Chinese-American's Stupid Move in XII Region - Magallanes/Antarctica

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By now this has been reported in several languages: Chilean authorities have detained and charged a Chinese-born American teenager for a false flight plan and unauthorized flight of a single-engine Cessna 182 from Punta Arenas to King George Island in the Antarctic region, and other charges may be added.

Chilean media are reporting that for now, the kid may not leave Chile pending further prosecution measures and is required to make a monthly sign-in. The judge in the matter has established a typical 90 day investigation period.

The set of potential points of violation is actually rather lengthy, in part because of the list of requirements that Chile’s aeronautical directorate imposes on flights to King George Island, including insurance and environmental compliance measures.

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And then there is the hilarious invention of the kid’s defense attorney, Karina Ulloa, who insisted on the illegality of the detention in denying that there was a violation of the Aeronautical Code. [Yeah, right…] Her argument, which defies belief, is that in the course of the authorized overflight of Punta Arenas, child-pilot Guo experienced an emergency situation due to “climatic reasons” and subsequently had to find someplace else to land, like maybe, you know, somewhere several hundred km away, like the Argentine Antarctic airfield, but you know, the Chilean base in Antarctica was closer, so …

The attorney is a bigger joke than the client: Ulloa =>

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This is so very Chile where dysfunction is a fine art. Written with love and affection, I prefer the annoying dysfunction of Chile to the pure insanity of North America.

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Or in other words, the natives are stupid and that is the way I like it.

I believe that in Chile you will find exceptionally large degrees of both gargantuan dysfunction and clinical insanity, with full contributions of the dishonesty, corruption, and deficient plumbing inherent in Latin America.

The difference may well be in your selective perception and willingness to acknowledge it all. Being squirreled away in the primitive Maule wop-wops, bereft of daily exposure to these unpleasant realities, it is understandable that there is comfort in avoiding observation.

That said, what is “dysfunctional” about arresting the idiot Chinese pilot?

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Dear reader, Please do not read while eating.
Thank you, Findes, for pointing out how my comment could be construed as condescending. Having a master of condescension take the time to critique my comment is a dubious honour indeed.

I love this country and especially its people and hope to spend the rest of my life here. But in many ways it is dysfunctional and I have learned to live with it.

Example 1. Going into a public bathroom in a government facility and reading the sign that says SOLO URINAR. Yes this sign was on the wall of the bathroom of the revision tecnica. I took a photo of the sign. and kept it on my laptop but later that year in the 6 seconds it took to help Mom do up her seatbelt on the bus in the infamous terminal centrale, a thief stole my backpack with the laptop and I lost a year of unsaved short stories as well as that memorable photo.,

Example 2. Buying saran wrap and finding that the little metal saw blade was not part of the packaging. In other words you have to find scissors and cut each piece of saran wrap without it getting all entangled. I assumed the little metal saw blade was part of the box packaging, but not here in Chile.

Example 3 the contractor who installed the plumbing on my house put the plumbing line from the water heater to the kitchen outside the house alongside the foundation. In order to wash dishes I have to heat copious pots of hot water on the stove because by the time the water leaves the water heater and gets to the kitchen sink it is cold.

Example 4. Not being able to put toilet paper in the toilet because the system is too feeble to handle it. In fact the plumbing system is so feeble that if you have a large segment in your totally normal healthy bowel movement you must cut it into smaller pieces in order for it to flush completely.

Example 5. Products that fall apart. The handle from the dustpan disengages within the first few months of using. The handle from the toilet plunger slides out of the rubber part whenever pressure is applied. Nothing is built to last very long.

There are many more examples. To balance this I will add some brilliance I have experienced in Chile. The tarjeta de coordinados is a work of genius. No easily hacked passwords, just an impossible grid of numbers that you use for banking transactions online. Far beyond North American Neanderthal attempts at banking security.

As for what is dysfunctional about arresting the pilot, I think idiocy should be addressed with a suitable punishment, not jail. Perhaps community service, perhaps a strong fine, but not a criminal record. Teenagers do stupid things but Chile is a country with a heart.

