<Hormuz Inflation> Along the street in Santiago, Chile, a day after a massive manifestation against the fuel price rises under the administration of the far right wing President José Antonio Kast, a man and a woman sit on a bench and sell booties knit by the woman for children. This, she says, is how she supplements her modest retirement. He entertains her with stories, and with cigarettes. There is a musician nearby, another older man, playing a charango, a king of Andean lute, and singing sad songs. There is a war in Iran, but its impact flutters on the wings of a butterfly to the other end of the earth.