The Chilean Army to remove anti-tank mines were laid during the dictatorship of Augusto Pinochet (1973-1990) near the road leading to a tourist park located in Patagonia, in southern Chile, a military source said. “There are five minefields that are dangerous for transiting the route, and therefore seeks to minimize the risks for tourism,” said […]
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Some devices employed in mining explosives were found next to a kindergarten in Copiapó. The situation, at first, caused alarm among staff and children, although it was determined that no danger to the public. Were 8 devices that are often used in mining and explosives found in a ditch next to the kindergarten located in […]
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Chile has become a strategic market and important for Mexico in tourism, so the minister said that the country portfolio Aztec, Gloria Guevara, after reporting that this year, between January and July, there was a increase of 12% of Chilean tourists. “We have been focusing on markets that have been growing, Chile’s economy is going […]
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login.cl reported that mergency services in the region had to move last night to Route F-30E after the accident in the road that connects the towns of Puchuncaví and Quintero, left one dead and the possibility of radioactive contamination due to the destruction of a nuclear densimeter , which were used in the work carried […]
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In April last year the law was reformed on “trafficking” to punish with imprisonment those who bring foreigners to the lucrative sex trade. Before this legal amendment, Chile was a paradise for pimps who risked derisory punishments and returned to the business within days of arrest. CIPER investigated a band who ran brothels in an […]
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jornada.unam.mx reported that an incendiary device was defused today in the Metropolitan Cathedral of Santiago by specialists of the Carabineros militarized, police said. The device was left by strangers in a confessional main Catholic church in this country and consisted of a container with five liters of fuel, potassium hydrochloride and an electric timer who […]
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On the day of the 39th anniversary of the coup of Augusto Pinochet, the Chilean justice yesterday finally closed the investigation into the death of ousted socialist President Salvador Allende committed suicide and confirmed that among the military uprising. Read Article
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UK – Travel Information for Chile 11 September marks the 39th anniversary of Pinochet’s military coup in Chile, and public demonstrations related to that event sometimes turn violent. Be vigilant, especially after dark. Public transport, particularly urban buses, are occasionally a target of these protests. The following Santiago districts have in the past been the […]
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La progresiva infiltración de agentes extranjeros en sur de chile es un signo inequívoco de que este territorio que alberga riquezas inimaginables será extirpado del suelo común para crear allí un nuevo estado. El destino que les espera a los chilenos es sumamente ocuro pues estas potencias no tienen ninguna misericordia con las poblaciones originarias […]
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Google launched its project to install in Chile its first data processing center in Latin America, with an investment of 150 million dollars. The center will be located in an industrial area of the Quilicura in a suburb north of Santiago, and its construction will employ about 200 people. The heart then work with 20 […]
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Lacuarta.com reported that PDI police and rushed to the scene to investigate and establish the background or potential perpetrators. Minor damage to windows and a security booth left to detonate a bomb at a bank branch in the town of La Florida. According to the police report, the explosive device detonated in a unit of […]
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According to nacion.cl the Police Special Investigations Brigade (BIPE) of the PDI arrested two men accused of assaulting women, which is on a motorcycle in the communes of Maipú and Cerrillos. According to records, the individuals were known as “the bikers (Los Motoqueros)” and roamed the streets looking for victims of these areas alone, who […]
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Nacion.cl reported that 21% of Chilean workers who are willing to reduce the salary instead of losing their jobs, which outperforms countries such as India (76%), Spain (62%), and Italy (58%), reported quarterly ranking prepared by the international consultant HR, Randstad. According to the study, these figures relate “to the financial problems that the person […]
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According to the first installment of the results of the 2012 Census, the population grew by 10.1 percent, however, the study confirmed the aging of Chilean society. According to these data, currently in Chile would have 16,572,475 people and 5,729,977 households, of which 2 million are concentrated in the metropolitan area only. Francis Labbé, national […]
