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The Parra family: What can possibly explain the talent of brothers Violeta, Nicanor and Roberto, and their large and very creative descendants?
Santos Rubio, popular songwriter: The blind songwriter is also a poet, a "payador"; and the interpreter of a typical kind of Chilean guitar, the "guitarrón".
Pedro Yáñez, What's in a "paya"?: He's one of the founders of Inti Illimani, one of Chile's most popular Latinamerican roots group. But he's also a significant figure of the popular genre known as "paya".
Advis: A tribute to the great Chilean composer, by Bernardo Guerrero.
Folklore's "grand damme": The remarkable work of Raquel Barros, singer and investigator.
Stories of the cueca: Musician Mario Rojas thinks everybody's free to like or dislike our national dance. But he's one of those who adores it.
Violeta "to the rescue": Besides being a first-class poet, an unforgettable singer and a truly complete artist, our Violeta Parra was an investigator and rescuer of the folk songs that were orally transmitted at the countryside of Chile.
My sister Violeta: Famous folk singer Eduardo Lalo Parra can talk about his family in rhymes.
The mind behind the cueca: A tribute to late investigator Fernando Gonzalez Maraboli.
The O'Higgins' novel: Can a hero full of flaws and mysteries still be a hero? The answer to this question determined how little we know of Bernardo O'Higgins' private life.
The Selk'nam's witness: British anthropologist Anne Chapman learnt about one of our most interesting tribes through a life devoted to investigation in the world's most extreme region.
A wonder of adaptation: Interview with historian Mateo Martinic about Patagonia's native tribes, the world's most Austral inhabitants.
A chilean in Calcutta: Learn about the generous journey of Carlos Kubik.
The tribe's wise man: Gastón Soublette has been able to draw a bridge between the most ancient philosophies and our folklore and true roots.
Plaques, everywhere : Historian Sergio Martínez has the strangest of hobbies: to install as many commemorative plaques as he can.
Bicentennial Award 2004: Musicologist Luis Merino has dedicated his life to his two main passions: music and teaching.
Alfredo Jocelyn-Holt: The Chilean historian has an alternative and maybe polemic interpretation of our Independence.
Raquel Barros Aldunate: Folklore's "grand damme".
Ruperto de Nola: All about Chiean cuisine.
Sergio Larraín García-Moreno: One of Chile's most important architects and founder of the Pre-Columbian Art Museum.

Leopoldo Castedo: His interest for our country's history, costumes and culture earned this Spanish historian the Chilean nationality.
The Parra family: What can possibly explain the talent of brothers Violeta, Nicanor and Roberto, and their large and very creative descendants?
Our Matta: Homage to the late Chilean painter.

Fray Andresito : He was called "God's beggar". During the 19th Century he became Santiago's most respected Franciscans. He may soon be declared a Saint by the Vatican.
Our website: Cecilia García-Huidobro, the founder of www.nuestro.cl and Chile’s Cultural Heritage Corporation's Executive Director talks here about the growth and influence of this website. “It has gone beyond my expectations”, she says.
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