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Some Chilean diplomats got caught for issuing over 200 fake student visas in Nepal and India, $7,000-8,000 per visa. Fiscalía formalizará a dos diplomáticos chilenos por tráfico de migrantes https://www.biobiochile.cl/noticias/nacional/chile/2018/12/16/fiscalia-formalizara-a-dos-diplomaticos-chileno...

Transferwise now allows to receive up to 5 millions CLP in one transfer and there are no monthly limits as far as I can see. But there's still no option to send money from Chile, only Brazil is available in LatAm.

One reporter from russian state TV was too stupid to recognize parody, and took it as real. If you are doing heavy-handed media manipulation, you have to hire stupid reporters. Or they did it on purpose because while a small group of people will ridicule this on the Internet, the average TV viewer ...

The term for this is " Potemkin village ", it's an old and significant part of Russian management culture named after count Potemkin from the 18th century who was building fake villages to impress the Empress. Here's a perfect example from yesterday: " 'Hi-tech robot' at Russia forum turns out to b...

when you walk around moscow, then take a little ride even just slightly out side of moscow, you immidetly realize the whole economy is smoke and mirrors show. The term for this is " Potemkin village ", it's an old and significant part of Russian management culture named after count Potemkin from th...

A similar myth is widespread in Asia;
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fan_death

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Thu Dec 06, 2018 1:58 am

NZ farmers were getting paid more than Chilean farmers why would they send it here to get 700 pesos a litre, after all that cost.

Yes, this was the point she also mentioned: it's cheaper to haul milk powder across the ocean because NZ farms have much higher productivity.

Well, now Uber drivers are going on strike, like there's somebody to hear them.

As usual, Silicon Valley's "market disruption" ends up as a reminder why regulations were created in the first place.

Quillayes is not NZ owned, what do you mean uses Powder from NZ? , are you referring to the propaganda put out by Colun which claimed Soprole (which is NZ owned) was using powdered milk from NZ for their milk? Which was a lie that Colun use to their advantage after rumors on the internet claimed th...

I just finished the "Los dueños de Chile" overview by CIPER. Además, el estudio de los académicos de la Universidad de Chile revela que la participación del 1% más rico del país es de 30,5% del ingreso total. El 0,1% (la milésima parte) se lleva el 17,6%, y el 0,01% (la diezmilésima fracción de los ...

In some ways it is refreshing to see people actually happy with their president Oh yes, for all the "he's literally Trump" scaremongering from the left during the presidential race, he's actually not even truly right-wing and keeps showing his Christian Democratic roots with all the social programs...

Cuenta Ahorros (savings) in BE is easy but withdrawals are pricey (though it’s free to transfer money to CuentaRUT). We also accepted a wire to it without a problem.