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In other words, the natives are not just stupid but impossibly inept, thieving, and dishonest rotos and that’s the way I like it.

In all the time I lived in Oh,Canada, while grateful that my ancestors there were not eaten by the polar bears in NWT, I do not recall anything that might have made me wish for living amongst the unwashed not just stupid but impossibly inept and so on. And mind you, I worked for not much more than minimum Canadian wage and slept pretzelled in my car. You must have experienced something truly awful in the Great White North to want to trade it for the Kalahari of Chile… wait a minute… was it Québec?? If so, I would understand. Tabarnak! There is indeed something worse than stupid and inept and it speaks French avec un dialecte des plus horribles

A country without a brain, without a heart, and bereft of any sort of ethical courage.

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The air is polluted in much of Canada, cloud spraying, cell towers, mysterious wildfires in on-fire seasons, smog and smog blamketig the East, Quebec was the most culturally advanced province, I remember returning to Qc from boring Ontario and I knew I was finally in la belle province when instead of incessant rock rap and country on the car radio, there were the sweet sounds of classical and jazz. Quebecers have more heart and soul and joie de vivre than money driven Ontarians.

Sadly mass immigration from Muslim countries is overloading the system and threatening to bring in Sharia law, beginning with UK. Any culture that still condones the stoning of women to death is not where I want to be. And I think this influx is going to spread all over the world. Muslims have had ample chance to condemn stoning of women but have not and they reproduce at higher rates than any other ethnic group.

I have illiterated my reasons for staying. What are yours? To have more material for your griping? Seriously, why do you stay?

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Uff, Canada can’t fog a candle compared to the crap that fills Chilean air.

Santiasco? Probably the most consistently most polluted city in all of Latin America, and one high on the world wide list of filthy air cities. Of course it depends on who is measuring what pollutants. O3? Off the graph. PM2.5? Way off the graph. Coyhaique used to be Chile’s undisputed most polluted, but Stgo worked hard to regain the scummy crown and now the two are duking it out for worst place.

And like so much of the country north of Puerto Montt, agricultural impacts are increasingly part of the overall pollution package. That means that yes, Maule as well is getting overspray from pesticide/herbicide and other particulates elsewhere, in ways that nobody wants to measure and count.

World Health Organization, 2025: of the ten most contaminated cities in South America, Chile proudly claims six of them.

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Why Chile, then?

Well, I can’t go back to Canada, so there is that. At least until the expiry of certain statutory limits. And then there is the local co-conspirator with two very healthy, ummm, XX chromosomes. And everyone she and her cat are related to. But more importantly, it is my exceedingly shrewd investment portfolio in the country, which requires constant hands-on attention. And then since we are discussing the aether, can you say “bueno, incluso durante el invierno”?

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I was referring to country air where you can still see a gazillion stars at night. You see the smog, I see the stars, we are both seeing correctly depending where we are in this long skinny country.

Why would you bring the gender of your coconspirator into the convo??? Sometimes its hard to tell if someone is drunk-texting, especially when they are literate. The strong scent of bitterness in your posts makes me wonder…

Anyway, happy winter to you

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Looks like I hijacked my own thread. Oh, well.

Part of the value or utility of such fora as these is the opportunity to challenge the color of the lens of the prospective Auslander who might, in a drug-induced reverie or similar, have viewed Chile, Mierda, in comparatively unrealistic terms.

And quite frankly, I also had unreasonably optimistic notions in the 1990s, those gradually fraying and decaying until Red October, at which point it became clear once again that Chile had and has no hope, that it would continue its forever cycling back to breeding large numbers of anarcho-Bolsheviks and MIRistas Lite, imbued with the worst flavors of viveza criolla. And then subsequently electing things like the current Merluzo. A country that does all that, to that degree, must be reasonably viewed as beyond forgiveness or redemption or the slightest chance of salvation .

And it was at that critical point, as Providencia was crashing and burning all around us during our fleeing on 19 de octubre – a date which will live in infamy – we finally understood The Real Chile. The drunken, empty-headed, recurrent, self-destructive idiot beast that is at the heart and gall bladder of the Chilean Body Politic. And it was not just ugly, but simply criminal in its vastness and its wanton, depraved villainy and unfettered assholescent vandalism.

