The Popular Unity platform included the nationalization of U. S. interests in Chile's major copper mines, the advancement of workers ' rights, deepening of the Chilean land reform, reorganization of the national economy into socialized, mixed, and private sectors, a foreign policy of " international solidarity " and national independence and a new institutional order ( the " people's state " or " poder popular "), including the institution of a unicameral congress.

Chile's financial sector has grown quickly in recent years, with a banking reform law approved in 1997 that broadened the scope of permissible foreign activity for Chilean banks.

Juan Gabriel Valdés, Chile's foreign minister in the 1990s, described the Chile Project as " a striking example of an organized transfer of ideology from the United States to a country within its direct sphere of influence ... the education of these Chileans derived from a specific project designed in the 1950s to influence the development of Chilean economic thinking.

On March 14, Alejandro Fierro, Chile's minister of foreign affairs, sent a telegram to the Chilean representative in Lima, Joaquin Godoy, requesting immediate neutrality from the Peruvian government.

As awareness of Chile's favorable growing conditions for viticulture increased so did foreign investment in Chilean wineries.

Chile's influence grew in the disputed zone as miners, some of them backed by Chilean and foreign companies, started to advance northwards establishing mines and port facilities.

Prieto's foreign policy was dominated by Chile's war with Peru between 1836 and 1839.

" According to the British newspaper The Guardian, "... the October 1970 plot against Chile's President-elect Salvador Allende ... was the direct result of a plea for action a month earlier by Donald Kendall, chairman of PepsiCo, in two telephone calls to the company's former lawyer, President Richard Nixon.

The island's only airport, Mataveri International Airport, is served by LAN Airlines, Chile's national carrier, which offers direct flights to Santiago, Papeete and Lima.

Chile's private pension system, with assets worth roughly $ 70 billion at the end of 2006, has been an important source of investment capital for the capital market.

It is Chile's oldest and most prestigious school.

Chile's judiciary is independent and includes a court of appeal, a system of military courts, a constitutional tribunal, and the Supreme Court.

Chile's legal system is civil law based.

* November 14 – Chile's National Library of Congress is founded.

Copper is Chile's single most important export ( more than half of Chile's export receipts were from this sole commodity ).

Chile's territorial shape is among the world's most unusual.

Chile's northern neighbors are Peru and Bolivia, and its border with Argentina to the east, at, is the world's third longest.

More than half of Chile's land surface is volcanic in origin.

Much of Chile's coastline is rugged, with surf that seems to explode against the rocks lying at the feet of high bluffs.

The best known of Chile's Pacific Islands is Easter Island ( Isla de Pascua, also known by its Polynesian name of Rapa Nui ), with a population of 2, 800 people.

As seen in this SeaWiFS image Chile's southern coast is broken into many islands, Fjords and channels of Chile | fjords, channels and twisting peninsulas.

Although Santiago is Chile's official capital, the National Congress of Chile was established in Valparaíso in 1990.

The II Antofagasta Region () is one of Chile's fifteen first-order administrative divisions.

The Atacama Region () is one of Chile's 15 first order administrative divisions.

The IV Coquimbo Region () is one of Chile's 15 first order administrative divisions.

The V Valparaíso Region () is one of Chile's 15 first order administrative divisions.

With the country's third highest population of 1, 539, 852 million in 2002 and third smallest area of, the region is Chile's second most densely populated after the Santiago Metropolitan Region to the southeast.

Chile's largest oil refinery is located in Concón ( on the mouth of the Aconcagua River and about 20 km north of Valparaíso ) and there are two important copper ore refineries: the state owned Ventanas ( on the coast and north of Concón ) and the private works in Chagres, about 55 miles ( 90 km ) inland.

In addition to football ( soccer ), basketball is particularly popular in southern Chile, where it as an indoor sport can be played all year round despite Southern Chile's cold and rainy winters.

Santiago Metropolitan Region or simply Metropolitan Region () is one of Chile's 15 first order administrative divisions.

With an area of and population over 6 million, it is Chile's smallest by area, most populated and most densely populated region.

Metropolitana is Chile's only landlocked region and lies in the Intermediate Depression valley between the Chilean Coast Range and the Andes mountains.

According to the 2010 Index of Economic Freedom ( of the Heritage Foundation, Fraser Institute and WSJ ), Chile's economy is the 10th freest.

Chile's football federation committee, led by Carlos Dittborn and Juan Pinto Durán, toured many countries convincing various football associations about the country's ability to organize the tournament in comparison to Argentina's superior sports infrastructure and prestige.

