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on Tue May 14 5:51 PM
John J. Healey: Spain
HUFFINGTON POST
The following article was published on May 11th, translated into Spanish, in Spain's daily newspaper El País Dedicated to Frederick Starr Wildman Jr. and to Pascal Tiger It began with an Iberia flight from New York to Málaga in the spring of...
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on Tue May 14 10:06 AM
How to Maximize Time and See the World
HUFFINGTON POST
Seeing the world can feel like an impossible feat, as it always seems that those who have time don't have money, and those who have money don't have time. Particularly in uncertain economic times, the priority of keeping a steady job tends to...
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on Mon May 13 5:16 PM
SANTIAGO, Chile: Chile denies deal to export fresh water to Qatar - Americas Wires
MIAMI HERALD
Chile denied on Monday that it will export fresh drinking water to Qatar after a recent report about shipments to the oil-rich but water-poor Persian Gulf country caused a public backlash.
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on Mon May 13 5:11 PM
Chile Denies Deal to Export Fresh Water to Qatar
NEW YORK TIMES
Chile denied on Monday that it will export fresh drinking water to Qatar after a recent report about shipments to the oil-rich but water-poor Persian Gulf country caused a public backlash.
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Eli Roth's 4 Rules For Scaring The Bejesus Out Of Us
FAST COMPANY | on Mon, May 13, 8:00 AM
The sadistic mastermind behind "Hostel," "Aftershock," and Netflix’s "Hemlock Grove" uses a hefty dose of reality to keep the fantasy frights fresh. The man who brought us torture porn hasn’t exactly softened, but Eli Roth can be...
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on Mon May 13 12:00 AM
on Wed May 8 3:57 PM
BBC News - Chile students resume protests for free education
BBC WORLD NEWS
Tens of thousands of students in Chile resume their protests for free education as riot police say they have been attacked with petrol bombs.
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on Mon May 6 5:38 PM
U.S. Military Deaths in Afghanistan
THE NEW YORK TIMES
The Department of Defense has identified 2,196 American service members who have died as a part of the Afghan war and related operations.
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on Mon May 6 5:30 PM
Venezuelan tools of protest? Pots, pans, and smartphone apps.
CHRISTIAN SCIENCE MONITOR
The popular Latin American protest tactic of banging pots and pans took on a new form in post-election Venezuela. Some opposition members protested Maduro's victory by downloading a noisy app.
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Torture survivor leads Chileans' battle for justice over Pinochet abuses | World news
THE GUARDIAN | on Mon, May 6, 1:24 PM
Inter-American court for human rights to give judgment on landmark compensation claim by 79-year-old Allende allyLeopoldo García Lucero carries a disfiguring zigzag scar above his left eye where a police officer lacerated his face with the stock...
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Healey: Spain", "story_summary" => "The following article was published on May 11th, translated into Spanish, in Spain's daily newspaper El País Dedicated to Frederick Starr Wildman Jr. and to Pascal Tiger It began with an Iberia flight from New York to Málaga in the spring of 1969. The Málaga airport consisted of a single building and a much smaller whitewashed structure with a red tiled roof and potted geraniums. The runway ended at a simple, two-lane highway. On the other side of the highway, unobstructed, were some fields, the beach and the Mediterranean. Everything else was cultivated fields, a village in the distance, and beyond the village a range of old, low mountains where a small, fallen pine tree that rested upon a boulder stood out clearly. During the next 30 years, whenever flying in or out of Málaga, as the airport and that part of the world changed so dramatically, I would always stop and make a point of locating that fallen pine. The house I lived in for the first four months was in this area. It was a finca called Buena Vista found along a narrow road where many rundown villas stood. The house had a round, unadorned fountain out front and a garden protected by Cyprus and lemon trees. The large wooden front door had a smaller door within it and in the patio out back where meals were taken grew a large pink oleander. Tenuous couples of mixed nationalities cohabitated with children, dogs and cats. The man who owned it was a renegade North American from New York and Connecticut who was a wine connoisseur, an amateur historian and brilliant conversationalist in English, Spanish and French. Separate from the house there was a dilapidated library filled with hundreds of old Penguin books on badly made shelves and a