Activists believe that conservative attitudes are changing, finding greater public tolerance as Chile's Congress debates striking " offenses to morals and good customs " clauses " that police have used to harass gays, even for behavior such as holding hands in public ".

After the 1970 election, the Track I operation attempted to incite Chile's outgoing president, Eduardo Frei Montalva, to persuade his party ( PDC ) to vote in Congress for Alessandri.

Ibáñez had the support of Chile's Conservative party, Liberal Party, National Socialist party, Popular Socialist Vanguard and the majority of the independents.

Unión Demócrata Independiente ( UDI ) is Chile's largest party, and also the one that grouped most of the regime's supporters although the party has since distanced itself from it.

At the last legislative elections, 11 December 2005, the party won 5. 1 % of the popular vote, but as a result of Chile's binomial electoral rules, no seats.

After Chile's return to democracy in 1990, the party was resurrected.

President Aguirre Cerda's two natural successors were Juan Antonio Ríos and Gabriel González Videla, both members of his Radical Party, while the right-wings ' coalition was united by a common candidate, General Carlos Ibáñez del Campo, who had the support of Chile's Conservative party, Liberal Party, National Socialist party, Popular Socialist Vanguard and the majority of the independents.

In the 1930s, the National Socialist Movement of Chile gained seats in Chile's parliament and attempted a coup d ' état that resulted in the Seguro Obrero massacre of 1938.

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

* Audio clip-' Chicago Boys ' Leave Lasting Legacy on Chile's Economy, National Public Radio

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

On March 31, 2010 he was designated President of Chile's National Innovation Council for Competitiveness by President Sebastián Piñera.

On March 31, 2010 he was designated President of Chile's National Innovation Council for Competitiveness by President Piñera.

* Chile's National Ballet, since 1945

TVN ( Spanish Televisión Nacional de Chile, in English: National Broadcasting of Chile, literally in English: National Television of Chile ) is Chile's state-owned television station.

The Senate of the Republic of Chile is the upper house of Chile's bicameral National Congress, as established in the current Constitution of Chile.

The Chamber of Deputies meets in Chile's National Congress located in the port city of Valparaíso, some 120 km west of the capital, Santiago.

Puerto Williams, since 1982, is considered an urban entity by Chile's National Statistics Institute ( INE ), although the department itself classifies a city to be an urban entity with more than 5, 000 residents

Chile's National Commission on Political Imprisonment and Torture ( Comisión Nacional sobre Prisión Política y Tortura ) concluded in 2004 that torture had been a systematically implemented policy of the government, and recommended reparations.

Chile's First National Fleet and the Academy for Young Midshipmen ( predecessor of the current Naval Academy ) were founded, as were the Marine Corps and the Supply Commissary.

The threat from the MIR was underlined by the discovery at the end of May of a guerrilla training camp in the southern province of Valdivia. Beginning in March 1968, a series of MIR bomb attacks took place in various parts of the country that targeted among others, the U. S. consulate, the Chilean-American Institute in Rancagua, the main office of the Christian Democratic Party, the office of Chile's largest-selling El Mercurio newspaper and the residence of senator Francisco Bulnes of the National Party.

Sebastián Piñera and his Cabinet ( government ) | Council of Ministers in Chile's National Historical Museum.

Piñera announced what he calls his " cabinet of unity " on Tuesday, February 9, 2010, at 18: 00 hours ( local time ), in Chile's National Historical Museum.

What had accounted for virtually 50 % of Chile's Gross National Product fell to almost zero within a few decades.

" On August 2, 2010, Harold Mayne-Nicholls, president of Chile's Asociación Nacional de Fútbol Profesional, announced that Bielsa will remain the coach of the Chilean National Selection until at least 2015.

He was a Marxist physician and member of Chile's Socialist Party, who headed the " Popular Unity " ( UP or " Unidad Popular ") coalition of the Socialist, Communist, Radical, and Social-Democratic Parties, along with dissident Christian Democrats, the Popular Unitary Action Movement ( MAPU ), and the Independent Popular Action.

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.

* Radomiro Tomic, politician, one of the most prominent leaders of Chile's Christian Democrat Party.

UP's leader, Salvador Allende, was a Marxist who co-founded Chile's Socialist Party.

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.

During the first quarter of 1973, Chile's economic problems became extremely serious.

They specifically attacked El Mercurio in the song " Mr. Right " about how that newspaper created propaganda against Allende and hinted the Chilean coup of 1973 where Chile's current president ( Salvador Allende ) of that time was mysteriously killed by ( depending on the sources ) himself or the army Pinochet commanded.

In August 2007, a Catholic priest, Luis Jorquera, then chaplain at a military detention center set up in Chile's north after September 11, 1973, was charged with involvement in the Caravan of Death.

Chile's response to the declarations made by General Bayas were made the following day on March 22, 2005.

The Supreme Director of Chile was the seat in charge of Chile's administration following the independence from Spain in 1810, until 1826.

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

According to the CIA World Factbook, during the early 1990s, Chile's " reputation as a role model for economic reform " was strengthened when the democratic government of Patricio Aylwin, who took over from the military in 1990, deepened the economic reform initiated by the military government.

During the 2000 PBS documentary The Commanding Heights ( based on the book ), Friedman continued to argue that criticism over his role in Chile missed his main contention that freer markets resulted in freer people, and that Chile's unfree economy had caused the military government.

On March 24, Peru responded to Chile and Bolivia by proposing that the Peruvian Congress debate both Chile's neutrality proposal and the Bolivian request for military action under the alliance on April 24.

The University of Magallanes was established in 1981 during the neoliberal reforms of the Chile's military regime as the successor of Universidad Técnica del Estado's Punta Arenas section.

Juan Manuel Guillermo Contreras Sepúlveda ( born May 4, 1929 ) is a Chilean military officer and the former head of DINA, Chile's secret police during the dictatorship of General Augusto Pinochet.

Almost all of Chile's presidents graduated from the University of Chile, including all of those in the 20th century with the exception of Eduardo Frei Montalva ( Pontifical Catholic University of Chile ), General Carlos Ibáñez del Campo and former military dictator General Augusto Pinochet Ugarte.

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

The University of Magallanes was established in 1981 during the neoliberal reforms of the Chile's military regime as the successor of Universidad Técnica del Estado's Punta Arenas section.

In 1998, 25 years after Jorge Peña Hen's assassination by Chile's military coup officials, another version was re-made in La Serena.

Chile's former military ruler, Augusto Pinochet, was placed under house arrest in connection with the kidnapping of at least three dissidents by the former military ruler's security services.