Read more Chile stories on Newserhttp://www.newser.com/taggrid/3396/chile.html2009 - Newseren-usNewser Feed GeneratorTue, 24 Nov 2009 12:26:37 CSThttp://www.newser.com/story/73679/east-germanys-first-lady-unrepentant.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagThe wife of former East German dictator Erich Honecker loses no sleep over the policies she and her husband championed, including one that forcibly placed children of dissidents into other families or foster homes. “We lived good lives in our GDR,” Margot Honecker tells the Independent . More than 2,000...http://www.newser.com/story/73679/east-germanys-first-lady-unrepentant.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagTue, 10 Nov 2009 20:43:52 CSThttp://www.newser.com/story/71820/the-maid-cleans-up-with-critics.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagSundance darling The Maid, directed by Sebastián Silva, is a Chilean black comedy focusing on a longtime employee’s struggles with her employers and a succession of new maids. Critics say it’s an absorbing character study with an impressive lead performance: “There’s more to Raquel and her world than appearances, and...http://www.newser.com/story/71820/the-maid-cleans-up-with-critics.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagFri, 16 Oct 2009 13:42:31 CDThttp://www.newser.com/story/61867/argentine-glacier-grows-despite-global-warming.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagArgentina's Perito Moreno glacier is one of only a few ice fields worldwide that have withstood rising global temperatures. Nourished by Andean snowmelt, the glacier constantly grows even as it spawns icebergs the size of apartment buildings into a frigid lake, maintaining a nearly perfect equilibrium since measurements began more...http://www.newser.com/story/61867/argentine-glacier-grows-despite-global-warming.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagSun, 14 Jun 2009 19:35:00 CDThttp://www.newser.com/story/60201/chiles-thrift-pays-off-as-downturn-bites-elsewhere.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagChile's thrifty finance minister is starting to look like a prophet as spendthrift, "grasshopper" economies founder around him, the Wall Street Journal reports. Andres Velasco's tight grip on the country's copper revenue during the commodities boom made him and his party deeply unpopular at the time, but the country now...http://www.newser.com/story/60201/chiles-thrift-pays-off-as-downturn-bites-elsewhere.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagWed, 27 May 2009 8:59:18 CDThttp://www.newser.com/story/56800/search-for-earths-twin-finds-similar-sized-planet.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagAstronomers in Chile looking for an Earth-like planet have discovered the closest one in size yet, the BBC reports. Don’t get your hopes up: Though Gliese 581 e, which lies outside our solar system, is just twice as large as Earth, it travels far too close to its sun to...http://www.newser.com/story/56800/search-for-earths-twin-finds-similar-sized-planet.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagTue, 21 Apr 2009 17:36:46 CDThttp://www.newser.com/story/45001/madonna-offends-god-says-cardinal-at-dictator-mass.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagMadonna's stage performance is a "stain" on humanity and an "offense to God," declared a controversial Chilean cardinal who enjoyed close ties to the late military dictator General Augusto Pinochet. Cardinal Jorge Medina condemned Madonna from the pulpit during a mass for Pinochet, Reuters reports. The singer is in Santiago...http://www.newser.com/story/45001/madonna-offends-god-says-cardinal-at-dictator-mass.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagThu, 11 Dec 2008 3:53:01 CSThttp://www.newser.com/story/42246/checklist-for-malawi-trip-passport-ticket-a-rod.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagMadonna has invited Alex Rodriguez to join her on her next trip to Malawi, where she's building a "kabbalah-enlightened" school, reports the Daily News . The Yankee slugger attended the aging superstar's concert in LA last week and is also considering tagging along when her tour heads to Brazil, Chile, and...http://www.newser.com/story/42246/checklist-for-malawi-trip-passport-ticket-a-rod.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagMon, 10 Nov 2008 9:31:30 CSThttp://www.newser.com/story/42057/haiti-school-collapse-kills-at-least-30.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagAt least 30 people, many possibly children, died in Haiti today when a school building collapsed, AP reports. The school, in a village in the hills above Port-au-Prince, experienced a partial collapse in 2000. Before today, the building was under construction, and the town’s mayor said structural problems, not recent...http://www.newser.com/story/42057/haiti-school-collapse-kills-at-least-30.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagFri, 07 Nov 2008 16:21:20 CSThttp://www.newser.com/story/37342/chiles-frisky-teens-kiss-off-conservative-ways-of-old.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagChile's teenagers are going through a sexual rebellion unlike anything the once straight-laced Catholic country has ever seen before, the New York Times reports. Now parents and educators, who themselves grew up under the repressive Pinochet regime, are worried that sex education isn't keeping up with promiscuity fueled in part...http://www.newser.com/story/37342/chiles-frisky-teens-kiss-off-conservative-ways-of-old.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagSat, 13 Sep 2008 11:25:32 CDT