Stories: Chile

Stories connected to Chile.

• He asked to be left ashore. The wait lasted years.Alexander Selkirk was marooned on an uninhabited Pacific island, initially at his own request. His isolation…
• To return to Chile in secret, he changed his appearance.Chilean politician Luis Corvalán was detained after the 1973 coup and freed in a 1976 prisoner exchange. In t…
• The Andes’ green mounds are flowering plants, not mossYareta forms low, rounded green cushions in the high Andes. It may resemble a mound of moss, but it is a flow…
• A rocky-looking exterior hides a filter feederPiure, Pyura chilensis, is a tunicate found along Chilean and Peruvian shores. It resembles a mass of organs…