Dear Editor:
The landscape of central Chile looks beautiful thanks to this year's abundant rains. Green hills, green pastures, and green fields, covered with grass and wildflowers... Beautiful until everything dries out and becomes fuel that, combined with heat, wind, and human negligence, can end up feeding terrible fires.
"Green, how I want you green. Green wind. Green branches," wrote García Lorca at the beginning of his "Romance Sonámbulo"... may the beautiful green of our springtime landscape not follow the tragic fate of the green in the poem.
Juan Luis Hernández Viera
Civil engineer
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The landscape of central Chile looks beautiful thanks to the abundant rains this year. Green hills, green pastures, and green fields, covered in grass and wildflowers... Beautiful until everything dries out and turns into fuel that, combined with heat, wind, and human negligence, can end up fueling terrible fires. "Green, I want you green. Green wind. Green branches," wrote García Lorca at the beginning of his "Somnambulist Romance"... I hope the beautiful green of our spring landscape does not follow the tragic fate of the green in the poem.
Juan Luis Hernández Viera
Civil Engineer
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