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Valparaiso, Chile.

This ramshackle city has no urban planning but you’ll love it

The unconventional Chilean city Valparaiso has no big sights and no pretensions, but it does have what counts: plenty of character.

  • Brian Johnston

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Inside the economy cabin. The first six rows offer extra legroom.

This airline seat offers great legroom, but miserly food offerings

Upgrading to the extra legroom seats is well worth the price, but nine hours of fasting may leave you famished.

  • Julie Miller
Ushuaia – the southernmost city in Argentina.

Feel like you’ve seen it all? This cruise will change your mind

South America is an overlooked cruise destination, but nowhere gives you the chance to sail to more varied destinations.

  • Brian Johnston
The majestic Vinicunca in the Cusco region of Peru, also Rainbow Mountain.

Extraordinary and exotic: Why now is the time to visit South America

There are more flights and South America remains better value than Europe or the US. Here is our beginner’s guide to travelling around this continent of extremes.

  • Chris Moss and Julietta Jameson
Adriana Rivas

The Bondi ‘torture’ nanny and the grieving families

While Adriana Rivas cared for children in Sydney’s eastern suburbs, the families of her alleged victims endured years of sorrow.

  • Perry Duffin
Adriana Rivas.

Chilean ‘torture chamber operator’ turned Bondi nanny in shock legal challenge

Adriana Rivas cared for the children of the city’s well-to-do while prosecutors in her home country hunted her down, claiming she helped run a dictator’s torture chamber.

  • Perry Duffin
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Qantas provides blankets and pillows in economy.

Airline review: Qantas economy surprisingly good, despite codeshare woes

It turns out Qantas and its codeshare partner don’t speak to each other, which causes a few hassles on an otherwise comfortable flight.

  • Katrina Lobley
A gloved hand holds traces of lithium concentrate at a lithium mine in the Atacama Desert, Chile.

Resources nationalism is threatening China’s push to secure critical minerals

Partial nationalisation of a vast lithium project in Chile is the latest move by developed and developing countries to prevent China from locking up the mineral supply critical to its dominance of the world’s battery industry.

  • Stephen Bartholomeusz

The June 2 Edition

In our special winter reading issue, we talk with a slew of great writers. Famed Chilean author Isabel Allende graces our cover and share her success story.

Isabel Allende has sold more than 74 million books worldwide.

At 81, Isabel Allende knows how she’d like to die: ‘At home, with warm socks and a dog’

The Chilean writer, who has sold more than 74 million books, has an unlikely new project featuring her rescue dog, Perla.

  • Robyn Doreian

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