Yesterday on the drive back to Santiago from one of our blueberry farms, I stopped to visit some friends who lived in the area. About a year ago they bought some land in Chile’s incredibly fertile 7th region, which boasts a rare Mediterranean climate. It never gets too hot, and
Over the weekend, just as I was arriving back to Chile after a few weeks away, the sky above Santiago opened up and started to dump heavy rain on the city. I was already in the car on the way down to one of our farms once the rains began.
May 12, 2015 Santiago, Chile A few days ago I was having lunch with some executives who run one of the largest fruit companies in the world. The company is Chilean, and as the guys are all local, they were curious about my take on Chile as a foreigner. I
April 2, 2014 Santiago, Chile I’m really humbled and grateful for all the emails from well-wishers who wanted to know if we were OK. In case you hadn’t heard, there was a pretty massive earthquake yesterday evening in northern Chile off the coast of Iquique near the Peruvian border. According
January 15, 2014 Santiago, Chile In 1892, 17 year old Pascual Baburizza stepped off the boat in what looked like an unwelcoming, arid landscape in the north of Chile. Baburizza had just spent several weeks on a boat travelling from his home island of Koločep, Croatia, which was then part
I’ve been in Chile now again for the past few weeks, and I’m really glad to be back. There’s lots of exciting stuff going on here, but today I want to tell you about a new way of obtaining residency in Chile that I’ve recently discovered. This is hot off
June 18, 2013 Bio Bio Region, Chile In the world of investing, there’s a lot to be said for buying undervalued assets. Occasionally the market provides some incredible opportunities to pick up high quality assets so cheap that, to paraphrase acclaimed investor Jim Rogers, all you have to do is
June 5, 2013 Santiago, Chile It’s really great to be back in Chile. Despite being early winter on this side of the earth, the weather in Santiago is still perfect. It’s a bright, beautiful, sunny day with fresh snow blanketing the nearby mountain peaks. My friends tell me that the
[Editor’s note: Sovereign Man’s resident Chilean property guru, Darren Kaiser, is filling in for Simon today.] As a property investor and speculator, I’m always studying trends and looking for anomalies. Learning about the history of a place, how it came to be as it is today, and then making predictions
Over the past few years Chile has made continuous strides to position themselves as a business friendly country. Investment in Chile has historically been directed to their rich copper mines and in a move to spur their metal exports, Chile has made a paramount deal with China to drastically increase
September 29, 2011 Stellenbosch, Western Cape, South Africa I want to address a question we’ve received a lot lately about Chile– why did I select Chile for the site of our resilient community, and how can I be certain that the government there won’t go crazy too? Look, there’s no
August 29, 2011 Santiago, Chile You’ve probably heard that old saying– ‘if you’re not a socialist by the time you’re 20, you have no heart. If you’re still one by the time you’re 30, you have no brain.’ This is true everywhere in the world. Even in capitalist bastions like
May 31, 2011 Santiago, Chile As I told Sovereign Confidential subscribers on our monthly teleconference yesterday afternoon, I’ve been focused over the last several months on sniffing out the best deals in Chilean farmland for our planned resilient community. We’re definitely close. My base in Chile is here in beautiful
December 24, 2010 Santiago, Chile It’s a long flight from Auckland to Santiago. Hell, it’s a long flight from Auckland to anywhere. You know, Australia is about 15 hours from anywhere, and New Zealand is 3 hours from Australia… so it’s out there. My primary mission over the last three
November 12, 2010 Bangkok, Thailand I’ve been back and forth along the route from Pattaya to Bangkok more times that I can remember. It takes about 90 minutes along one of Thailand’s best toll roads and costs less than $30 to hire a driver for the one-way journey, shockingly cheap