beautiful edition of the works of William H. Prescott. A frequent guest was a handsome Australian who upon his arrival to Spain wore tweed jackets and an ascot pretending to be an English Lord. By the time I met him he wore bangles and tight shirts and his hair was long. He was generally stoned, very smart, and known affectionately to all as 'Sir' Donald. Gerald Brenan, the famous hispanist who in his youth had brought Virginia Woolf and Lytton Strachey by mule to the village where he lived high in the mountains south of Granada, lived across the way and was a constant presence. I had just turned 19. I grew a beard. I read ferociously. Before moving north into France, I hiked up onto the mountain to find the fallen pine. I sat next to it tired and content, surrounded by rosemary and thyme, taking in the view of Málaga and the sea. Since then I have lived all over the country, in Madrid, in provincial capitals, in coastal villages and in a tiny mountain hamlet. My daughter was born in Granada. On the night it happened an elegant midget from a traveling circus staying at my hotel was drinking brandy in the lobby. He was wearing a three-piece suit, and assessed the situation immediately. He ran out into the street and stopped what little traffic there was so that I could make an illegal turn. My daughter was born in a beautiful 18th Century clinic run by nuns. The walls were painted ochre and yellow and orange trees grew in the patio. It was torn down some years later and replaced by an awful green and beige apartment building. After decades of being frustrated by how ignored Spain has been in the American press, where Europe always meant France and Italy, suddenly it is in the news virtually every day for the wrong reasons. Huge numbers of Spaniards are unemployed. Many families, unable to keep up with mortgages that were granted in too sly a manner when credit was cheap, are being driven out of their homes. The educational system remains dysfunctional and grossly underfunded. The healthcare system, once enviable, is a sinking ship. Problems long ingrained in the country's political system have been exacerbated by the financial crisis. Spaniards no longer know where to turn. This being said, my most recent stay here has been, as usual, a delight. Though the securely shut garbage bags I carefully place in the sidewalk container each evening are regularly rifled through during the night, by morning the streets are generally clean. The vast majority of Spaniards, those born here and those who have come from afar, continue to be honest, easy-going and articulate. They work hard, some of them very hard, but without the puritanical self-righteousness found ubiquitously in the United States. Some essential services continue to work, more or less. La nave va. Within the ups and downs all nations experience throughout time, certain characteristics remain constant. This is true even though as one grows older -- barring involvement in truly horrific circumstances -- one tends to idealize the past. Few foreigners have expressed this sentiment better with regard to Spain than Ernest Hemingway in the wonderful final chapter of his not so wonderful Death in the Afternoon. Keep in mind the following was written in 1932: '... Pamplona is changed, of course, but not as much as we are older. I found that if you took a drink that it got very much the same as it was always. I know things change now and I do not care ...Let it all change. We'll all be gone before it's changed too much and if no deluge comes when we are gone it still will rain in summer in the north and hawks will nest in the Cathedral at Santiago and in La Granja...We never will ride back from Toledo in the dark, washing the dust out with Fundador, nor will there be that week of what happened in the night in that July in Madrid....' Over the past 43 years I too have seen many lovely things 'go' from Spain that will never return. The fallen pine is no longer in its place. The outskirts of Málaga and the Costa del Sol, ruined by greed and building projects pumped with steroids are unrecognizable. But other things persist and draw me back: the scent of acacia on late summer nights in Madrid, darting swallows at dusk and dawn, jasmine vines in the shade of a patio in the hills above La Herradura, swimming in a crystalline cala near Tamariu when everyone else is at lunch, walking our dog along the vast empty beach of Corrubedo after the last stragglers have gone, the smell of burning oak and olive wood late on a winter's night in the Alpujarras, stopping in virtually any small village when driving from province to province, and ordering a café con leche, in a glass, in some quiet bar. The children I used to know who now have children of their own. I owe two things to Gerald Brenan. Thanks to him I first read Joyce's Ulysses in its first edition, published in Paris in 1922 by Sylvia Beach. The second was an offhand comment he made at dinner one evening I've never forgotten. 