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Jonathan Franklin

Anyone who reads ’33 Men’ will be brought into a world that was practically a textbook case of sensory deprivation and torture.

– Jonathan Franklin

Jonathan Franklin

I have interviewed Hugo Chavez, Tim McVeigh, and hundreds of fascinating characters in South America, where I have lived for the past 15 years.

– Jonathan Franklin

Jonathan Franklin

I feel best in a ragged pair of red Honda Motorcycle pants. I have taken them to Machu Picchu, to the Knob Creek Machine Gun festival, and backstage to Cirque du Soleil – just the right touch to make you untouchable. No one quite dares to throw you out, because perhaps you are a world class motocross racer.

– Jonathan Franklin

Jonathan Franklin

I would like to be remembered as the reporter who snuck back stage to all the off-limits shows, be it the Vatican dressing room, the Pentagon war room, or the Celtics locker room. Some curtains ought never to be pulled back; others deserve to be ripped down. When appropriate, I want to be the curtain remover.

– Jonathan Franklin

Jonathan Franklin

I wrote ’33 Men’ in eight weeks. Not only was it a combination of simultaneously writing and interviewing, but as I dug deeper into the miners’ story, I found the key to their success was the ability to place their individuality on the back burner and bring forward the sense of a collective group responsibility.

– Jonathan Franklin

Jonathan Franklin

Vegetarians are doomed in the Chilean street-food scene, though if they are willing to ingest small quantities of lard, they can enjoy the ever-popular squash, salt and lard biscuits known as sopaipillas.

– Jonathan Franklin

Jonathan Franklin

Many foreigners imagine that Latin American cuisine is spicy, but Chilean food, on the whole, is extremely bland: salt, vinegar, mayonnaise, and more salt are the four basic condiments. Black pepper is conspicuously absent, and not only from the food – it is also rarely available even on request.

– Jonathan Franklin

Jonathan Franklin

There’s nothing very exotic about classic Chilean street food. Imagine a hot dog hidden beneath an explosion of mayonnaise and ketchup. Cost? Twenty-five to 30 pence. This is the completo, an all-purpose solution to breakfast, lunch or, once, the curiously English teatime snack enjoyed by Chileans of all ages.

– Jonathan Franklin

Jonathan Franklin

Style-wise, Valle Nevado is what can only be described as ‘hip international.’ Brazilians, Chileans and Europeans make the place seem like an electronic music festival transported to an remote Andean valley. Huge speakers blare out thumping, bass-heavy music, while promotoras stalk the staircases selling everything from Red Bull to mobile phones.

– Jonathan Franklin

Jonathan Franklin

Getting to Valle Nevado is half the fun. A serpentine road from Santiago wriggles up the spine of Andean peak for an hour, then traverses a valley and finally up again. The hotel is perched on a rugged mountain crag at 3,000m: no other sign of human development is visible from this spot, which is close to the Argentinean border.

– Jonathan Franklin

Jonathan Franklin

When all else fails, I am comforted by the fact that when I am ill or old, I will never be on my own. After all, you’d have to be a pretty terrible father if not one of your seven daughters was willing to take care of you at the end.

– Jonathan Franklin

Jonathan Franklin

It is a gift to be a teenager, and I see a dad’s job as lifeguard, not chaperone.

– Jonathan Franklin

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