Santiago, Chile. In Santiago, they have reached issue #113 of their newsletter Berriketari and its director, Ignacio Bastarrica, also club president, and his wife Maria Angelica Carrasco Vera, editor of the newsletter summarize the news and activities that have taken place in their community over the past two months, They explain that the city of Santiago passed to the 3rd phase in relation to COVID-19, in the last days of September, allowing some Basque club activities to recover gradually. Among these is the reopening of the Amalur Restaurant with outdoor seating, and pilota with the Chilean Selection of Pilota beginning to train at the club.
Along with that, other articles include a review, for example of the “Euzkadi” magazine from 1943-1949, by Alvaro Montes de Oca; the last goodbye to Mother Margarita, the recently deceased abbess of the neighboring convent of the Augustine Mothers that is closely linked to Euzko Etxea; Palmira Oyanguren signs an article entitled, “The ‘Chilena’ is a Basque Thing,” with a sports theme; another article summarizes the celebration in Ormaiztegi (Gipuzkoa) of the Day of the Basque Diaspora; and going back to the beginning, a final text reports some of the club’s activities in this new phase in relation to the pandemic.
- Number 113 of Berriketari available here
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