My great-grandfather, Simeon Leland, was an economist and an amateur photographer. He made some kind of official trip to Latin America in 1950, and he and I have been to some of the same places, and so you can compare rather directly how things have changes over fifty-odd years. Here’s Chile’s major port, Valparaíso,  where we had almost the exact vantage.

In 1950 it was already a busy port:

And here it is in 2006. The hills are much more closely packed.