'You must remember,' he said, his eyes hard to see through thick lenses, ashes from his cigarette falling upon his shirt, 'Spain is a nation of 30 million kings.' Follow John J. 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We rationalize that you can't have it all, and when push comes to shove, better to survive than enjoy. Of course, there are the professions that integrate a fair amount of both--consulting, business development and private equity, to name a few. But, if you find yourself more limited to cubicle (or if your work travel is directed to the likes of Tuscaloosa or Cincinnati), is it still possible? I've spent the past six years developing my career and averaging between four to six international trips a year for pleasure--without breaking the bank or exceeding my paid-time-off limits. I can say, with certainty, yes. How? In this first article, I'll address maximizing time: Take all your vacation days: According to Expedia's annual vacation deprivation survey[1], after Asian countries, Americans are among the worst at depriving themselves of allotted vacation days. "Twelve days of paid-time-off? Thanks sir, but I'd prefer to take 10." Silly, right? Take advantage of all your days; that's why you negotiated them. Make time work for you: There are pockets of time a year when companies give you freebie days off. The obvious ones: holidays like Thanksgiving and Christmas, and the slightly less obvious ones, like the Fourth of July, Memorial Day and Labor Day. Barring family obligations or traditions, these pockets provide the best return-on-investment for time. Aside from this, too often, people discount shorter one-day holidays that still provide an added value--take President's Day, MLK or Pulaski Day (if you work for the City of Chicago). Taking four days of PTO during these periods still provide nine days net of vacation time. Consider your destination time zone: I currently live in Chicago, and as much as I love Asia and Europe, when it comes to traveling over an abridged time period (e.g. two days wrapped around each side of a weekend), it is much wiser to fly south. Why? Time zones are close. The time difference between Chicago, Central and South America is only a few hours apart in most cases; in Central, there is no difference. Therefore, my body does not need to adjust and shift to a seven-hour time change that can leave me sluggish for half of an already short trip.Overnight flights use time efficiently. Many flights to South American countries from Colombia to Chile to Argentina to Brazil have red-eyes that depart from Houston, Miami or Fort Lauderdale (trying to be One World and Star Alliance agnostic here) around midnight and land in the morning. I'm an easy one to consume a glass of wine and sleep on the plane. It's so simple: fall asleep in Houston; wake up in Rio.Know your commodity. Don't put money first when time should come first: A piece of travel advice I always give is to know your commodity[2]. For most, this is either time or money. Assuming employment is the default, time should generally be the priority commodity. Don't skimp on a $70 plane ride for a $20 bus in Tanzania just because the 10 hours of time you inherently "trade" can significantly impact what activities you can do. The bus ride may prevent you from going on safari for an extra day or keep you overnight in the capital city because you've missed the last ferry to Zanzibar. Actual cost is more than dollars. Do your research: Research is ultimately the key to success to both preventing stupid, time-costly mistakes and squeezing the most out of a day. Going to Patagonia in South American summer (peak season) means that rental cars may not be available for a few days when you book them on the fly, particularly if you are a silly American who can only drive automatic vehicles (me). An overnight bus from Santiago north to San Pedro de Atacama can save you the loss of a day in transit. Taking the time to understand infrastructure challenges and possibilities prior to taking a trip has the potential to save a precious day. Negotiate work flexibility: I personally believe that the age of the 9-5 is over. I can't remember the last time I actually worked from 9:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. Some of my best thinking happens in shower; I fall asleep with my laptop in bed mid-email; and sometimes the conversations and experiences I have abroad inextricably affect my passion for my job. Most people are afraid to ask about flexibility: Can I do some assignments while I'm not physically in the office? Can I work remotely on Fridays? I personally believe in a world of hyper-transparency, and being honest about your personal desires can help identify points of intersection between what you--and your company--want. Retention of good employees is, after all, a corporate priority. But you won't get anything until you ask. There are many ways to stretch time, both on utilizing vacation days and maximizing each day on the ground. It takes just a few insights to help make time work for you. Next up: stretching a budget. 