Tag: Basques in Chile
Lehendakari Aguirre’s first tour of the Americas: 76 years of a...
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When Lehendakari Aguirre started his tour of Latin America in 1942, it was hard to imagine a worse...
Closing a nearly five-century old circle: a ‘novena’ of the Basques...
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A few days ago, we dedicated a longer article to the Brotherhood of the Virgen of Arantzazu of...
February 13: 406 years of the foundation of the Brotherhood of...
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When, on February 13, 1612, a group of Basques in Lima, Peru decided to meet and start up a...
Margot Duhalde, the Basque-Chilean who fought as a World War 2...
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BBC World broke the news to us. Margot Duhalde was born in 1920 into a Basque-French family in...
From Cambridge: “When I’m in the Basque Country, I’m at home”
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Sofia Weiss, born in Chile to a Swiss-British father and a mother whose last name was Goitiandia, but...
Agapito Palacios, from the Alavan Rioja region, who baptized a mountain...
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We’ve said that our blog oftentimes serves as a way to discover new things, and learn much more...
Pelota, the Basque sport, Pancho Villa’s passion, and its spread through...
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On this occasion, we’re going to bring together news from several sources. One was published on the website...
A Chilean documentary on Alzheimer’s: “I’m not from here (Chile)…I’m from...
Costa Rican daily El País has a report on the documentary “I’m not from here”, directed by Chilean Maite Alberdi and Lithuanian Giedre Zickytèque,...
The highest Basque peak is 11,860ft/3,615m tall and is in…the Andes
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All our lives, we’ve always believe that the tallest Basque mountain, at 7,966ft/3,615m, is the Mesa de...