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radio.uchile.cl reported th Fourth Criminal Court imposed the original sentence Santiago in Chile for the offense of trafficking under the new rules that apply to this crime, following the adoption of Law 20,507 on Smuggling of Migrants and Trafficking. The trial, in which the National Human Rights Institute (NHRI) was plaintiff took place in the […]
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In the last operational research, carried out simultaneously during Tuesday night in Arica and Region V, the strength of the PDI arrested in the northern city Labarca Alfonso Alvarez (55), Customs officer who was in charge to handle the scanner guarding the entry load in Arica, and Claudio Contreras Molina (39), a member of the […]
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A branch of the Swedish clothing store H & M will open during the first half of 2013 in Santiago, in what is the first branch of this brand in Latin America. The store, to be located inside the mall Costanera Center, a branch will be more than the 2,600 that the brand has in […]
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150,000 people gathered Tuesday in the Alameda, the main avenue of the city, according to figures released by the Confederation of Students of Chile (CONFECH) . “The government said we were a minority: today we saw a clear signal and call massiveness. The government said we were divided, today gave a clear signal of unity. […]
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Mapuche Representatives began a hunger strike at the headquarters of the United Nations Fund for Children (UNICEF, for its acronym in Spanish) in Santiago, to denounce the criminalization of the Mapuche and noted the lack of support from the Unicef to the claims of the original community. The Indians remain a month at the headquarters […]
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Comunarios Daniel Campos Province Potosí department, border with the Republic of Chile, complained that the auto login “chutos” has not slowed, the little control in the area would be one of the reasons is intern allow tens weekly illegal car to the country, despite weighing a restriction for admission to the country. A community member […]
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According to the Superintendency of Electricity and Fuels (SEC), the cuts resulted in 2444 hours without power in different parts of the country. The Superintendency of Electricity and Fuels (SEC) issued a call to self, when kite flying during the Fiestas Patrias, then that in 2011 there were more than 1,300 outages by events related […]
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Minister Secretary General of Government, Andrés Chadwick, spoke on Wednesday to march that morning called for student leaders and said that the government is open to dialogue, but does not accept pressure or force measures as taking educational establishments. The spokesman said about that “space is completely open dialog, both here in La Moneda and […]
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Following over a hundred arrests made on Thursday and clashes with police, students in Santiago occupied on Friday the central building of the University of Chile, the country’s most important higher education facility, as the demands to the government over education reform ensue. Read Article
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Police began investigations into a drug-trafficking ring operating in Valparaiso, Chile after realizing individuals from various cities would bring drugs from Calma to Valparaiso. Once forces were mobilized, authorities detained a vehicle matching the profile of the suspect, Pura Noticia reports. The woman with whom the driver was travelling was concealing several packages of drugs. […]
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Police in Chile arrested a drug dealer from Santiago as he was travelling to Valdivia to open new markets. According to Biobio Chile, he was travelling in a vehicle with three adults and three children. The suspect, José Alberto Martínez Cárdenas, was travelling at night. He was caught outside a bus station after detectives spotted […]
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Small wooden figurines stuffed with cocaine were confiscated by Chilean officials in Santiago before they were sent to the United States through private mail. They were concealing about 1 kilogram of cocaine, Municipios al Dia reports. The statuettes, wooden horses, were also packed with carbon paper, which helped conceal the drugs from X-rays. The drugs […]
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High school students are now the protagonists of protests in Chile. In recent days, the students have taken several demonstrations to schools and announce the coming weeks to push education reform. Protests in Chile for a structural reform of education in Chile revived, this time at the hands of high school students. The Coordinating Assembly […]
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The students occupied during the morning and Monday morning the National Internship Barros Arana (INBA) and the Lyceum of Implementation, both located in the borough (district) of downtown Santiago, where six of the sixteen focus centers from the taken last week remain in the country. The INBA, that morning and was peacefully evicted by police, […]
