This is weird to me cause the Chile I saw was very mixed race. I didn’t go to Santiago when I was in Chile but I saw the North, the lakes and Magallanes regions and I didn’t see any Germans. Most people looked mixed. Maybe the power is massed in the centre of the country.
That being said with what’s going on in northern Chile now, you can see why the right would be so popular. Totally overrun by immigrants and crime, probably the roughest place I’ve been in the Spanish speaking conosur, on par with Brazil but no where near as bad.
Until I traveled there, I had no idea there was a strong German presence in South America. From southern Brazil to southern Chile, I repeatedly came across German colonías, colonies, towns which were originally German but now quite mixed, often with some remnant German culture.
The most visibly German places I saw, with plenty of unmixed Aryans, were in the south of the Southern Cone: Bariloche, Valdivia, Puerto Varas. It seemed like the Nazi refugees and the refugees from the Nazis all got along.
One of my best friends in BsAs was an old multilingual Aryan-looking Croat who worked, maybe flew, for Aerolineas Argentines, retired, ran a corner store in barrio San Telmo. He never would talk about his war years. I suspect they were interestung.
If you're someone who sees truth-telling, memory, and accountability as non-negotiables, then Kast is radioactive, Kaiser is unstable, and Matthei is unrepentantly bland. Tohá is the only one who seems to have both a spine and a conscience. Whether that's enough for your standards depends on how allergic you are to compromise. She did go along with Boric's biased anti-Israel policies. So, to me, that rules her out (not that I get a vote, anyway).
Wonderful. All very Tintin and the Picaros. Where’s General Tapioca when you need him?
He's probably marrying the daughter of a German factory owner.
This is weird to me cause the Chile I saw was very mixed race. I didn’t go to Santiago when I was in Chile but I saw the North, the lakes and Magallanes regions and I didn’t see any Germans. Most people looked mixed. Maybe the power is massed in the centre of the country.
That being said with what’s going on in northern Chile now, you can see why the right would be so popular. Totally overrun by immigrants and crime, probably the roughest place I’ve been in the Spanish speaking conosur, on par with Brazil but no where near as bad.
I think it’s like Colombia and Venezuela in that it’s mostly mestizo but with a large white minority. Except without blacks.
Until I traveled there, I had no idea there was a strong German presence in South America. From southern Brazil to southern Chile, I repeatedly came across German colonías, colonies, towns which were originally German but now quite mixed, often with some remnant German culture.
The most visibly German places I saw, with plenty of unmixed Aryans, were in the south of the Southern Cone: Bariloche, Valdivia, Puerto Varas. It seemed like the Nazi refugees and the refugees from the Nazis all got along.
One of my best friends in BsAs was an old multilingual Aryan-looking Croat who worked, maybe flew, for Aerolineas Argentines, retired, ran a corner store in barrio San Telmo. He never would talk about his war years. I suspect they were interestung.
If you're someone who sees truth-telling, memory, and accountability as non-negotiables, then Kast is radioactive, Kaiser is unstable, and Matthei is unrepentantly bland. Tohá is the only one who seems to have both a spine and a conscience. Whether that's enough for your standards depends on how allergic you are to compromise. She did go along with Boric's biased anti-Israel policies. So, to me, that rules her out (not that I get a vote, anyway).
Chilean's troops
How exactly is that "disconcerting". Sounds like someone's been fed too much boomer propoganda
Please clarify. I'm not sure what your underlying point is.