Magellanes (Chile)

Cruising Tierra

At Cape Horn, Mother Nature has misplaced her maternal instinct. It was the great Portuguese voyager, Ferdinand Magellan, who named this Tierra del Fuego, "Land of Fire", after the night fires he saw on the hillsides, lit by...

Chilean right wing makes gains in local elections

Santiago - Chilean conservatives won a majority of mayoral seats in weekend elections, narrowly beating the ruling centre-left coalition for the first time since 1990. Right-wing mayoral candidates won in the key municipalities...