ATACAMA DESERT, Chile — At the top of a craggy path in Socaire, a hilltop village deep in Chile's Atacama Desert, a black flag whips in the wind above Jeanette Cruz's house. The desert sun has ...

If anything, Chile is one of the biggest endemic countries in the world. Our natives have been around for the last 4,000 years and 80% of Chileans are mestizo [a person of mixed heritage].