YEEEEEEEEHAAAAAAA!
The company is on a big cost-cutting program and they figured the easiest way to reduce costs is to get rid of all the gringos. Good luck to them I say.
No worries, the wife and I are glad to be coming home. We'll hang out in Chile until the end of March, then head home. That will get us into the start of Spring in Idaho. We're excited.
Just ordered a new Ford, F350, fire-breathing turbo diesel pickup, so it should arrive about the same time we do. A new truck is reason enough to come home.