America Football Cup

In the context of national protest, with teachers and students on strike against government reforms, notably "Teaching Profession" and higher education; it was held in Chile, the Copa America, being at oldest world championship. In which, for a month we can see how the protests of teachers and students was deflating.

What is my opinion about the cup?

 First, I think the glass generates among Chileans a nationalist and chauvinist, feeling for wanting to be better than the neighboring country.  And I say this because comments emerged in different places, where it is discriminated to be another Argentine, Bolivian or without understanding that all Latin American countries have a common origin in the looting carried out by the European (Spain and Portugal).

However, I share the empathy of triumph, when referring to the people, and that those who held that Chile won the cup, were the popular sectors of the various Chilean cities. And I was glad to see my neighbors happy; forgetting little daily problems such as lack of money, such as joy was short-lived triumph in the cup.

Copa America then we could say it has a double significance for me, on one hand represents the neglect of the institutions of the state towards education, using television to break up protests, and thus ended mobilizations teachers, bad shape that did not achieve their goals. On the other hand, it also meant a joy to the Chilean people, who held and still celebrates the victory achieved.

Flood in the desert: Tragedy in the north of Chile

The Atacama Desert is known as one of the driest in the world, then what happened?

US forecasters warned on March 21st that sighted a strange event in the second, third and fourth region of Chile. This situation would generate unusual rains in the desert, but no one expected a disaster occurs. The rain that much is expected, due to the severe drought that affected the country several years ago, came and swept away everything in its way.

So we face a difficult situation to understand, first, we notice meteorologists, and moreover, the population which was not informed that this meteorological event happen.
What I personally believe this, is that if it happened, that Onemi had warned the population, this alarm would not have generated major changes in the results because, as I said earlier, the tragedy was in the driest desert world!!
I also believe that Chile, as a centralized country, the news reached the authorities when a flood had swept cities like Chañaral, Copiapó and small towns like El Salado. Also, in the area of the desert, by normal weather conditions, is that cities are far away from each other, then the communication and connection between them was much more difficult, and if among these villages could not communicate, was even more difficult with other regions, such as the metropolitan region known it was raining, but not the magnitude of the event was known.

To conclude, I would say that Chile, we all know is a country where nature download their power, either through an earthquake or a volcano, are phenomena that Chileans are accustomed to live, the problem is that there are preventive policies throughout the country, and the work of geographers in this mainly lies in helping to develop awareness and policy primarily to prevent natural hazards.

My summer

Hi people!

My name is Matías, but you can call me Mato. I'm from Santiago de Chile.

 Now, i'm going to talk about my vacation:
First, i went to 5th region, and i stayed on Con Con. I also traveled to Valparaiso to see a friend, who gave me a tour through the hills of the city and also walked along the pier Baron
After being in Concon
Then in February, I traveled with a friend to a Camping in "Laguna Verde" was very cold at night. We bought food from the place and went down to the beach and the Camping was in a ravine.
A week later I went to Viña del Mar where an aunt of this city, and spent some time at home, we visited Viña del Mar, Quilpué and beaches in the area with my family.
At the end of my vacation, we went to a cabin in "El Quisco" for another week, the most entertaining activity was touring the area from San Antonio to Algarrobo. In San Antonio, we took a boat ride, which explained the importance of the port.
By week's end, we returned to Santiago and each to his routine. My dad at work, my mom yours, My brothers to school. And I go back to the university