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His left arm was broken in several places after being smashed with a rifle; he walks with a stick now and has never regained full feeling in his hand. Other injuries include cognitive problems due to being beaten on the head and damage to his spine."In the comisaria [police station] there were bags of concrete covered in blood," García recalled. "They wanted me to tell them where the [Allende supporting] senators were hiding. They said they would kill me but first they would bring my six-year-old daughter, stand her in front of the concrete bags, and shoot her."During the night policemen took it in turns to hit me repeatedly with a baton. The hearing in my right ear was damaged." After three days blindfolded and tied up in the police station, he was removed to the national stadium, where hundreds of opponents of the junta had been herded.The torture did not stop. He was suspended with weights on his legs, kicked in the testicles and burned with cigarettes. "From 9pm to 7am they would take us out into the cold grass in the centre of the pitch," he said. "They would call names out. People thought they were going to be released but when they went out through the black hole of the main door, they were shot. They called my name several times. I didn't trust them and stayed still."We could hear rifle fire from the direction of the tennis courts where the women were being held at around two or three in the morning. We would wonder how many people had been killed." Despite the executions, García said, he did not betray friends.Later he was moved to a series of concentration camps. Some, he says, like Chacabuco, were surrounded by high voltage electric fences with a charge strong enough to kill.In June 1975, García was among the first detainees expelled from Chile by General Augusto Pinochet's regime. Up to 200,000 people were deported. Many found refuge in the UK, Spain and Norway. García, his wife, Elena, now 82, and three daughters settled in south London.When Pinochet arrived in the UK for medical treatment in 1998, García joined the protests with other exiles demanding that genocide charges be brought against the ageing general. "They made a great mistake allowing Pinochet to leave the UK on health grounds. When he flew out he was in a wheelchair but when he touched down back in Chile, he ran out to greet the other generals. No more wheelchair."In 2002, with the help of Redress, García filed his claim for compensation with the inter-American commission, which vets applications to the court. His three daughters have married and live in Britain.Clara Sandoval, a barrister, law lecturer at Essex University and consultant with Redress, appeared before the inter-American court to represent Garcia in March. "Up until 2011," she said, "Chile did not initiate investigations into torture. So this is a fundamental case to test how a state has to respect victims of torture who have been exiled."Under the treaties Chile has signed, it has an obligation to investigate and punish torture. There have been no reparations for being sent into exile. Chile pays him a pension of £150 a month and has given him $8,000 (£5,000) as a special bonus."García's lawyers have submitted a claim of £110,000 for "moral damages". Sandoval said: "We have asked the state to investigate his torture. This case is not about money but about treating a victim fairly who has a right to reparations." She said they had asked for a written apology from the Chilean president, Sebastián Piñera.García has been identified as one of the country's 35,000 torture survivors by Chile's Valech commission, which is investigating human rights abuses. Its report, published in 2004, said the names of torturers should be kept secret for 50 years.At the hearing in Medellín, the Chilean ambassador, representing the country's now democratic government, said it had put together a programme of international justice. Chile had previously attempted to have the case struck out on the grounds that it related to crimes committed before 1990 when the country ratified the American convention on human rights.In its submission to the court, Chile said it has made adequate reparations to Pinochet-era victims of torture. By 2011, it had paid out $1.6bn (£1bn). Its compliance with its obligation to make reparations, it said, had been "exemplary".Because he was blindfolded for much of his ordeal, García has been unable to identify his torturers. "Most were in civilian clothes," he said. "Sons of a bitch. The world should know what happened," he said. "My life has been a burden since then to others. I have not been able to work. 