Tuesday, May 11

Today was another day spent on the campus of the University of Santa Maria. In the morning we heard from Leslie Wheeling, a Plus3 Chile alumna. Leslie participated in Plus3 Chile in 2004 and is now working in Santiago for TradeChile. TradeChile contracts with Pennsylvania to help small and medium-sized Pennsylvania businesses export to Chile. In the afternoon, after another lunch in the student cafeteria, we heard about economies in Latin America, including Chile, from Professor Jaime Rubin de Celis. He also has a Pitt connnection as he is earning his PhD in strategy from the Katz Graduate School of Business. In the evening there was another salsa class. Everyone has promised to go to bed at a reasonable time tonight as we have an early morning visit to a copper smelter tomorrow.