Where Are the Tourists?
Tourism in the Andes requires social change and infrastructure, which some mountain communities don't have.
Tourism in the Andes requires social change and infrastructure, which some mountain communities don't have.
Patagonia, Chile, captures a piece of every explorer's heart, but for those who live there life is hard. Conservation has left very few resources available for the local way of life to continue.
The most controversial conservationists on the continent, Doug and Kristine Tompkins, have dedicated their lives and capital to write the future for Patagonia, but their changes are not welcome.
Local residents in Cochrane refuse to celebrate Chile's recent victory over mega-dam development. The rising price of energy and hazardous air conditions have prolonged the debate.
Juan Pablo Garnham interviews brothers Jeff Kelly Lowenstein and Jon Lowenstein about their impressions of Chile's past, present and future.
A generation of people who grew during and after the Pinochet dictatorship are working to change Chile.
Angela Bachelet Jeria has borne witness to her own and the nation's suffering for nearly 40 years.
A cab ride to meet a source before Election Day in Chile led to a primer on soccer and politics courtesy of driver Claudio Contreras.
Pamela Betancur arrived in Santiago from southern Chile in 1999 hoping to realize her dreams of better opportunity.
Hernan Gutierrez does not have to imagine the atrocities that took place after the Pinochet coup in Chile. He witnessed them.
Forty years after the Pinochet coup, memories of that dark period sit uncomfortably within many Chileans. The country has begun to confront its past more openly, but many simply want to move forward.
“Many Chilean youth are committed to helping the country continue its arduous transition from a dictatorship to a vibrant democracy,” Jeff Kelly Lowenstein reports.