Go boho in Santiago: Why Chile’s arty neighbourhood is worth a visit

inews, June 2019

 
 
 

The artistic and multicultural life of its Barrio Yungay district defies the dull image of Chile’s capital city. Here, a flowering grassroots arts scene is blasting Santiago’s bland image out the water, placing it on par with the likes of Palermo in Buenos Aires – only without the hordes and with much friendlier price tags

 

What Mexicans
are drinking

1843 Magazine

 

Once rarely found outside the Tzotzil’s homeland, pox, a liquor made from corn, spring water and sugar cane, is now served at bars in Mexico City, Mérida and across the country

 
 
 

In the south of Chile, trees pre-date
the Dinosaurs

Wilderness Archive, 2019

 
 
 

On the hillside of Bosque Pehuén, a forest in the south of Chile, mighty Araucaria trees stand to attention like fingers, shooting their spiky, time-worn branches into the blue. These Araucaria have existed here for seven centuries, living fossils of the Mesozoic era and symbol of Araucanía, in the south of Chile

 

Meet Macarena Aguilar Izquierdo, the Chilean designer making waves in Santiago’s culinary scene

Art She Says, 2018

 
 
 
 

I spoke to the Santiago-based architect and former design advisor to Chile’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs about running an all-women design studio, confidence and going it alone