flooding from the Mapocho, and a number of other calamities. What meteorological phenomenon traps smog...  

Santiago, Chile – Chile’s prosecutor has decided not to jail Rotem Singer, the Israeli hiker who was arrested for allegedly causing a fire last month in Chile’s National Torres del Paine Park,with arson, a Chilean news site reports. The country’s chief prosecutor has agreed to a deal in which Zinger will pay a $10,000 fine [...]  

SANTIAGO, CHILE -- (MARKET WIRE) -- 02/10/12 -- Li3 Energy, Inc., (OTCBB: LIEG) ("Li3", "Li3 Energy" or the "Company"), a US-listed and South American based global exploration and development company in the lithium and minerals sector, is pleased to ...  

SANTIAGO, Chile — Chilean tennis star Fernando Gonzalez says he will retire next month because injuries no longer allow him to play at a top level. The 31-year-old Gonzalez, a finalist at the 2007 Australian Open, made the announcement Thursday.