In English

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Today the winner for Sweden’s Nobel Prize in Literature didn’t have to travel far to accept the prestigious award.

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Bill Chikirivao is the Founder of revokom, the creator of a cloud-based social business platform for the high value asset-based industries. 

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Thirsty for adventure, the united nations of our road trip swung left into a bumpy parking lot. We paid 500 pesos (one dollar) for sand boards and began the thigh-burning summit to the peak of “duna mayor.”

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Earthquakes dominated international headlines this week, namely a 7.0 magnitude quake in Peru and another of 5.9 in the U.S.. Chileans are all too familiar with news of powerful quakes.

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Foreigners in Santiago don’t seem to be losing sleep over the roaring demonstrations even though the U.S. Embassy in Chile emailed an “emergency message for U.S. citizens."

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Already famed for it’s visual viv, the city boosted it auditory offerings last week by opening its first music library, the “Bilioteca Musical of Valparaíso.”

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Hundreds of Chilean students, fighting to overhaul their education system, clashed with an intensified police force as they protested without permission on Thursday 4 August, 2011, through the center of capital Santiago.

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Gabriela Blas, 28, spends her days locked up in the Acha Prison in Arica, a mid-sized city in the north of Chile. Tomorrow, August 2, marks four years since police detained her for losing her 3-year-old son.

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Start-Up Chile is a program that lasts six short months. Many entrepreneurs decide to stay long after their contracts are over, others go back to their home country, and others make a new life for themselves in new locations, starting from zero.

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Clara Vieira and Andreas Eberharter, from Portugal and Austria respectively, are the founders of Claan, a media and design studio based in Porto, Portugal.