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Police in Santiago used water cannons and tear gas as thousands of students took to the streets, raging against the government’s policy on education. Vandals set buses ablaze and attacked government property amid violence that left 49 Carabineros injured and 75 people arrested. Authorities say leaders of Wednesday’s protests cannot be exempt from responsibility for […]
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Special Forces Police in Chile have prevented Wednesday’s march of thousands of students and have faced lanzagua cars and tear gas. According to witnesses, the Chilean military police tried to disperse the students who had gathered to reject the profits to education. According to those present at the demonstration, the student resistance was suppressed by […]
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President of Chile, Sebastián Piñera, today enacted a law that anticipates the payment of a “Golden Anniversary Bonus” to couples celebrating 50 years of marriage and widows or widowers, and before it receive up to 2013 and 2014. This cash was introduced in 2011 as a tribute to those who meet five decades of marriage. […]
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A group of contract workers and leaders of the Pascua Lama mining project, being conducted by Canada’s Barrick Gold in Chile and Argentina, were taken today a Catholic Church in the northern town of Vallenar in protest labor demands of health and safety. Vice President of the Association of Workers and Contractors of the project, […]
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In Chile, banned such advertising, considering harmful to children. McDonald’s, Burger King, Kentucky Fried Chicken, among those affected. Believes that companies use fraudulent and abusive means to sell their products. McDonald’s, Burger King, Kentucky Fried Chicken and other fast food chains in Chile were sued for violating the country’s new law banning toys include baby […]
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It is assumed that the Valley of Copiapo in Chile is a picturesque grape-growing region. However, along this sector of the Atacama Desert today, only kilometers from dried grapes. Until recently, these vineyards in northern Chile were green, as they were supplied water coming from an underground tank. But in the driest desert in the […]
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The statutory provision includes a complete revision to the areas of maintenance and operations of the company, who has starred in four incidents in the past five days, affecting passenger safety. The Directorate General of Civil Aviation (DGCA) today announced it will conduct a thorough investigation of the local airline, Sky Airlines, after four “events” […]
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Some 200 workers at the Chilean airline Lan today began a work stoppage, which would impact the dispatch of aircraft from various airports in the country, said the union president Lan Express, Luis Chavez. According to the radio station Bio-Bio, the union leader said that “we stand workers are going to stop operations and the […]
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A couple was arrested after police in Chile cracked down on areas known to routinely see illegal merchandise trafficking, especially between Chile and Bolivia. The two were found near the village of Chiu Chiu, where officials observed a vehicle that had turned off its lights for an extended period of time. The occupants loaded the […]
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A 17-year old minor identified as C. R. R. was arrested in Chile while attempting to transport cocaine paste in diapers and juice. She was travelling from Iquique to Santiago when the bus was stopped at the customs station in El Loa, Diario 21 reports. Agents found the drugs in various areas of the bus. […]
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A zoo worker Metropolitan Santiago, Chile was seriously injured Sunday after being attacked by a white tiger, who was later killed, officials said. The incident occurred around 09.00 local time (13.00 GMT) on Sunday, when the zoo, located on the slopes of Cerro San Cristobal, in the center-north of the capital, had not yet opened […]
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A vessel belonging to the Navy in Chile fired bullets after a Peruvian boat entered Chilean waters and engaged in a drug transaction. The Peruvian boat, docked at Caleta Vitor, was transporting 38 kilos of pressed marijuana. It had docked late at night, when four individuals arrived in a van to receive the shipment, Soy […]
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Mexico: Woman victim survivor of sexual torture has received violent threats A Chilean woman(Valentina Palma) accusing officers for being responsible of sexual torture on 2006 receives a letter that has threatening messages directed towards her. Valentina Palma Novoa was one of the 49 female victims that were detained and raped by 26 state and federal […]
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Police in Chile arrested a man for transporting 50 million pesos worth of cocaine paste in his car along Route 5. According to 24 Horas, José Pulgar Cárdenas (55), who had been travelling with his 12-year-old son, was arrested. He had been driving a Peugeot 206 when police stopped and searched the car with X-ray equipment. […]
