It mostly uses seaports in eastern Argentina and Uruguay for international trade because its diplomatic relations with Chile have been suspended since 1978.

( Christianity, a public holiday in Austria, Belgium, Benin, Bosnia, Burundi, Cameroon, Chile, Colombia, Croatia, Cyprus, France, Germany, Greece, Guatemala, Hungary, Italy, Ivory Coast, Lebanon, Liechtenstein, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Macedonia, Malta, Mauritius, Paraguay, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Senegal, Seychelles, Slovenia, Spain, Switzerland, Togo, and Vanuatu ), and its related observances:

Additionally, Brazil has no contested territorial disputes with any of its neighbours and neither does it have rivalries, like Chile and Bolivia have with each other.

The relatively small central area dominates in terms of population and agricultural resources, and is the cultural and political center from which Chile expanded in the late 19th century when it incorporated its northern and southern regions.

Chile declared its independence from Spain on 12 February 1818.

In the War of the Pacific ( 1879 – 83 ), Chile defeated Peru and Bolivia and won its current northern territory.

Chile was the least wealthy realm of the Spanish Crown for most of its colonial history.

Chile won its formal independence when San Martín defeated the last large Spanish force on Chilean soil at the Battle of Maipú on April 5, 1818.

In August 1828, Pinto's first year in office, Chile abandoned its short-lived federalist system for a unitary form of government, with separate legislative, executive, and judicial branches.

The victory over its neighbors gave Chile and its new political system a psychological boost.

As a result of the War of the Pacific with Peru and Bolivia ( 1879 – 1883 ), Chile expanded its territory northward by almost one-third and acquired valuable nitrate deposits, the exploitation of which led to an era of national affluence.

Chile also temporarily resolved its border disputes with Argentina with the Puna de Atacama Lawsuit of 1899, the Boundary treaty of 1881 between Chile and Argentina and the 1902 General Treaty of Arbitration.

The founder of the POS and its best-known leader, Luis Emilio Recabarren, also founded the Communist Party of Chile ( – PCCh ) in 1922.

Immediately after the election, the United States expressed its disapproval and raised a number of economic sanctions against Chile.

In its " Agreement ", on August 22, 1973, the Chamber of Deputies of Chile asserted that Chilean democracy had broken down and called for " redirecting government activity ", to restore constitutional rule.

From the year 2000 onward, Chile completely overhauled its criminal justice system ; a new, US-style adversarial system has been gradually implemented throughout the country with the final stage of implementation in the Santiago metropolitan region completed on June 9, 2001

Through Chile ’ s trade agreements, its agricultural products have gained access to a market controlling 77 % of the world ’ s GDP and by approximately 2012, 74 % of Chilean agribusiness exports will be duty free.

Technology transfer has allowed Chile to build its global competitiveness and innovation and has led to the expansion of production as well as to an increase in average firm size in the industry.

As of 2006, Chile invested only 0. 6 % of its annual GDP in research and development ( R & D ).

Beyond its general economic and political stability, the government has also encouraged the use of Chile as an " investment platform " for multinational corporations planning to operate in the region, but this will have limited value given the developing business climate in Chile itself.

The Government of Chile continues to pay down its foreign debt, with public debt only 3. 9 % of GDP at the end of 2006.

Continuing its export-oriented development strategy, Chile completed landmark free trade agreements in 2002 with the European Union and South Korea.

What started as an elitist political movement against their colonial master, finally ended as a full-fledged civil war between pro-Independence Criollos who sought political and economic independence from Spain and royalist Criollos, who supported the continued allegiance to and permanence within the Spanish Empire of the Kingdom of Chile.

Eduardo Alfredo Juan Bernardo Frei Ruiz-Tagle (; born June 24, 1942 ) is a Chilean politician and civil engineer who was President of Chile from 1994 to 2000.