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Its report, published in 2004, said the names of torturers should be kept secret for 50 years.At the hearing in Medellín, the Chilean ambassador, representing the country's now democratic government, said it had put together a programme of international justice. Chile had previously attempted to have the case struck out on the grounds that it related to crimes committed before 1990 when the country ratified the American convention on human rights.In its submission to the court, Chile said it has made adequate reparations to Pinochet-era victims of torture. By 2011, it had paid out $1.6bn (£1bn). Its compliance with its obligation to make reparations, it said, had been "exemplary".Because he was blindfolded for much of his ordeal, García has been unable to identify his torturers. "Most were in civilian clothes," he said. "Sons of a bitch. The world should know what happened," he said. "My life has been a burden since then to others. I have not been able to work. 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Healey: Spain", "story_summary" => "The following article was published on May 11th, translated into Spanish, in Spain's daily newspaper El País Dedicated to Frederick Starr Wildman Jr. and to Pascal Tiger It began with an Iberia flight from New York to Málaga in the spring of 1969. The Málaga airport consisted of a single building and a much smaller whitewashed structure with a red tiled roof and potted geraniums. The runway ended at a simple, two-lane highway. On the other side of the highway, unobstructed, were some fields, the beach and the Mediterranean. Everything else was cultivated fields, a village in the distance, and beyond the village a range of old, low mountains where a small, fallen pine tree that rested upon a boulder stood out clearly. During the next 30 years, whenever flying in or out of Málaga, as the airport and that part of the world changed so dramatically, I would always stop and make a point of locating that fallen pine. The house I lived in for the first four months was in this area. It was a finca called Buena Vista found along a narrow road where many rundown villas stood. The house had a round, unadorned fountain out front and a garden protected by Cyprus and lemon trees. The large wooden front door had a smaller door within it and in the patio out back where meals were taken grew a large pink oleander. Tenuous couples of mixed nationalities cohabitated with children, dogs and cats. The man who owned it was a renegade North American from New York and Connecticut who was a wine connoisseur, an amateur historian and brilliant conversationalist in English, Spanish and French. Separate from the house there was a dilapidated library filled with hundreds of old Penguin books on badly made shelves and a beautiful edition of the works of William H. Prescott. A frequent guest was a handsome Australian who upon his arrival to Spain wore tweed jackets and an ascot pretending to be an English Lord. By the time I met him he wore bangles and tight shirts and his hair was long. He was generally stoned, very smart, and known affectionately to all as 'Sir' Donald. Gerald Brenan, the famous hispanist who in his youth had brought Virginia Woolf and Lytton Strachey by mule to the village where he lived high in the mountains south of Granada, lived across the way and was a constant presence. I had just turned 19. I grew a beard. I read ferociously. Before moving north into France, I hiked up onto the mountain to find the fallen pine. I sat next to it tired and content, surrounded by rosemary and thyme, taking in the view of Málaga and the sea. Since then I have lived all over the country, in Madrid, in provincial capitals, in coastal villages and in a tiny mountain hamlet. My daughter was born in Granada. On the night it happened an elegant midget from a traveling circus staying at my hotel was drinking brandy in the lobby. He was wearing a three-piece suit, and assessed the situation immediately. He ran out into the street and stopped what little traffic there was so that I could make an illegal turn. My daughter was born in a beautiful 18th Century clinic run by nuns. The walls were painted ochre and yellow and orange trees grew in the patio. It was torn down some years later and replaced by an awful green and beige apartment building. After decades of being frustrated by how ignored Spain has been in the American press, where Europe always meant France and Italy, suddenly it is in the news virtually every day for the wrong reasons. Huge numbers of Spaniards are unemployed. Many families, unable to keep up with mortgages that were granted in too sly a manner when credit was cheap, are being driven out of their homes. The educational system remains dysfunctional and grossly underfunded. The healthcare system, once enviable, is a sinking ship. Problems long ingrained in the country's political system have been exacerbated by the financial crisis. Spaniards no longer know where to turn. This being said, my most recent stay here has