The capital of Santiago serves as the country's administrative, industrial, commercial, financial and cultural center, producing 41. 5 % of Chile's gross domestic product, according to central bank estimates.

This is Chile's most productive and internationally known wine region, due in large part to its proximity to the country's capital Santiago.

Chile's system went into effect in 1995 and established the boundaries of the country's wine regions and established regulations for wine labels.

The first special session, held on 11 April 2005 at the OAS headquarters in Washington, ended in a tie between Chile's Interior Minister José Miguel Insulza and Mexico's Foreign Minister Luis Ernesto Derbez, and forced the Organization to schedule a second round of elections for 2 May 2005 to end the unprecedented stalemate.

On June 16, 2005, Law 20. 026 was published in Chile's Official Gazette (" Diario Oficial ").

In 1936, the Law Decree 5, 798 changed its name to Pisco Elqui to reinforce Chile's claim to have rights over the alcoholic drink, pisco.

The archipelago administratively belongs to Chile's Valparaíso Region ( which also includes Easter Island ), and more specifically forms one of the nine communes ( comunas ) of the Valparaíso Province named Juan Fernández.

The possibility of Allende winning Chile's 1970 election was deemed a disaster by a US administration which wanted to protect US business interests and prevent any spread of Communism during the Cold War.

During the Aguirre Cerda administration, Ríos was president of Chile's largest bank, the state-owned Caja de Credito Hipotecario, which made mortgage loans to Chilean farmers.

The impact of the 1917 October Revolution in Russia was to give new vigor to Chile's revolutionary movements, which in the 1920s were mostly identified with Communist theory, including the formation of the Communist Party of Chile.

The soil composition of Chile's vineyards varies from the clay dominated landscapes of Colchagua, which is thus heavily planted with the clay-loving Merlot, to the mixture of loam, limestone and sand found in other regions.

In the same year, Telmex bought from MCI Brazil's largest and most important long distance operator, Embratel, acquired Chile's Chilesat, took control of Argentina's Techtel ( operating in Argentina and Uruguay ), of which it already owned 60 %, by purchasing the remaining 40 % from the Techint group, and purchased Argentina's Metrored.

Los Lagos Region (, literally Region of the Lakes ) is one of Chile's 15 regions, which are first order administrative divisions, and comprises four provinces: Chiloé, Llanquihue, Osorno and Palena.

In 1968, Quilapayún participated in the launch of a new record label of La Jota ( Chile's Communist Party Youth Organization ) and here they record their LP X Vietnam which included songs from the Spanish Revolution ; to the surprise of many commercial record labels its release became a nationwide success.

SERPAJ participated in the nonviolent resistance to Chile's 16-year long military dictatorship, which culminates in free elections that restored democracy.

Talcahuano contains Chile's main naval base which is home of the historical relic, the Huáscar, a Peruvian ironclad ship ( British-made ), which was captured in 1879 during the War of the Pacific.

Portales set up a civil militia ( which ended one of the worst stages of militarism in Chile's history ); supported an oligarchic control for landowners, miners, and merchants ; and made Catholicism the state religion.

Universidad de Chile's next cup would be won in 1994 after a spectacular final game for which 20, 000 supporters arrived in the city of El Salvador, a mining town populated by 5, 000 people.

On 29 April 2005, Mexico withdrew its candidate, which allowed Chile's Insulza to be elected in the next special session as Secretary General, with 31 votes, two abstentions and one vote left blank.

Beer saw this as a unique opportunity to implement his ideas of cybernetic management on a national scale, and also sympathized with the stated ideals of Chilean socialism, which aimed to maintain Chile's democratic system and the autonomy of workers instead of imposing a Soviet-style system of top-down command and control.

Its topography includes a small area of Chile's central valley, glaciers, rivers, volcanoes, and the Andes range, which forms the border with Argentina.

Several authors argue that the first community that populated the valleys of Chile's Norte Chico were the Molle people, which initially combined farming with hunting and gathering to become, over time, full time farmers along with the development burnished red pottery, and did work with stone and copper.

Later in 1861 Chile began the occupation of the Araucanía which alarmed Argentine authorities because of Chile's growing influence in the zone.

After a 2-2 tie against Venezuela in Santiago and going to Brazil to lose 2-4 against them, the Chile national football team finally achieved qualification to the 2010 FIFA World Cup by defeating Colombia 4-2 which was also Chile's first ever away win against the Colombian team.