Chilean Americans
Overview
A country slightly larger than Texas, Chile is located on the west coast of South America. Its land mass measures 292,258 square miles (756,945 sq. km.) and is bounded by Pe...
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Chile
Republic of Chile
República de Chile
CAPITAL: Santiago
FLAG: The flag, adopted in 1817, consists of a lower half of red and an upper section of white, with a blue square in the upper left...
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Longshoremen and Miners Strike
Chile 1907
Synopsis
The labor stoppage among the longshoremen and miners in Iquique, Chile, in the early twentieth century played a major role in the development of a wo...
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Chile
Chile is located on the western side of the Andes mountain range in the southern cone of the Americas. Its territory covers an area of 756,626 square kilometers (291,893 square miles), about twi...
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Chile is a Spanish speaking country located on the western border of South America. It occupies a very narrow strip of land along the Pacific Ocean. The capital of Chile is Santiago, which is locate...
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Area: 756,096 sq km (291,930 sq mi)Population (2006 est.): 16,436,000Capitals:
Santiago
(national) and
Valparaíso
(legislative)Head of state and government:
Presidents
Ricardo Lagos
Escob...
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Peru asked the International Court of Justice on Wednesday to set its sea boundary through waters claimed by Chile, inflaming a diplomatic dispute with its neighbor.Peru's action, filed before the ...
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Michelle Bachelet has a problem other presidents would love: What to do with billions of dollars overflowing the government's coffers.As the world's biggest copper supplier, Chile is flush with cas...
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Chile's Constitutional Court on Friday halted a four-month-old program that supplies the morning-after pill to girls as young as 14, citing a technicality in the way the program was approved by the...
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TOCOPILLA, Chile (Reuters) - Powerful aftershocks
rattled northern Chile Thursday, startling emergency workers
a day after a large earthquake killed two people and injured
more than 100 in the min...
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PUNTA ARENAS, Chile (Reuters) - The last survivors
of a cruise ship that sank in frigid Antarctic waters two days
ago arrived in southern Chile Sunday, visibly weary but
happy to be alive. The cap...
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Hundreds of supporters of Gen. Augusto Pinochet, many in tears, filed Monday past the brown wooden coffin for the ex-dictator, who was denied a state funeral normally granted to former presidents.W...
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Former Peruvian President Alberto Fujimori must be extradited to Peru to face trial for corruption and human rights violations, including accusations he ordered the death-squad killings of 25 peopl...
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The government on Tuesday said it will resume its program to provide free "morning-after" contraceptives to girls as young as 14, but will also offer them advice by specialists.The program started ...
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Chilean Americans
Chile
Longshoremen and Miners Strike
Chile
Chile
Chile: History, Economy and Culture
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