Patagonia

Patagonia (Region)

Patagonia is a geographical region that encompasses the southern end of South America, governed by Argentina and Chile. The region comprises the southern section of the Andes Mountains with lakes, fjords, temperate rainforests, and glaciers in the west and deserts, tablelands and steppes to the east. Patagonia is bounded by the Pacific Ocean on the west, the Atlantic Ocean to the east, and many bodies of water that connect them, such as the Strait of Magellan, the Beagle Channel, and the Drake Passage to the south. Both Chile and Argentina, through this region, have territorial claims in Antarctica.

People in the "conservation movement" make an effort to buy up land to preserve the wildlife.

Andinia Plan

A plan to resettle the Jews of Europe into Patagonia instead of Palestine, envisioned by Theodor Herzl himself. Wikipedia writes:

"The Andinia Plan (Spanish: Plan Andinia) is a conspiracy theory that alleged plans to establish a Jewish state in parts of Argentina and Chile. It is partly based on an exaggeration of historical proposals for organized Jewish migration to Argentina in the late 19th and the early 20th century (which, however, did not include plans for a Jewish state there). The name and contents of the plan have wide currency on some circles of the Argentinian and Chilean right-wing, but no evidence of its actual existence has ever been brought up, making it, according to the US-based Anti-Defamation League and the Israeli research institute Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs, an example of a conspiracy theory."

Secret nuclear experiment

According to the journalist Gaby Weber, the U.S. secretly detonated one or more nuclear devices in southern Argentina, near Puerto Deseado, in May 1960. The explosions were part of Project Plowshare, the concept of using atomic explosion for peaceful purposes such devices in civil construction. Herbert York, the chief developer of nuclear weapons in the Pentagon and the founder of the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, went to Argentina in 1960, after a suggested trial in Alaska met opposition.

According to Weber, the results of the explosions was the 1960 Valdivia earthquake and tsunami, on the Chilean side of the border, on 22 May 1960, the most powerful earthquake ever recorded. This leaves open the possibility that the civilian use of nuclear explosions were a fig leaf for an experiment in starting earthquakes with nuclear triggers in fault zones.

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