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<\/a> built in classical style (you can hardly be the Paris of South America without aping Paris), and looking like the Parthenon from the outside, also houses the body of Jose San Martin, the liberator who in the Plaza sounded the call to revolution from the French on May 25, 1810.\u00a0\u00a0From what I understand, while he drove the Spanish out of Argentina, Chile and Peru (that\u2019s the Argentine version), victory was followed by civil war in Argentina (the 3 Spanish viceroys eventually divided into 8 countries) which lasted until the 1850s, when I believe San Martin\u2019s body was brought back from Paris.\u00a0\u00a0The tomb rather resembles Napoleon\u2019s.\u00a0\u00a0Not having participated in two world wars which altered the face of Europe and Asian pretenders to be Paris (e.g., Saigon and Shanghai), much of the Belle Epoque remains intact, which makes the wide boulevards and statues appropriately majestic for a capital city.\u00a0\u00a0I think I took more pictures today than in the previous week combined.<\/p>\nWe also went to one of the harbors, the Boca neighborhood, where the former rundown Italian area has been gentrified, painted with bright colors, and turned into a boutique\/craftsy art area, with handicrafts and local goods such as Havanna, a wonderful chocolate rich with caramel.<\/p>\n
The third area was Recoleta, another Belle Epoque resting place–so to speak; it\u2019s a cemetery whose mausoleums are way over the top,\u00a0 housing the remains of politicians, lawyers, doctors, and Evita, who is buried with her We had a great lesson in doing international business when we landed at the airport in Chile.\u00a0\u00a0One of our faculty was pulled aside and informed that there was a banana in his carry on, and fruits and vegetables were strictly forbidden entry in the country.\u00a0\u00a0Since the faculty member (\u201cNot me\u201d) had mistakenly checked the customs box that he was not importing anything, he spent \u00bd hour in a special room apologizing profusely, signing documents that would surface should he ever do the same again, saved primarily by the Florida International assistant who was Spanish speaking.\u00a0\u00a0A great lesson, as I tell my students, on the hazards of doing international business.<\/p>\n I\u2019m just glad it was \u201cnot me\u201d.<\/p>\n Tomorrow we get to sample the Andes, and I\u2019m really looking forward to it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" May 17, 2014 It\u2019s chilly in Chile, where we landed two hours ago, a country nestled between the Andes (crossing at night was not too exciting) and the Pacific.\u00a0\u00a0And it is chilly here–around 10 degrees Celsius for a high, and dry; our guide said average rainfall is 8\u00a0\u00a0inches, and a desert in the north is … Continue reading “It’s Chilly in Chile”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":36,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[56],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3035","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fdib-latin-america-2014"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/factrack\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3035","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/factrack\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/factrack\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/factrack\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/36"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/factrack\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3035"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/factrack\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3035\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8499,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/factrack\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3035\/revisions\/8499"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/factrack\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3035"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/factrack\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3035"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/factrack\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3035"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}<\/a>brother in an elaborate tomb that is the destination for most tourist traffic.\u00a0\u00a0Eva Peron–who died I believe in 1952–still exercises a magnetic charm in Argentine politics.\u00a0\u00a0The cemetery is the equivalent of the one in Paris that has the remains of Jim Morrison of the Doors–there\u2019s that Paris connection again– built when Argentina was one of the 10 richest countries in the world.<\/p>\n