Blog has slept for many weeks! In the meantime I holidayed on the intoxicating island of Mauritius. The sun shines, it's warm 24 hours a day, the water is perfect. When it rains it is just enough to keep everything green. We were at a Club Med and I sailed Hobie Cats, water-skid, played tennis, water polo and petananque all day. I needed to get back home to rest! We loved meeting friendly French people there. During our trip, Chile exhumed the body of Salvador Allende in an attempt to finally lay to rest the question about how he died in the military coup that brought Pinochet to power. In the 38 years since then, Chile has become the leading economy in Latin America and is surging again on the back of the buoyant copper price. But it is not just copper that drives Chile. It has significantly broadened its economic base since Allende's disastrous economic path. Pinochet was no saint, of course, with many brutally killed and tortured. The economy failed again in the early 1980s but the country continued to reform and is now a model for many emerging economies. See my article on Chile here http://www.businessday.co.za/articles/Content.aspx?id=144199. The QSL is from Radio Presidente Balmaceda, heard on 31mb in Cape Town in the 1960s.
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