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A family that modeled themselves after the Italian mafia was broken up after police arrested 12 members. According to La Segunda, the family owned various houses in Santiago and along the coasts in Chile that are valued at $600 million. They were arrested for crimes of drug trafficking. Authorities have stated the family paid their […]
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Police in Antofagasta, Chile arrested two men after intercepting a drug trafficking scheme. According to Soy Chile, a vehicle was spotted as it travelled south on Route 5. Police searched the vehicle using a new truck scanner, which revealed 10 packages of cocaine base. The financier of the operation, who was to receive the drugs […]
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A total of 734 people died in Chile in traffic accidents during the first half of 2012, the lowest in the last sixteen years, said the Chilean Government. Transport Minister Pedro Pablo Errazuriz, presented the results of the first semiannual report on road safety this year, in which 95 people died in car crashes less […]
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After the meeting he held the National Prosecutor, Sabas Chahuán, with the directors of the Association of Parents and Guardians (AMDEPA) and the president of the Red Children Chile, Lorena Acped, it was learned that the Justice Department investigated 49 establishments eastern sector of the crime of sexual abuse against students. At the meeting also […]
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65% increased chance of this El Niño in the central Pacific, as global models such as NOAA (National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, for its acronym in English), which confirmed yesterday Edwin Pinto, head of department Marine Science Institute Oceanographic of the Navy. The event will be presented at coast of Ecuador in late 2012 and […]
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Araucania health officials banned the operation this morning, McDonald’s Portal Temuco then confirmed the presence of a mouse tail in a hamburger consumed by a customer on June 21. According to reports by the Head of the Department of Health Action SEREMI, Waldo Armstrong, upon investigation it was found that indeed the foreign element had […]
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A regional-watching cruise will take place from later this month, with the participation of scientists from Ecuador, Colombia, Chile and Peru. The intent is to determine with greater certainty whether El Niño is forming in the equatorial Pacific would reach the shores. This was announced by director of the Oceanographic Institute of the Navy (INOCAR), […]
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Authorities arrested three Peruvian citizens in the north of Chile as they attempted to cross the border with 65 kilos of cocaine. The drugs had been hidden inside rocks shaped like eggs, Peru 21 reports. Police in Chile found the suspects carrying 83 packages of drugs hidden inside 113 eggs. The eggs were discovered inside […]
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26.1 kilos of cocaine worth 1.3 million euros was discovered at the port of Le Havre, France hidden in containers of frozen mussels. According to the National Association of Customs in Chile, the drugs had arrived on a shipment from Chile without the knowledge of those shipping or receiving the mussels. Those responsible for packing […]
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The airline has increased its supply of seats for the Chilean market, which operates five weekly flights, which increased to 7 in high season is July and August. Sales of Air Canada to Chile would close 2012 with a growth that fluctuate between 15 and 20% compared to 2011, said Thursday the company’s general manager […]
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Chile’s president signed an anti-discrimination law Thursday following the killing of a gay man beaten by attackers who carved swastikas into his body. The law was approved in May after being stuck in Congress for seven years. President Sebastian Pinera had urged lawmakers to speed its approval after the slaying of Daniel Zamudio in March […]
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Cristina Reyes Peterson, also known as “La Loca Cristina,” was arrested in Chile with 124 packets of pressed marijuana, 103 of cocaine paste, and six of cocaine hydrochloride. She is known to have sold drugs in the Plaza O’Higgens in Valparaiso, which is located in the shadow of the National Congress building. She had left […]
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Chile – Deaths of U.S. citizens by Non-Natural Causes – 2011 Date City Cause of Death 11-15-2011 Puerto Varas, Chile Drowning 07-19-2011 Santiago, Chile Other Accident 01-11-2011 Calama, Chile Vehicle Accident – Motorcycle U.S. State Department –
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Officials arrested an individual travelling to Iquique, Chile along the route to Santiago who was carrying more than 142 doses of marijuana. The drugs were worth over 710,000 pesos, Soy Chile reports. He was arrested after officials stopped the charter bus in which he was travelling. With the aid of drug-sniffing dogs, four wrappers and […]
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Customs officials at the Port of Arica in Chile intercepted a drug shipment intended for Spain. According to Informe 21, 350 kilos of cocaine were found inside four massive fake rocks. The rocks had been hidden in containers that had been shipped from Bolivia 15 days previously. The weight of the rocks alerted customers officials, […]
