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ine is a big deal in Chile. WLast week, the nation's President, Sebastian Pinera, followed his visits to Downing Street and Buckingham Palace with an appearance at the Vintners Hall in London, where he thanked the great and good of the British wine trade for their enthusiastic support.
CHILE, October 1813. As dawn broke across the mist-shrouded river banks, the royalists launched their surprise attack. Nearly 20 republicans were killed in the opening minutes. Hundreds more, including the republican commander, Jose Carrera, took to their horses and fled, abandoning the artillery to the enemy. The battle of El Roble looked certain to be a tremendous victory for the royalists, who sought to reassert Spanish control over the troublesome Latin American colony.
TWO Welsh clergymen yesterday received the highest honour Chile can bestow on foreigners for their part in returning an historic set of church bells to the South American country. The so-called Bells of Santiago survived a devastating fire in Chile which killed 2,500 people almost 150 years ago and were kept in All Saints Church in Oystermouth, Mumbles, Swansea, until last year, when they were returned.
THE San Jose copper mine near Copiapo, where 33 men have been trapped for 25 days, lies in Chile's Atacama desert, the driest place on earth. There are only four trees on the site where relatives have built a makeshift camp and where it is hoped the men will be raised to the surface around Christmas time. By then it will be the Chilean summer when, even though the earth looks scorched, the thermometer rarely rises above 30[degrees]C - about as hot as it was yesterday 700 metres underground where the miners remained trapped in a large but precarious shelter. Rescue workers this weekend began drilling a vertical shaft around two feet in diameter to evacuate the miners one by one by means of a pulley, but the task, when it finally gets under way in about four months' time, will be a slow a...
I f there is such a place as Paradise in the wine world, it must be Chile. The vineyards lie between two of the planet's great physical features, the Andes and the Pacific. The climate is glorious - irrigation from sun-melted mountainpeak snow compensates for the scant rainfall - and in the wine regions the landscape is verdant, rolling and lush; it teems with exotic wildlife. But a week ago today, this Eden was devastated by a powerful earthquake, killing hundreds of people and leaving more than a million injured or homeless. Although the wine-producing area of Chile covers the tiniest fraction of the nation, the epicentre of the quake has struck at the very heart of the country's longest- established vineyard region, the Maule Valley. It has flattened the historic town of Curico, and ...
WHILE images of Chilean miners returning from deep in the earth have been beamed around the world, today I'm as far from those pictures as it's possible to get. Standing at the summit of Toco volcano, 5,625 metres above sea level, images of famous climbers Sir Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay race through my mind, and while Toco is no Everest (8,848m), I do feel I've just climbed the highest mountain in the world. Despite the elation, my head is pounding and my lungs scream for oxygen. On high altitude hiking in Chile, the oxygen-depleted atmosphere makes you feel you have the worst hangover ever, combined with a touch of flu.
TWO clergyman will receive one of Chile's highest honours when the country's ambassador visits a Swansea church next week. Canon Keith Evans, of All Saints' Church in Oystermouth, and Bishop John Davies will receive the Order of Bernardo O'Higgins from the country's ambassador to the UK, Tomas Muller Sproat.
THINGS took a turn for the better in Chile when the U2's 360 degrees tour rolled into town. Fans travelled for miles to see - and surround their heroes - as the band wowed fans at the Nacional stadium, in the country's capital, Santiago, last night.
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