been, as usual, a delight. Though the securely shut garbage bags I carefully place in the sidewalk container each evening are regularly rifled through during the night, by morning the streets are generally clean. The vast majority of Spaniards, those born here and those who have come from afar, continue to be honest, easy-going and articulate. They work hard, some of them very hard, but without the puritanical self-righteousness found ubiquitously in the United States. Some essential services continue to work, more or less. La nave va. Within the ups and downs all nations experience throughout time, certain characteristics remain constant. This is true even though as one grows older -- barring involvement in truly horrific circumstances -- one tends to idealize the past. Few foreigners have expressed this sentiment better with regard to Spain than Ernest Hemingway in the wonderful final chapter of his not so wonderful Death in the Afternoon. Keep in mind the following was written in 1932: '... Pamplona is changed, of course, but not as much as we are older. I found that if you took a drink that it got very much the same as it was always. I know things change now and I do not care ...Let it all change. We'll all be gone before it's changed too much and if no deluge comes when we are gone it still will rain in summer in the north and hawks will nest in the Cathedral at Santiago and in La Granja...We never will ride back from Toledo in the dark, washing the dust out with Fundador, nor will there be that week of what happened in the night in that July in Madrid....' Over the past 43 years I too have seen many lovely things 'go' from Spain that will never return. The fallen pine is no longer in its place. The outskirts of Málaga and the Costa del Sol, ruined by greed and building projects pumped with steroids are unrecognizable. But other things persist and draw me back: the scent of acacia on late summer nights in Madrid, darting swallows at dusk and dawn, jasmine vines in the shade of a patio in the hills above La Herradura, swimming in a crystalline cala near Tamariu when everyone else is at lunch, walking our dog along the vast empty beach of Corrubedo after the last stragglers have gone, the smell of burning oak and olive wood late on a winter's night in the Alpujarras, stopping in virtually any small village when driving from province to province, and ordering a café con leche, in a glass, in some quiet bar. The children I used to know who now have children of their own. I owe two things to Gerald Brenan. Thanks to him I first read Joyce's Ulysses in its first edition, published in Paris in 1922 by Sylvia Beach. The second was an offhand comment he made at dinner one evening I've never forgotten. 'You must remember,' he said, his eyes hard to see through thick lenses, ashes from his cigarette falling upon his shirt, 'Spain is a nation of 30 million kings.' Follow John J. 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We rationalize that you can't have it all, and when push comes to shove, better to survive than enjoy. Of course, there are the professions that integrate a fair amount of both--consulting, business development and private equity, to name a few. But, if you find yourself more limited to cubicle (or if your work travel is directed to the likes of Tuscaloosa or Cincinnati), is it still possible? I've spent the past six years developing my career and averaging between four to six international trips a year for pleasure--without breaking the bank or exceeding my paid-time-off limits. I can say, with certainty, yes. How? In this first article, I'll address maximizing time: Take all your vacation days: According to Expedia's annual vacation deprivation survey[1], after Asian countries, Americans are among the worst at depriving themselves of allotted vacation days. "Twelve days of paid-time-off? Thanks sir, but I'd prefer to take 10." Silly, right? Take advantage of all your days; that's why you negotiated them. Make time work for you: There are pockets of time a year when companies give you freebie days off. The obvious ones: holidays like Thanksgiving and Christmas, and the slightly less obvious ones, like the Fourth of July, Memorial Day and Labor Day. Barring family obligations or traditions, these pockets provide the best return-on-investment for time. Aside from this, too often, people discount shorter one-day holidays that still provide an added value--take President's Day, MLK or Pulaski Day (if you work for the City of Chicago). Taking four days of PTO during these periods still provide nine days net of vacation time. Consider your destination time zone: I currently live in Chicago, and as much as I love Asia and Europe, when it comes to traveling over an abridged time period (e.g. two days wrapped around each side of a weekend), it is much wiser to fly south. Why? Time zones are close. The time difference between Chicago, Central and South America is only a few