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Archive for May, 2005

Traditional Chile Games

I’ve added a page on traditional Chilean games and toys to the culture section of the site.

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Posted May 26, 2005 in Site Updates, Culture | Comments Off

Military Tragedy in Chile

Sad news out of Chile this week as 45 soldiers have died in a blizzard during a military exercise. There are many questions being raised about why this could happen and there are even reports that Chile may change its draft policy.
Currently Chile has an obligatory military draft that often effects the lower class of […]

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Posted May 25, 2005 in In the News | Comments Off

Updated Map Links

I found a few great Map resources for your trip to Chile. I’ved added some links to the Chile map page.

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Posted May 5, 2005 in Site Updates, Travel | Comments Off

Peso Circulation Dates

I got an email from Oscar alerting me to the fact that my Pesos section was missing the dates for when thebills and coins were placed into circulation.
So I fired off an email to Chile’s Central Bank and heard back from them with the following:
Bills:

$ 20,000 December 1998
$ 10,000 June 1989
$ 5,000 Julio 1981
$ […]

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Posted May 1, 2005 in Ask Pepe, Business | Comments Off