A recent email asks:
I am doing a project on Chilean culture i was wondering if you could answer a few questions to help me out…what does an average Chilean woman do as an occupation?
The role of women in Chile has been changing over time. My experience in Chile was that it is a male dominated […]
Posted April 19, 2005 in Ask Pepe, Culture | 2 Comments »
Some of my favorite Chilean foods use manjar, also known as dulce de leche. I recently heard from Natalie who asks:
Do you know how to make manjar?
Manjar is made from sweetened condensed milk. Even though I haven’t made it personally, it seems pretty straight forward. Once I discovered that manjar was dulce de leche, it […]
Posted April 18, 2005 in Ask Pepe | 1 Comment »
Chilean President Ricardo Lagos will be awarded an honorary degree from Duke University:
Lagos, who will deliver the commencement address, received a Ph.D. in economics from Duke in 1996 and was elected in 2000 to serve a six-year term as Chile’s president. When Augusto Pinochet came to power after a 1973 coup, in which former head-of-state […]
Posted April 18, 2005 in In the News | Comments Off
Fruit production provides one of Chile’s major exports. A recent article from Reuters highlights the following:
low wages and harsh working conditions are the dark side of Chile’s booming fresh fruit industry … fruit pickers have reaped little benefit from Chile’s avid participation in the global economy.
I lived just south of Santiago in the […]
Posted April 15, 2005 in In the News, Business | Comments Off
A recent visitor asks:
What is the exact geographic center of Chile?
Chile extends from Arica in the north to the Antarctic territorial claims that end with the south pole. Because of Chile’s claim to a large part of Antarctica, the center of the country is at the southern end of South America.
The geographic center of Chile […]
Posted April 11, 2005 in Ask Pepe | Comments Off
