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Columns and short essays on landscapes, cities, gardens, mountains, and territories, written from a cultural and historical perspective for a general audience.

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VD · El Mercurio, October 2026

The City of the Mapocho

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VD · El Mercurio, September 2026

Cultivating the Humanities

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VD · El Mercurio, August 2026

Andean Facets

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VD · El Mercurio, July 2026

Hymn to the Tree

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VD · El Mercurio, June 2026

The Mountain Has a Festival

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VD · El Mercurio, May 2026

Collector of Landscapes

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VD · El Mercurio, April 2026

The Room Next Door

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VD · El Mercurio, March 2026

Landscape and Monument

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VD · El Mercurio, February 2026

Deep into the Mountains

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VD · El Mercurio, January 2026

Venezuela's Park

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VD · El Mercurio, December 2025

The Crystallization of Nature

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VD · El Mercurio, November 2025

In the Cloud

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VD · El Mercurio, October 2025

Voices in the Desert

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VD · El Mercurio, September 2025

Territories

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VD · El Mercurio, August 2025

Snow Country

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VD · El Mercurio, August 2025

Winter Garden

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VD · El Mercurio, July 2025

The City in the Mirror

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VD · El Mercurio, June 2025

The Necessity of Ruins

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VD · El Mercurio, May 2025

The Other President’s Tree

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VD · El Mercurio, April 2025

Santiago's Green Soul

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VD · El Mercurio, March 2025

Reflections of a Summer

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VD · El Mercurio, February 2025

Lessons from LA

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VD · El Mercurio, January 2025

That Sea That Calmly Bathes Us

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VD · El Mercurio, December 2024

Rooted Christmas

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VD · El Mercurio, November 2024

Bitter, but Sacred

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VD · El Mercurio, October 2024

Our Perseus

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VD · El Mercurio, September 2024

Among Oaks and Hazels

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VD · El Mercurio, August 2024

Witnesses of History

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VD · El Mercurio, August 2024

The Patagua of the Armistice

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VD · El Mercurio, July 2024

Multi Maitén

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VD · El Mercurio, June 2024

To the Boldo of Oblivion

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VD · El Mercurio, May 2024

Make Way for the Giant

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VD · El Mercurio, April 2024

Memories of the Belloto

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VD · El Mercurio, March 2024

Sweet algarrobo

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VD · El Mercurio, February 2024

Ode to the tamarugo

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VD · El Mercurio, January 2024

Chile's Survival

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VD · El Mercurio, December 2023

The End of the World

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VD · El Mercurio, November 2023

The Park that Never Was

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VD · El Mercurio, October 2023

The Stadium that Never Was

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VD · El Mercurio, September 2023

The Invisible Thread

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VD · El Mercurio, September 2023

The Other 50 Years

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VD · El Mercurio, August 2023

Prometheus of the Plains

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VD · El Mercurio, July 2023

Nature's Law

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VD · El Mercurio, June 2023

The Invention of the Mountain

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VD · El Mercurio, May 2023

The Color of Landscape

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VD · El Mercurio, April 2023

Magallanes, Magallanes

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VD · El Mercurio, March 2023

Nature’s Frenemies

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VD · El Mercurio, February 2023

The Things We Lost in the Fire

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VD · El Mercurio, January 2023

In the Shadows

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VD · El Mercurio, December 2022

Lost Landscapes

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VD · El Mercurio, November 2022

Baron Albert

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VD · El Mercurio, October 2022

The Baron in the Trees

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VD · El Mercurio, October 2022

The Land of Fires

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VD · El Mercurio, September 2022

In the Mood for Love

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VD · El Mercurio, August 2022

Conventional Landscapes

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VD · El Mercurio, July 2022

Landscapes for the People

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VD · El Mercurio, June 2022

The Myth of Golf

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VD · El Mercurio, May 2022

French Touch

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VD · El Mercurio, April 2022

Wild Strawberry

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VD · El Mercurio, March 2022

Avocados INC

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VD · El Mercurio, February 2022

A Terrible Greenery?

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VD · El Mercurio, January 2022

The President’s Tree

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VD & La Tercera, December 2021

The Cerrillos Agent

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VD · El Mercurio, December 2021

The Andes, the Andes

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VD · El Mercurio, November 2021

It’s Not Just 20 Trees

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VD · El Mercurio, October 2021

Esmée Cromie

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VD · El Mercurio, October 2021

The Structure of Santa Lucía

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VD · El Mercurio, September 2021

Majestic White Mountain

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VD · El Mercurio, August 2021

The Cinderella of the Capital

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VD · El Mercurio, July 2021

Three Women Writers for the City

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VD · El Mercurio, June 2021

The Day after Tomorrow

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VD · El Mercurio, May 2021

Flor Vera

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VD · El Mercurio, April 2021

Geographical Heritage?

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VD · El Mercurio, March 2021

Spaces of Equity

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VD · El Mercurio, February 2021

Postcards from the Mapocho

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VD · El Mercurio, January 2021

Quillay mon amour

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VD · El Mercurio, December 2020

A Country of Mountains?

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VD · El Mercurio, November 2020

Pioneers, Naturally

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VD · El Mercurio, October 2020

TREE, Not a Little Tree

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VD · El Mercurio, October 2020

Republic of Nature

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VD · El Mercurio, September 2020

A good opportunity

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VD · El Mercurio, August 2020

Nostalgia for community

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VD · El Mercurio, July 2020

Nature and education

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VD · El Mercurio, June 2020

A political decision

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© Romy Hecht · 2026

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© Romy Hecht · 2026

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