Brrr it's chile
Recently I was assigned to do a report on Chile using my brand-spanking-new chip-ahoy Spanish vocabulary (Span 101). Anyway...I have fallen in love with this country and am now determined to go there after we hit Cuba and Mozambique (screw Costa Rica...you've seen one tropical rainforest, you've seen em all). Having seen the pictures of Noah and Laura's recent trip just added more spice to the chile. Maybe I can take a shot at Pinochet, round him up and throw some bitter fruit his way (good read).
Check out this link for some incredible photos, mainly of Patagonia but some of LL Bean as well. Oh,and today is the 100th anniversary of Pablo Neruda's birth. Cheers.
Check out this link for some incredible photos, mainly of Patagonia but some of LL Bean as well. Oh,and today is the 100th anniversary of Pablo Neruda's birth. Cheers.
posted by Anonymous at 11:03 PM
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An interesting article on that commie bastard in the WaPo:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A37885-2004Jul8.html
An excerpt:
Neruda had become an ardent communist. Over the years he wrote a lot of sincerely felt, but otherwise weak, didactic poems denouncing Western imperialism. His strident praise for the Communist Party seems at best naive, and his admiration for Stalin, whom he never disavowed, can be hard to stomach. Such figures as Octavio Paz and Czeslaw Milosz broke with him over communism.
Oh, I must ask. Does anyone know if there is a connection between Chile and the Chile pepper and for that matter the red hot Chile peppers? As I pointed out to her, Steph's report entirely neglects this fundamental issue, one that an audience member will surely query.
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