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Horseback riding - the perfect way to explore Argentina and Chile from the Atacama to Patagonia

 Atacama Desert in Chile is the driest place in the world. The average annual rainfall is zero. But maybe once in five years, sometimes longer, it does rain - and then something like a miracle occurs. "It was like stepping into paradise," wrote a British visitor, Gill Ross, who saw what the rains of 1988 brought to the Atacama. She went on to describe "beautiful delicate flowers of brilliant colors that grow in huge sweeps as if God had scattered handfuls of seeds in the wind". The following year, another of the world's poorest places flowers: dried up Lake Eyre in central Australia, where summer temperatures can reach 54 degrees Celsius (130 degrees Fahrenheit). Torrential rain in April and May filled the lake, and the gloomy surrounding desert burst into color as plants sprang seemingly from nowhere and blossomed. The flowers grow from the millions of seeds that are stuck in the sand since the time in the desert last flowering. How are they with the extraordinarily harsh conditions that greet them? The answer lies in the speed with which the plants go through their life cycle, and the nature of their seeds. Plants in more temperate climates can take months to mature, flower and produce seeds, these desert "Ephemeral" is only two weeks. The seeds did not germinate if they are saturated with water, which will happen only after particularly heavy rain. Or else they stay inside the hard shell to protect them from drought as long as 25 years. When the rains come, they bring color to the desert just a few short weeks. Seeds of certain plants in this unique arid regions react to different amounts of water, so make sure they do not all germinate at once: some are always held in reserve for the future. And almost all these seemingly magical plant has large, bright flowers that attract so many pollinating insects as possible. Short-lived as they are, they are therefore a good chance of being fertilized and gives rise to another generation.

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A perspective from Chile on the American economy

Just like the rest of the world, in South America has certainly not immune to the U.S. and global economic downturn. Chile is geographically protected by the Andes to the east, the Pacific Ocean in the west depends on the vast Atacama Desert in the north and the icy waters off the coast of Antarctica in the south, but it is a country very attached to the global economy and strong on International Trade in North America, the European Union, Asia and its neighbors in South America, especially for its prime exports - copper, wood pulp and agricultural products.I am a U.S. citizen living in Chile. As a freelance consultant, I have personally seen my business drop during this downturn. Large international mining and engineering companies are cutting back or put their investment plans on ice has a direct impact on their demand for services. I have friends who are displaced, one of them a recent college graduate looking forward to a promising future with an international engineering and consulting firm that was an innocent victim of the economic timing. Another is a professional with a long and distinguished career, hoping to strengthen his savings for a few years to have for the decline in the value of his retirement account, based on a privatized system in workers compensation Chile.Chilean a safety net based on the labor law that provides for the payment of compensation where jobs will be eliminated due to downsizing or reorganization of a company. You will receive a basic monthly salary for each year of employment, usually up to a maximum of 11 years. This will not free employees who are forced to search for multiple revenue sources. Similar to mining companies in search of water for their operations in the Atacama desert, you can not find an oil well, but if you can put together enough trickles by.The activity of the ubiquitous construction cranes in Santiago received has become much calmer, which the loss of construction jobs. And people are noticeably tighten belts, especially those that recession, which affected deeply remind this country in the early 80s. The fall in prices for copper, Chile's salary as is known, from a peak of about $ 4 per pound in July 2008, at about $ 1.50 per pound hit the country particularly hard, and clearly shows the decline in demand from important trading partner Chile's partners, including China. But Chile is a resilient economy and people are known for their return, whether by natural disasters such as earthquakes, floods and volcanic eruptions and economic crises. Chile has a solid institutional basis, with a strong legal framework and has maintained a conservative fiscal policy, building up reserves during the boom in commodity prices. President Michelle Bachelet was through a $ 4000000000 push economic stimulus package, has the largest in the history of Chile to create 100,000 jobs and the creation of conditions for the constant target of a stellar economic performer growth.Chile among South American countries and even the world in general since many years. Despite a planned apartment or negative growth in the first months of the year, economists expect a slight 1.2% in 2009, a total expansion. Chileans are a hardy people, and they come back strong.

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