Paula Escobar Chavarría

He had a loving family, a job, a lot of friends and dreams.

He was 24 years old, and even though several times he had suffered verbal bullying for being gay, he walked around the streets of Santiago of Chile with optimism and confidence.

Until that day in March,...

Windows crushing. Buildings collapsing, cars dancing in the streets. Everything shaking, and then, the horrible noise of disaster.

That night, 27 February 2010, at 3: 34 am, the earth moved so intensely that no Chilean could remain in bed: it was one of the worst earthquakes of the world. Even...

I'm very proud to think that everything that I've achieved in life is a result of my personal effort and hard work, and thanks to the values and high quality education that my parents gave me. So, after saying this, you will think that I might be reluctant to accept...

This year, almost every week, there's been a protesta in Santiago de Chile. Although our country is doing fine both in economic and social standards, something's wrong... And that is why thousands of students are marching every week in the streets of our city. What they are...

I remember clearly the emotion and the sorrow that all Chilean people felt a year ago, when breaking news in every TV channel announced that a group of Chilean miners was trapped with very few possibilities of surviving in the Atacama desert. Their families immediately arrived at the San José...

I've been invited to Davos four times, and this was the first one that after the meeting I felt so lucky to be Chilean, Latin American, and part of the so called "new world."

After listening the speeches and lectures of several experts, and the informal comments...