Ambassador of Japan in Chile “My primary goal is to demonstrate that the Japanese people are with you.” Mayor Pedro Edmunds Paoa and Japanese Ambassador Kazuhisa Shibuya inaugurated the Comprehensive Care Center in Rapa Nui. The center, funded by the Japanese government, operates in Mataveri and serves elderly and disabled
Te tātou ‘ōro’a he Tāpati Rapa Nui 2023 Mai te toru ki te ho’e ‘ahuru mā ho’e mahana o Hetu’u Pū The details of the next Tāpati 2023 after the Covid 19 By Camila Sandoval Photos by I. Municipalidad de Isla de Pascua This celebration, which values the cultural heritage
A North American Air Force base installed on Easter Island in the 1960s was part of a project of espionage on the Soviet Union from space. The journalist Patricia Stambuk clarifies all doubts with recently declassified documents from Washington: “Rapa Nui formed part of the larger scenario of the Cold
The Rapanui Families Organize The Honui Rapa Nui is the organization in which each Rapanui family name elects its own representative to speak and decide on the future of the Island. (sentence added) 2016 was the 50th anniversary of the government of Chile establishing civil administration on Rapa Nui, after
Island Entrepreneurs purify the Water In the past, Easter Islanders got their drinking water from the craters of the extinct volcanoes Rano Kau, Rano Raraku and Rano Aroi, as well as from the many subterranean caves that, even to the present day, hold an abundance of fresh water. Rainwater filters
Teatro a Mil 2017 in Rapa Nui This coming year, the international theater festival “Santiago a Mil” will also include Easter Island. The artistic event, held every year in the month of January, will not only take over the streets, theaters and other public spaces of the capital city, but
A Choir for Rapa Nui Last December, the newly-formed Choir of Isla de Pascua offered its first presentations in the parish church and in the Hotel Hanga Roa. They sang some Christmas carols, songs from “The Sound of Music” and “The Wizard of Oz”, two Polynesian songs which had been