hours apart in most cases; in Central, there is no difference. Therefore, my body does not need to adjust and shift to a seven-hour time change that can leave me sluggish for half of an already short trip.Overnight flights use time efficiently. Many flights to South American countries from Colombia to Chile to Argentina to Brazil have red-eyes that depart from Houston, Miami or Fort Lauderdale (trying to be One World and Star Alliance agnostic here) around midnight and land in the morning. I'm an easy one to consume a glass of wine and sleep on the plane. It's so simple: fall asleep in Houston; wake up in Rio.Know your commodity. Don't put money first when time should come first: A piece of travel advice I always give is to know your commodity[2]. For most, this is either time or money. Assuming employment is the default, time should generally be the priority commodity. Don't skimp on a $70 plane ride for a $20 bus in Tanzania just because the 10 hours of time you inherently "trade" can significantly impact what activities you can do. The bus ride may prevent you from going on safari for an extra day or keep you overnight in the capital city because you've missed the last ferry to Zanzibar. Actual cost is more than dollars. Do your research: Research is ultimately the key to success to both preventing stupid, time-costly mistakes and squeezing the most out of a day. Going to Patagonia in South American summer (peak season) means that rental cars may not be available for a few days when you book them on the fly, particularly if you are a silly American who can only drive automatic vehicles (me). An overnight bus from Santiago north to San Pedro de Atacama can save you the loss of a day in transit. Taking the time to understand infrastructure challenges and possibilities prior to taking a trip has the potential to save a precious day. Negotiate work flexibility: I personally believe that the age of the 9-5 is over. I can't remember the last time I actually worked from 9:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. Some of my best thinking happens in shower; I fall asleep with my laptop in bed mid-email; and sometimes the conversations and experiences I have abroad inextricably affect my passion for my job. Most people are afraid to ask about flexibility: Can I do some assignments while I'm not physically in the office? Can I work remotely on Fridays? I personally believe in a world of hyper-transparency, and being honest about your personal desires can help identify points of intersection between what you--and your company--want. Retention of good employees is, after all, a corporate priority. But you won't get anything until you ask. There are many ways to stretch time, both on utilizing vacation days and maximizing each day on the ground. It takes just a few insights to help make time work for you. Next up: stretching a budget. 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Some opposition members protested Maduro's victory by downloading a noisy app.", "story_date" => "2013-05-06 17:30:33", "source" => "CHRISTIAN SCIENCE MONITOR" ), array( "id" => "2013050600003617", "provider_id" => "27", "story_seo_url" => "http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2013/may/06/chile-americas", "story_title" => "Torture survivor leads Chileans' battle for justice over Pinochet abuses | World news", "story_summary" => "Inter-American court for human rights to give judgment on landmark compensation claim by 79-year-old Allende allyLeopoldo García Lucero carries a disfiguring zigzag scar above his left eye where a police officer lacerated his face with the stock of a machine gun. The injury was inflicted nearly 40 years ago in the blood-stained basement of a Santiago police station during the military coup in Chile that toppled President Salvador Allende.Next month, the 79-year-old torture survivor, most of whose teeth are missing from repeated beatings and interrogations, will discover whether his quest for justice, pursued for half his lifetime, has been rewarded.García's claim has become the lead case for those seeking compensation from Chile and a full investigation of past crimes. It could set international standards about what constitutes just reparation for those tortured and exiled from their homeland.The inter-American court of human rights, the continent's equivalent of the European court of human rights, is preparing to give final judgment on his lawsuit, which has taken 11 years to process.In March García, supported by Redress, the UK-based charity that helps torture survivors, appeared before the Americas' highest court – sitting in Medellín, Colombia – to argue his case before a bench of six judges.A member of the Socialist party who worked at Santiago's racecourse, near the presidential palace, García was close to Allende. The president gave him the nickname Filistoque, meant to convey that he was deft at reporting back on political meetings.García was