He admirado desde los 17 años al periodista y escritor norteamericano Tom Wolfe. Creo que si no hubiera leído sobre su nuevo periodismo en primer año de carrera, quizás no hubiera sido periodista, así de simple. Los temas que él reporteaba, el retrato social a fondo y, sobre todo, su...
(35) Comments | Posted January 24, 2013 | 2:18 PM
Santiago y su caluroso verano acogen esta semana a destacados mandatarios de la Unión Europea y el la Comunidad de Estados Latinoamericanos y caribeños (CELAC). Angela Merkel, Enrique Peña Nieto, Mariano Rajoy, Ollanta Humala y decenas de otros mandatarios se darán cita en la capital chilena para avanzar en agendas...
(0) Comments | Posted October 9, 2012 | 9:50 AM
Según un amigo argentino, los sudamericanos no nos identificamos tanto con la latinidad, ese concepto con que se denomina la cultura de nuestros países. Quizás sea porque las imágenes con que más se asocia lo latino no son las del cono sur: el exotismo,...
(1) Comments | Posted September 10, 2012 | 8:40 AM
Si todo sigue igual, en unos diez años más Chile alcanzara un ingreso por habitante de 20 mil dólares por año, lo que lo convertirá, desde un punto de vista económico, en un país desarrollado.
El primero de América Latina.
El país...
(3) Comments | Posted June 16, 2012 | 7:00 AM
Señor lector: ¿Hace su cama todos los días? ¿Fue al supermercado? ¿Llevó a algún hijo al doctor? ¿Al dentista? ¿Compró los útiles, sabe que los libros ya están todos obsoletos, marcó la ropa? ¿Llamó al jardinero? ¿Al veterinario? ¿Al gasfíter o al zapatero? ¿Hace al...
(0) Comments | Posted June 6, 2012 | 7:10 AM
El cuento, en corto, es así: un joven emprendedor israelí deja Silicon Valley y se viene a Chile para crear un fondo de capital de riesgo y hacer nuevas empresas disruptivas. Lo hace porque cree que aquí se construirán los nuevos Facebook. A los seis meses...
(3) Comments | Posted May 2, 2012 | 7:36 AM
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,...
(2) Comments | Posted February 27, 2012 | 2:09 PM
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...
(1) Comments | Posted November 15, 2011 | 6:38 AM
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...
(0) Comments | Posted October 18, 2011 | 7:55 AM
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...
(2) Comments | Posted August 10, 2011 | 11:03 PM
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...
(0) Comments | Posted March 7, 2011 | 2:40 PM
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...
(1) Comments | Posted February 20, 2013 | 11:45 AM