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The Brigade of Sexual Offences and Child of the PDI and the OS-9 police looking intently at the subject on Tuesday raped an English teacher of U.S. citizenship Reñaca Mackay College, which has shocked the school community and teachers. Detectives, like the military, following the identification of the alleged perpetrator of the outrage, made intense […]
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Six Bolivians were sentenced to a total of 67 years in prison for crimes of drug trafficking in Chile. 86 kilos of cocaine, valued at 1.29 million pesos, were involved in the case, La Tercera reports. During the first half of last year, officials in Chile learned that the Bolivian Germain Jairo Aguirre Gutierrez was […]
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Police in Chile arrested three people with 115 kilos of marijuana along Route 68. The suspects had picked up the drug near a shopping center in Cerrillos, Emol reports. The police, working on a tip from witnesses who saw the drug exchange, followed the vehicle along Route 28 toward Valparaiso. The suspects attempted to flee […]
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A man was caught in Placeres, Valparaíso, Chile with 140 doses of cocaine during a routine police patrol. According to Soy Valparaiso, the suspect attempted to flee the police to prevent them from noticing him. After he was caught, officials found he was carrying 34 doses of cocaine. Police then inspected his home, in which […]
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A 50-year-old man was arrested in Chillán, Chile with 136 bundles of coca paste. 69 thousand pesos were also seized, Soy Chile reports. The discovery and arrest occurred after police received an order to investigate the shack in which the man lived, in Vicente Perez Rosales, Chillán. The man faces charges of drug micro-trafficking. His […]
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Exercised abroad as a professor of Anthropology. Police service in the population of the Second Precinct of Pozo Almonte, attended to a hotel in the district in which they found the lifeless guest. A professor of Anthropology in the United States, DECH identified as 70-year-old was found dead last night by members of the second […]
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Police in San Felipe, Chile arrested Luis Alberto Fernández Torres (40), alias “Rumpi,” a narco-trafficker wanted for dealing cocaine in the city center and surrounding areas, Mi San Felipe reports. He was arrested on a residential street and has a criminal record of burglary, illegal possession of a firearm, and drug trafficking, among others. 21 […]
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Police in Copiapo, Chile arrested 8 individuals in connection with a drug trafficking ring operating in cities throughout the country. The arrest occurred after one suspect attempted to flee police at a vehicle checkpoint, resulting in a chase and capture. Rectangular packages of drugs were found in the backseat of the truck. The passengers attempted […]
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Security officials stopped a bus belonging to the Pullman Bus company travelling from Africa City to Santiago, Chile on June 16, 2012. During a baggage inspection, a drug-sniffing dog detected a suspicious odor coming from a sports bag belonging to a suspect with the initials J.D.R.O. According to Diario Chañarcillo, ten transparent nylon bags were […]
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Police investigators in Chile discovered and seized 850 kilograms of cocaine bearing “made in Bolivia” labels, the largest cocaine shipment found in the country. According to Los Tiempos, the drugs made their way from Bolivia via an illegal border crossing and were discovered in the Mano del Desierto zone in Antofagasta. The shipment was disguised […]
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INDEPENDENCE AND SOVEREIGNTY COMMITTEE FOR LATIN AMERICA (CISPAL) CEPRID Chile, the homeland of O’Higgins, Mistral, Neruda, Allende and a hundred others, is poised to become a staunch ally of the empire in South America. The Southern Command of the Armed Forces of the United States (SOUTHCOM), at a cost of over $ 500,000 built Fort […]
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Hundreds of people were facing the Chilean police on Sunday in protest against a tribute to former Chilean dictator Augusto Pinochet supporters who performed in a theater in Santiago, found a journalist. “Murderer, Murderer!” Chanted the demonstrators who were located near the theater Caupolican in downtown Santiago to demonstrate against the tribute that included the […]
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Chile’s Supreme Court rejected the appeal by Milestone Clan Rapa Nui, which called for the restoration of judiciary via ancestral lands in Easter Island, which they consider usurped by the Chilean company “Hotel Hanga Roa.”The Court’s reasoning Chilean continental effects for all the Rapa Nui, as it relies on the false premise that there are […]
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Brazil’s TAM and Chile’s LAN each reported a 22 percent plunge in first-quarter profits, citing rises in fuel costs and other expenses among other factors. Another Brazilian airline, GOL, laid off 1,200 people to cut costs. Aerolineas Argentinas continues to bleed money, receiving more than $200 million in subsidies during the first quarter of this […]