Visitor, do yourself a favor, sooner than later. Look and see beneath the thin and frangible crust of superficial civility here. Or as we have done – make your tiny fortune in this backwater pago chico while the getting is good, but have a firm Plan B-Plus for converting it all to hard currency and getting out when it all turns to shite again.

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Having lived here since 2012, do you still consider me a visitor? I was here for 19 octubre. Nowhere near a large city of course. I have always avoided cities. When one compares Oct 19 to riots in the US, antifada? George Floyd, and now ongoing ICE riots, I still choose Chile.

And as far as “commie” thought goes, NYC is far ahead of Chile.

“If there was any system that could guarantee each person housing, whether you call it the abolition of private property or you call it, you know, just a statewide housing guarantee, it is preferable to what is going on right now,” Mamdani added. ( NYC Mayoral contender, leading in the polls)

I do not understand how you can stay somewhere that elicits such bitterness from you. Oh, yes, love. Am glad you at least found that.

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Nice debate. I am straddling the line still on the Chile side for various personal reasons BUT see a reversal to all this shit if Kast gets elected and DOES WHAT HE SAYS HE WILL DO. I hope he is like a Trump but in a much more gentlemanly Chilean manner. Then this turd world country can once again dream to be like a first world country but with the experience that they almost lost it to the commies AGAIN.

We shall see.

BTW it is O18 for accuracy. October 19 is when the planned Veneco/Cubano/Chile PC coup spread to the rest of the country, notably beginning with the morning news cast of the San Antonio Av. Barros Lucos confrontation and the fire at the Tottus.

I would have also been in Providencia in a Booking apartment similar to the poster above on O18 if I had decided to have an operation on my knee instead of the alternative therapy using mother cells to repair it. But I still got it in my face the next day when it came to my local digs and the rest of the country.

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We were at ground zero on both 18 and 19th, in Providencia. Yes, indeed, the 18th is usually listed as the date for the beginning of Red October. From what we could see on the morning of the 19th, the events of the 18th seemed as though they might have been brought under control. But we still suspected further anarcho-Bolshevism and so by the evening of the 19th we were outta Dodge. By the time we got back to Magallanes, Punta Arenas was under attack by the heathen hordes and the feminist hoodlum comrades of Boris’ former polola.

Estimada, All that mention of America is meaningless, like weeping with concern for Angola or Antioquia.. We are comparing Canada to Chile.

The reference to " visitor" was a bit ambiguous but meant to address people with those silly stars in their eyes who have not learned what the country is about.

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Estimado, master of assumptions, I lived in the US for 14 years, some in LA, some in NYC. My husband was an American and I still have family there. Nobody is weeping crocodile tears. Canada is well under the control of the WEF and US is still fighting it but since the WEF controls media and politicians…and soon NYC…

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Mea culpa. So I edited that flawed assumption and accusation. But since we have been comparing Canada to Chile, if you left Canada for Chile, then that is where we should confine the comparisons. Otherwise, when I lived in West Pinchmoose du Lac, Bolivia was having issues so logically I moved to Romania.

Now, WTF was wrong with Canada that you would move to Chile Mierda ?

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WTF was wrong with Canada and Why Chile? An excellent question. I did not make this decision without extensive research and exploration. So many people have asked “Why Chile?” I posted an online book describing my odyssey through multiple countries in the pursuit of my dream to open an animal sanctuary.

Some of us are burdened with a need to have meaning to our lives. Victor Frankl said it best. “The meaning of life is to give life meaning.” The animal sanctuary, Santuario Cielos Azules, enables me to help those without a voice and this gives meaning to my life.

You will find all the reasons, including cultural, financial, practical and spiritual and all the adventures, synchronicities, obstacles, epiphanies and gifts I encountered on this unique journey starting with Chapter One posted on February, 2024 . I had no idea when I began my search that I would end up in Chile but I would not trade the last 13 years, frustrations and all, for any other place.

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