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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

Working Conditions in Chilean Fruit Industry

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 […]

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Posted April 15, 2005 in In the News, Business | Comments Off