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Authorities in the region of Valparaiso at noon today closed the border crossing at Los Libertadores preventing traffic problems due to the arrival of bad weather front in the central region. The measure became effective before they begin the heavy snowfalls are expected in the mountainous area to prevent vehicles from being trapped in intermediate […]
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Two people were arrested and 180 kilos of marijuana were seized after a police operation in the Tocopilla, María Elena and Calama communities in Chile, La Tercera reports. The drug bust began May 25, 2012, when police were patrolling route 240. At around kilometer 10, police spotted a vehicle travelling west at 126 kilometers per […]
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The storm of rain and wind that affects the central and southern Chile on Saturday has left one dead, nearly 2,000 people homeless and 337,000 without power in their homes, officials said. Speaking to the press, the president of Chile, Sebastián Piñera, lamented the death of a woman because of the storm and said the […]
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Maule Farmers protest against judicial authorization to Endesa to use water from the Laguna del Maule reservoir, marched again on Wednesday with a new take Route 5 south near Talca. The group settled with barricades at the height of the bridge Maule and blocked the road in both directions until at least 11:30 pm when […]
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In the face of a looming national energy crisis, Chile’s President Sebastián Piñera is pushing to diversify his country’s energy matrix, though technical limitations and ongoing environmental protests look to derail his administration’s plans. The government released a National Energy Strategy report February 28 outlining how Chile would meet its growing power needs over the […]
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An earthquake of 6.3 richter according to the Seismological Service of the University of Chile was recorded at 22:09 hours in the Aysen region. The epicenter was located 564 kilometers west of Melinka, 10 kiómetros deep. The Geological Survey (USGS) estimated at 6.2 intensity quake. “This has not been perceived or Coyhaique and Puerto Aysen […]
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At least 30 sea lions were found dead on a beach in northern Chile for reasons not yet determined, government sources confirmed today the National Fisheries Service (Sernapesca). The finding of these mammals, which can weigh 250 kilos, occurred last week at the beach of Punta de Choros, about 570 kilometers north of Santiago, in […]
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Explosive attack Itaú Bank branch in Concepcion We are at war, no claim nor ask, just attack. How much more could complain without taking our own hands, with only items that are undelivered obligations and rights from our own bowels force to develop us freely and take life in our hands? Unx is defined by […]
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In the main square of Santiago, police broke up a network of pimps who recruited children in the streets, to participate in festivals distorted. According to initial reports, indicates that juveniles after midnight begin to see scenes sector prostitution and brought to San Antonio Street as the area in which transactions were made. The arrested […]
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Chile reached 62.66% in the call rate of adoption of information technology, which measures how close the country to access the average of OECD countries, ie a gap of 37% the parameter used to measure ourselves in the world. But after a year, the figures are more encouraging: only analyzing data from the first half […]
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Study: Chile is one of the countries with the highest incidence in breast cancer The number of deaths from this disease will double by the year 2030 to 74,000 per year at the regional level. Important results on the incidence and coverage for the treatment of breast cancer in Latin America was presented by leading […]
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Event Time 2012-05-10 02:13:56 UTC 2012-05-09 18:13:56 UTC-08:00 at epicenter 2012-05-09 19:13:56 UTC-07:00 system time Nearby Cities 349km (216mi) WSW from Hanga Roa, Chile 3732km (2318mi) W from Lebu, Chile 3755km (2333mi) W from Canete, Chile 3757km (2334mi) W from Curanilahue, Chile 1788km (1111mi) ESE from Adamstown, Pitcairn USGS SOURCE
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The Peruvian red cheese, produced in southern city of Lluta, in Arequipa will be exported to Chile and the United States, Arequipa’s mayor Elio Begazo said Wednesday. Begazo explained that currently the product goes through a standardization process in order to be exported to said countries. He recalled that farming is the main activity of […]
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Chilean Government announced its intention to expand the Salas y Gómez marine reserve and to create a smaller reserve in Hanga Roa Bay – the harbor right off the main town and capital of historic Easter Island. This new marine conservation plan for Easter Island is set to be established by the end of the […]
