Michael Woodward, a Roman Catholic priest, worked with the poor in the port city of Valparaiso.

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In the coastal city of Valparaiso, the port has been closed to small vessels, and the main road to Argentina across the Andes mountains has also been shut.

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In 2011, it launched an annual festival called Puerto de Ideas, or Port of Ideas, a creative conference that brings Latin American and global scholars, artists and scientists to Valparaiso for a series of lectures and exhibitions.

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