NEWS
By George F. Will | December 10, 1998
WASHINGTON -- The Spanish judge who wants Britain to extradite Gen. Augusto Pinochet, former dictator of Chile, for trial concerning human rights violations, is practicing what is called "justice without borders." However, borders are akin to fences, and good fences make good neighbors. If international law ignores fences, will nations be more neighborly?Prosecuting Pinochet might expand the "rule of law"; it certainly would involve ideological willfulness tarted up in the trappings of law. Pinochet was a nasty ruler who mandated torture, hostage-taking and murder -- probably including murder on Embassy Row in Washington.
TRAVEL
By Dan Schmidt and Dan Schmidt,Special to the Sun | April 11, 1999
A MEMORABLE PLACEAt the end of a year's assignment in Chile, my wife and I received from friends a weekend stay at La Hosteria de la Colina, a wonderful B & B in Villarrica. While Sue and I had traveled a few hours north and east of Santiago, we had never been to the south.Many who come to live and work in Chile from overseas manage to head south to camp or tour at some point, and so we had heard a great deal about this area. Some of our Chilean friends made treks there as well. That made us eager for the experience, and we welcomed this gift with real delight.
NEWS
By Irene Gunther | December 22, 1990
New York.LAST YEAR I spent Christmas in Chile. I chose that time of year to go and visit my son partly to get away from winter in New York but mostly to escape the holiday season. In Chile I would be a tourist, an onlooker, not expected to get into the holiday spirit and not having to wonder how to spend Christmas Day.My discomfort over Christmas goes back to my English childhood. In that time and place, if you were Jewish, you simply didn't celebrate Christmas. Nor was there any attempt to raise Hanukkah to almost equal status -- and in so doing distort that lovely but small holiday into something it was never meant to be. I vividly remember going to get my hair cut one late-December day and being asked by the hairdresser what I had got for Christmas.
TRAVEL
By Douglas Bruns and Douglas Bruns,Special to the Sun | July 16, 2000
A MEMORABLE PLACE It was January, and I was thinking forward to spring and fishing my favorite trout stream. Winter for a fisherman is a time of restlessness. But it was not winter everywhere, and it occurred to me that the rivers in the Southern Hemisphere were running strong and fast, and the trout were probably rising. Within 30 days I was on the water in Southern Chile. The western region of Patagonia, about three hours south of Santiago by air, has become a draw for fisherman the world over.
NEWS
By New York Times News Service | December 12, 1994
MIAMI -- President Clinton and the leaders of Canada and Mexico said yesterday that they had agreed to admit Chile into the North American Free Trade Agreement, a move that clearly puts pressure on the other nations of South and Central America to speed up the opening of their markets if they want expanded trade with the United States.The announcement came at the conclusion of a harmonious three-day summit meeting.Mr. Clinton and 33 other leaders from the Western Hemisphere -- only Cuba was excluded -- agreed to conclude a treaty within a HTC decade to create a free-trade zone for the Americas.
NEWS
By NEW YORK TIMES NEWS SERVICE | January 4, 2006
SANTIAGO, Chile -- The government of Peru formally requested yesterday that Chile extradite former President Alberto Fujimori, who ruled Peru during the 1990s and has been held in custody here ever since he unexpectedly arrived two months ago from exile in Japan. Fujimori, 67, is wanted in Peru on more than a dozen counts of corruption and violating human rights. The accusations range from bearing the responsibility for death squad killings and unauthorized wiretaps to paying bribes and siphoning money from government ministries.