EDGAR'S BLOG

The south of Chile is a magic place if you know how meet it. I learned this in my 2015 summer holidays, when with a group of four school friends bored of our "Santiaguino" lifestyle we decided to travel to the big island of Chiloé. We saved money during the second semester of that year and got camping articles with friends, the result was a wonderful trip. Our adventure began at the Llanquihue Lake, where we slept about a few days in the house of a friend in Puerto Varas, a beautiful and quite village with view to the blue lake at the foot of enormous volcanoes. There we passed the most relaxed days, walking around the city and sharing time with my friends.  After this relaxing time we began to meet a lot of places of the "Región de Los Lagos" till arrive to our objective: Chiloé. In those times we had a fascination with this island, specifically because his culture and mysticism, all the time our north was found a "brujo" (sorcerer) that could r...

Community radio In Chile if you ask something what is his favorite radio, probably he ask you “Cooperativa”, “AND” or “Biobío” for the journalistic work and “Rock and Pop” or “40 principales” for the music, maybe other depending on the interest of the listener, but in most cases, perhaps in all cases, the replies will be stations of the FM dial or, in very few persons, of the AM dial. This media are important companies that make a fantastic work, in fact personally I like them a lot, but there is something that worries me a lot: almost of this radio stations are controlled by gigantic empires of communication or by businessmen that have interests with politic parties.  All of my life I thought that the entire radio world is contaminated by the business and the partisan politics but when I began to study journalism I discovered the community radios. This is a type of mass media that have interest in development the needs and discussions of the communities, giving very littl...