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Translation: Faces of Santiago, Chile

I am a huge fan of tango music, so I was super-lucky to see the Argentine tango orquestra Astillero perform live at the Teatro Nescafé de las Artes in Santiago on Sunday, May 29, their first-ever performance in Chile. Below is one of their compositions:

I am interrupting my series of Chilean blog posts to mark Memorial Day, a federal holiday in the USA to mourn and honor the men and women of the U.S. Armed Forces who died while serving their country. But what about civilian deaths? This headline from 2017 caught my attention (see below); full report here:

“More Americans killed by guns since 1968 than in all U.S. wars — combined“

Hola! I am attending a workshop on Adam Smith for young Latin American scholars, and my favorite paper by far was one on “The Meanings of the Word ‘Trade'” by Leonardo André Paes Müller. His paper brought back memories of my favorite paper at the Adam Smith conference in Madison, Wisconsin in 2021: Sarah Skwire’s paper “As If: Clueless about the Invisible Hand.” (See here and here.) Below are two slides from Paes Müller’s talk:

This Chilean band combines rock music with traditional Chilean folk songs. Their name “Los Bunkers” pays tribute to their musical idols: The Beatles, The Kinks, Los Jokers, and Los Sonnys. (For an overview of the Chilean rock scene, see here.)

I will be travelling “down under” to Santiago de Chile later today to attend a “Young Latin American Scholars Workshop on Adam Smith” (see here), so I will be blogging more sporadically, if at all, in the days ahead.