When: March 20-28, 2009
Universidad del Desarrollo, our partner in Chile, provides a program that focuses on Latin American and Chilean business and economic development (particularly the Chilean economic miracle), doing business in Chile, cross-cultural management, and history and culture of the region. The program includes a city tour, presentations and company tours. Company visits have included the Cousino Macul winery, Telefonica telephone company, and a national supermarket chain headquarters.
The City
Santiago (5,500,000) is a city of stark contrasts. On the one hand, it is a city with a gleaming new international airport, skyscrapers hosting telecommunications and financial services firms, and streets jammed with late model cars and people on cell phones. On the other hand, the city also has heavy motor vehicle traffic, pockets of extreme poverty and, because of the surrounding mountains and the heavy traffic, pollution in the winter months. The city is the political and economic capital of Chile, arguably the most stable and prosperous country in South America. Santiago provides easy access to the breath-taking beauty of the Andes and the Pacific coast.
Santiago is really made up of 31 semi-autonomous comunas or neighborhoods that surround the colonial core city. The city has many beautifully landscaped parks and fine, affordable restaurants.
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