seized on 16 September 1973, several days after the military uprising. A police van appeared and officers took him to a detention centre. His left arm was broken in several places after being smashed with a rifle; he walks with a stick now and has never regained full feeling in his hand. Other injuries include cognitive problems due to being beaten on the head and damage to his spine."In the comisaria [police station] there were bags of concrete covered in blood," García recalled. "They wanted me to tell them where the [Allende supporting] senators were hiding. They said they would kill me but first they would bring my six-year-old daughter, stand her in front of the concrete bags, and shoot her."During the night policemen took it in turns to hit me repeatedly with a baton. The hearing in my right ear was damaged." After three days blindfolded and tied up in the police station, he was removed to the national stadium, where hundreds of opponents of the junta had been herded.The torture did not stop. He was suspended with weights on his legs, kicked in the testicles and burned with cigarettes. "From 9pm to 7am they would take us out into the cold grass in the centre of the pitch," he said. "They would call names out. People thought they were going to be released but when they went out through the black hole of the main door, they were shot. They called my name several times. I didn't trust them and stayed still."We could hear rifle fire from the direction of the tennis courts where the women were being held at around two or three in the morning. We would wonder how many people had been killed." Despite the executions, García said, he did not betray friends.Later he was moved to a series of concentration camps. Some, he says, like Chacabuco, were surrounded by high voltage electric fences with a charge strong enough to kill.In June 1975, García was among the first detainees expelled from Chile by General Augusto Pinochet's regime. Up to 200,000 people were deported. Many found refuge in the UK, Spain and Norway. García, his wife, Elena, now 82, and three daughters settled in south London.When Pinochet arrived in the UK for medical treatment in 1998, García joined the protests with other exiles demanding that genocide charges be brought against the ageing general. "They made a great mistake allowing Pinochet to leave the UK on health grounds. When he flew out he was in a wheelchair but when he touched down back in Chile, he ran out to greet the other generals. No more wheelchair."In 2002, with the help of Redress, García filed his claim for compensation with the inter-American commission, which vets applications to the court. His three daughters have married and live in Britain.Clara Sandoval, a barrister, law lecturer at Essex University and consultant with Redress, appeared before the inter-American court to represent Garcia in March. "Up until 2011," she said, "Chile did not initiate investigations into torture. So this is a fundamental case to test how a state has to respect victims of torture who have been exiled."Under the treaties Chile has signed, it has an obligation to investigate and punish torture. There have been no reparations for being sent into exile. Chile pays him a pension of £150 a month and has given him $8,000 (£5,000) as a special bonus."García's lawyers have submitted a claim of £110,000 for "moral damages". Sandoval said: "We have asked the state to investigate his torture. This case is not about money but about treating a victim fairly who has a right to reparations." She said they had asked for a written apology from the Chilean president, Sebastián Piñera.García has been identified as one of the country's 35,000 torture survivors by Chile's Valech commission, which is investigating human rights abuses. Its report, published in 2004, said the names of torturers should be kept secret for 50 years.At the hearing in Medellín, the Chilean ambassador, representing the country's now democratic government, said it had put together a programme of international justice. Chile had previously attempted to have the case struck out on the grounds that it related to crimes committed before 1990 when the country ratified the American convention on human rights.In its submission to the court, Chile said it has made adequate reparations to Pinochet-era victims of torture. By 2011, it had paid out $1.6bn (£1bn). Its compliance with its obligation to make reparations, it said, had been "exemplary".Because he was blindfolded for much of his ordeal, García has been unable to identify his torturers. "Most were in civilian clothes," he said. "Sons of a bitch. The world should know what happened," he said. "My life has been a burden since then to others. I have not been able to work. I feel like I'm dead in life."ChileAmericasAugusto PinochetOwen Bowcottguardian.co.uk © 2013 Guardian News and Media Limited or its affiliated companies. 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