I have even begun to think that I am caring for Argentina and Chile perhaps more than Argentines and Chileans. I feel like I'm sort of a de facto citizen, because I am looking after their national patrimony - which is the land - very carefully.

I'm sort of half-Chilean at this point anyway, half-Argentine. This is where I have been living and working for a long time now.

If you're not willing to take the political heat, then you shouldn't get into the game of land conservation, especially on a large scale.

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