* Eduardo Frei Ruiz-Tagle ( born 1942 ), Chilean politician and civil engineer, president of Chile from 1994 to 2000, son of the above

It can be imposed to maintain public order ( such as those after the Northeast Blackout of 2003, the 2005 civil unrest in France, the 2010 Chile earthquake and 2011 Egyptian revolution ), or suppress targeted groups.

This one involved the wives of his Generals and officers who, on August 22, 1973, staged a rally in front of his home and called him a coward for not restoring civil order in Chile.

The passengers were Casis Said Atalah, a Palestinian returning home to Chile from a visit to his dying mother ; Jack Gooderham and Harald Pagh, businessmen ; Peter Young, an agent for the British tyre manufacturer Dunlop ; Paul Simpson, a British civil servant ; and Marta Limpert, a Chilean resident of German origin who had been stranded in Germany during the war along with her husband.

Socialist thought in Chile goes back in the mid-19th century, when Francisco Bilbao and Santiago Arcos Arlegui began discourse on civil rights and social equality in Chile.

Moreover, Costa Rica took in many refugees from a range of other Latin American countries fleeing civil wars and dictatorships during the 1970s and 80s – notably from El Salvador, Chile, Argentina, Cuba and recently from Venezuela.

Its ideological origins date back to the Jaime Guzmán's Guildist Movement, born in the Pontifical Catholic University of Chile in 1966, espousing the independence and depoliticization of intermediate bodies of civil society.

* Communism — The legitimacy of a Communist state derives from having won a civil war, a revolution, or from having won an election, such as the Presidency of Salvador Allende ( 1970 – 73 ) in Chile ; thus, the actions of the Communist government are legitimate, authorised by the people.

President José Manuel BalmacedaThe Chilean civil war grew out of political disagreements between the president of Chile, José Manuel Balmaceda, and the Chilean congress.

Born in Santiago, Alessandri studied civil engineering at the University of Chile in Santiago and after graduating in 1919 worked there as a lecturer.

He studied civil engineering at the University of Chile before taking two doctorates at the University of Grenoble in France.

LGBT and minority groups are working to add the words “ sexual orientation ” and “ gender ” in Chile ’ s Constitution to the civil rights and protection clause.

* The three-letter IATA code for Mataveri International Airport in Easter Island, Chile

* Chile, FIPS country code and obsolete NATO country code digram

* Chile ISO country code

*. cl, internet country code top-level domain for Chile

Historian Vicente Fidel López points that " Lautaro " was really a masonic code meaning " Expedition to Chile ", but similarly, Chile was not a military target for Buenos Aires in 1812.

* The code for international direct dial phone calls to Chile.

* Chile, a country in South America ( ISO 3166-1 3-letter country code CHL )

* Chamonate Airport, Copiapó, Chile IATA airport code

The first part is < tt > CL </ tt >, the ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 code of Chile.

* SCL, IATA airport code for Comodoro Arturo Merino Benítez International Airport in Santiago, Chile

. cl is the Internet country code top-level domain ( ccTLD ) for Chile, and Easter Island.

* arn, the ISO 639-2 code for the Mapudungun language, a language isolate spoken in central Chile and west central Argentina

Working in the company ’ s office in Iquique, Chile, he became tired of using hand-operated Morse keys and Wheatstone tape punches, and came up with the idea of a typewriter-style machine that would allow the operator to punch Morse code signals on to paper tape simply by pressing the appropriate character key.

* El Avellanno Airport, Los Ángeles, Chile ( IATA airport code LSQ )

* ARI, the IATA code for Chacalluta International Airport in Arica, Arica and Parinacota Region, Chile

Project FUBELT ( also known as Track II ) is the code name for the secret Central Intelligence Agency ( CIA ) operations that were to prevent Salvador Allende rise to power before his confirmation, and promote a military coup in Chile.

* The IATA code for El Loa International Airport in Calama, Chile

* Carriel Sur International Airport ( IATA airport code ), near Concepción, Chile