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...Instead of disappointment, I had 10 days of transcendental wonder amidst the salt flats in the Andes and wept over the beauty of the flamingos in the blood-red Laguna Colorada....
...“Petro might say his policies are A, B and C but that doesn’t mean he can deliver on them,” says Luis Fernando Mejía, director of economic think-tank Fedesarrollo....
...The $3.2m estate offers 13 bedrooms split across three cabins, which have views of the Andes and Puyehue volcano....
...Letter in response to this article: I’ve got the kit and I’m looking forward to joining Fabio’s ‘very elitist’ club / From C S Jamais, Amsterdam, The Netherlands...
...“Grizzly bear hunting was worth C$2m a year to the BC economy,” Julius told me. “Whereas bear-watching was worth C$30m and rising....
...I’ve never been to South America, but I had some amazing wine sent to me recently from Cheval des Andes and it made me want to visit and check out the Inca sites....
...The deal comes after Barrick last month cancelled further work on its ambitious Pascua-Lama gold project that straddles the border or Chile and Argentina in the Andes mountains....
...“He’s not a career politician or a policy guy,” says Sandra Borda, an associate professor of political science at Los Andes university in Bogotá. “He was nobody before this [the campaign].”...
...He also speaks highly of drugs he has taken for hepatitis C. “You have to be as obsessive about wellness as you are about sickness,” he says like a true believer....
...It is based at the Aspen Institute in Washington, D.C., and has regional chapters across the globe. Back to beyondbrics...
...Eduardo Behrentz, dean of engineering at the University of los Andes, calculates that the cost of repairing Bogotá’s road network is between $2.5bn and $3bn. “It’s a vicious circle....
...The self-absorbed upper classes live in the north in red-brick apartment blocks that rise up the flanks of the Andes....
...In particular, Mr Thornton will have noted Barrick’s problems at its now shelved Pascua-Lama project, straddling Argentina and Chile in the Andes, where the company struggled to maintain support....
...“Sport is an undeniable source of optimism, but it is short-term optimism, it is not something structural,” explains Jorge Tovar, professor of economics at the University of Los Andes in Bogotá, who also...
...According to Daniel Mejía, an economist who heads the Centre for the Study of Security and Drugs at the University of Los Andes in Bogotá, the cocaine business represents between 1 and 2 per cent of Colombia...
...“The election result highlights how divisive, but also how distant, the issue of peace is for many Colombians,” said Laura Wills, professor of political science at the University of Los Andes in Bogotá....
...politics, regional politics, businessmen, judges, farmers and guerrillas, all of whom fight their corners,” notes Carlos Caballero, a former mines and energy minister who lectures at the University of Los Andes...
...Ana María Otero, a historian with the University of Los Andes in Bogotá, believes the feud between Mr Santos and Mr Uribe “is basically a cat fight over conflicting visions of Colombia’s future....
...Surrounded by the Andes mountains, the city sits 8,612ft above sea level, affording many unobstructed mountain views and relatively consistent temperatures throughout the year....
...According to Daniel Mejía, an economist who heads the Centre for the Study of Security and Drugs at the University of Los Andes in Bogotá, the cocaine business has shrunk in the past five years but drug-trafficking...
...It said on Thursday that it was abandoning all but essential maintenance work at its Pascua-Lama site in the Andes which straddles the Chile-Argentina border....
...Canada-based company became the latest goldminer to announce a big writedown on the value of its projects as it revealed an $8.7bn post-tax charge, mainly related to its delayed Pascua-Lama project in the Andes...
...It has just gone 8am on a typical slate-grey morning and a small group of first-year students at Los Andes university are discussing the themes that most concern them....
...Banks and retailers have discovered what it means to give away cards,” says Marc Hofstetter, a University of Los Andes economist. “In terms of foreign retailers I’d say we are only missing a Walmart.”...
...Pascua Lama, 5,000 metres up in the Andes straddling Chile and Argentina, has been blighted by cost overruns and environmental disputes....
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