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Chile

Chile is on the move. Thanks to a decade of economic growth, it boasts a vast new infrastructure of highways and tunnels, and a massive increase in the use of cars and trucks.

But up here on the slopes of the Andes, there is only silence.

While their parents toil in the rich fertile fields of the Elqui Valley below, Nicolas Milla, 3, and Brenda Carrasco, 4, play together under a perfect azure sky.

Their village of Andacollito, with its old water tower and tiny clapboard church, is almost deserted by day. At night the glow of television sets bears testimony to a growing prosperity, with Chilean exports of fish, fruit and wine now reaching an all-time high.

Their parents may not own the land they work on - but there is an increasing chance that their children will.