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The Chilean courts began today a lawsuit against eight people, including Patrick Rosende exsubsecretario Interior and former director of the National Emergency Office, Carmen Fernandez for the failed tsunami warning that the February 27, 2010 caused 156 deaths and 25 missing . The Seventh Court of Guarantee of Santiago opened a formal indictment (charging) of […]
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The address of the Hospital of La Serena confirmed a case of infection with the bacterium Clostridium difficile, the same as in the former Central Hospital of Santiago, killing 26 patients. The address of the Hospital of La Serena confirmed a case of infection with the bacterium Clostridium difficile, the same as in the former […]
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From 59 seconds to 23:59 local time on Saturday shall comply with the clocks to make way for a four-month season. Chile began its new winter schedule with the delay of an hour clockwise, allowing energy savings in the country. According to the Hydrographic and Oceanographic Service of the Navy, from 59 seconds to 23:59 […]
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The government of Chile to Peru sent a report on a demonstration by hikers in the capital Santiago , according to pointed out, was reduced and had no effect. This was announced by Foreign Minister Rafael Roncagliolo , explaining that in mobilizing about 20 people participated. “According to the report of Chile, has had no […]
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Five masked criminals on Monday raided a shop in the company Entel, located on Columbus Avenue, Las Condes, taking a total of 80 million pesos to mobile handsets. Subjects intimidated employees, guards and some clients who were in the room, then go to the cellar, subtract about 160 cell phones in category “smartphone,” the sergeant […]
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Chilean police arrested a student who assaulted women to steal their underwear, accumulating at home more than 500 of these items, the prosecution said Thursday. The student, 23, whose identity was not released, are assigned a series of assaults and sexual assaults reported during recent months in Los Angeles, about 500 km south of Santiago. […]
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The earthquake of 6.3 magnitude on the Richter scale that struck eight regions of Chile, early yesterday, killing two people due to heart attacks and even recorded several aftershocks, officials said. The victims were Hugo Muñoz Sepulveda, 72, and Luis Orders Tapia, 59, died in the towns of Quillota and Papudo, both in the region […]
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M5.1 – Hacienda La Calera, Chile 2012-04-17 04:03:17 UTC Event Time 2012-04-17 04:03:17 UTC 2012-04-17 01:03:17 UTC-03:00 at epicenter 2012-04-16 21:03:17 UTC-07:00 system time Nearby Cities 41km (25mi) WNW from Hacienda La Calera, Chile 41km (25mi) WSW from La Ligua, Chile 43km (26mi) NW from Quillota, Chile 44km (27mi) N from Vina del Mar, Chile […]
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A police patrol was doing a course of routine surveillance, arrested a man and a woman who, in an identity check on Monday morning, they discovered artifacts that enable the manufacture of at least one bomb, while traveling by the municipality of La Granja, in southern Santiago. The police Major Cristian Toledo, said the arrests […]
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Strong earthquake in Chile struck Cordoba Epicenter was 48 kilometers northeast of Valparaiso and its magnitude was 6.5 degrees on the Richter scale. There were no fatalities. A strong and prolonged shaking of one minute almost woke the central Chilean north, with a magnitude of 6.5 according to the Seismological Service of the U.S., prompting […]
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The system was implemented last August in a camp in Cerrillos, with great success. Now it will be implemented in 19 Latin American countries. The device, which was designed at the Center for Advanced Innovation Viña del Mar, is used since last August at Camp San Jose Cerrillos, which has more than 137,000 liters sanitized, […]
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Chile – Minister of Public Works, Laurence Golborne, gave an assessment of the water situation in the country, which said that the north is the one that still has major problems in terms of low river flow, as the reservoirs have a deficit of 48.7% compared with the historical average. However, the government guaranteed drinking […]
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A 12 year old boy remained hospitalized in very serious condition in a hospital after he attempted suicide after being expelled from school. The boy had been punished because they took a blank element that detonated within the establishment in which he studies, the primary school of San Ramon Arturo Matte, according to the news […]
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Magnitude 4.7 – MAULE, CHILE USGS SOURCE Earthquake Details This event has been reviewed by a seismologist. Magnitude 4.7 Date-Time Friday, April 13, 2012 at 06:13:17 UTC Friday, April 13, 2012 at 02:13:17 AM at epicenter Time of Earthquake in other Time Zones Location 35.132°S, 71.890°W Depth 52.5 km (32.6 miles) Region MAULE, CHILE Distances […]
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