Battalion members received training and support from the United States Central Intelligence Agency both in Honduras and at U. S. military bases and in Chile during the presidency of the dictator Augusto Pinochet.

Once in Lima, he received the invitation of Mariscal Agustín Gamarra to command a Peruvian division, at a time when his country was at war with Chile.

Chile once again received notification of the treaty through another minister in 1877, when Argentina's senate discussed the invitation to join the Peru-Bolivia defensive alliance.

In 2002 he received the Grand Cross of the Belgian Order of the Crown and the Gold and Silver Star of the Japanese Order of the Rising Sun, and in 2003, the Grand Cross of the Order of the Merit of Chile and the Royal Norwegian Order of St. Olav.

As a result of this treaty, Carrera received money and troops, with which he marched towards Chile.

It also operates an international station ( TV Chile ), that is received via satellite around the world, and a news network station called " 24 Horas ".

Among these were Austria, who received 114 vehicles, Canada ( 107 ), Chile ( 140 ), Denmark ( 51 ), Finland ( 139 ), Greece ( 183 ), Norway ( 52 ), Poland ( 128 ), Portugal ( 37 ), Singapore ( 96 ) Spain ( 108 ), Sweden ( 160 ), and Turkey ( 339 ) were among the buyers of the surplus tanks.

He received the National Prize of Sciences of Chile in 1995 and was elected to the Academy of Sciences of the United States in 2005 and was made Honorary Member of the Solvay Institute in Brussels in 2007.

A year later, the murder of 119 opponents abroad was disguised as an internal conflict, the DINA setting up a propaganda campaign to accredit this thesis ( Operation Colombo ), campaign that received diffusion by the leading newspaper in Chile, El Mercurio.

In 1829, when Francisco Antonio Pinto was elected President of Chile, the runner-ups where Francisco Ruiz-Tagle, a liberal federalist, and José Joaquín Prieto, a conservative centralist, who both received the same amount of votes.

Virgin Mobile Latin America ( VMLA ) launched operations in Chile in April 2012, having received regulatory approval from Chile ’ s telecommunications regulator as well as signing an agreement with Movistar, one of the country ’ s leading mobile network operators.

An important number of Peruvian politicians opposed to the idea of the Confederation fled to Chile, where they received support from the powerful Minister Diego Portales.

Within two weeks of release, the album received a Gold certification in Chile, United States, Colombia and Puerto Rico ; and Platinum certification in Mexico and Argentina.

* Chas Gerretsen ( born 1943 ); covered the war in Vietnam, Cambodia and Laos and received the Robert Capa Gold Medal Award for his coverage of the 1973 Coup d ' Etat in Chile.

In October 1972, Chile saw the first of what were to be a wave of confrontational strikes led by some of the historically well-off sectors of Chilean society ; these received the open support of United States President Richard Nixon.

He started the next two games against Honduras and Chile and although his performances in the group stage were described as below-par, he received backing from manager Vicente del Bosque.

After solid performances with Alajuelense and the national team, Fonseca received offers in 2007 from China, Chile, Turkey and the Major League Soccer, but finally settled, as co-owner, player and captain of Municipal Liberia.

Singstad was named 1933 Officer of the Order of the Crown of Belgium, received the 1939 Ridder order of First Class, the 1956 Medal of Honor from the American Society of Engineers and the 1960 Commander of the Order of Merit ( Chile ).

The creation of this new nation was very well received in the south of Peru, since this area was able to benefit fully from the lifting of the previous commercial restrictions, but was bitterly resented by the elite of Lima and the north of Peru, which had traditionally benefited from a close commercial relationship with Chile.

An important number of Peruvian politicians opposed to the idea of the Confederation fled to Chile, where they received support, and this led to the War of the Confederation.

That same year he won the Sindicato de Escritores prize for his first book of poetry, Cortejo y Epinicio ( Cortege and Epinicion ), which received a reputation-making review from the preeminent literary critic of Chile, Hernán Díaz Arrieta ( known as “ Alone ”).

Unlike Yokoyama's Tetsujin 28-go, the series never received a U. S. broadcast, but was aired in Italy ( Sally la Maga ), French-speaking Canada ( Minifée ), Poland ( Sally Czarodziejka – the Polish version was based on the Italian version ) and South America ( Bolivia, Chile, Paraguay, Peru, as La princesa Sally ).

Under the Tacna-Arica compromise, Chile kept Arica, while Peru reacquired Tacna and received USD $ 6 million indemnity and other concessions.

However, these claims were given up in about 1870 during the War of the Pacific between Chile, the allied Bolivia and Peru, in a diplomatic deal to keep Argentina out of the war.

Chile also claims about of Antarctica, although all claims are suspended under the Antarctic Treaty.

Marker had been working on a film about Chile with ISKRA since 1973.

The Juan Fernández Islands ( Spanish: Archipiélago Juan Fernández ) are a sparsely inhabited island group reliant on tourism and fishing in the South Pacific Ocean, situated about off the coast of Chile, and is composed of three main volcanic islands ; Robinson Crusoe Island, Alejandro Selkirk Island and Santa Clara Island, the first two being formerly called Más Adentro and Más Afuera respectively.

Chile, Uruguay, and several areas in the South Pacific have a higher percentage of Mormons than the United States ( which is at about 2 %).

* Primary scientific data was collected in Punta Arenas, Chile, using a Brewer spectro-photometer, and " These results indicate that during the time when ozone depletion in the Antarctica takes place, an increase in UV-B radiation reaching the Earth surface affected the American continent at latitudes about parallel 50 ° S ."

* January 24 – An earthquake kills 30, 000 in Chile, and razes about.

* October 13 – Uruguayan Air Force Flight 571: A Fairchild FH-227D passenger aircraft transporting a rugby union team crashes at about 14, 000 ' in the Andes mountain range, near the Argentina / Chile border.

* March 3 – An 8. 0 on the Richter magnitude scale earthquake hits Santiago and Valparaíso in Chile leaving 177 dead, 2, 575 hurt, 142, 489 destroyed houses and about a million people homeless.

Tórshavn is among the cloudiest places in the world, with significant sunshine records at only about 2. 4 hours of sunshine per day ; however no data whatsoever exist for places such as the Aleutian Islands or southern Chile which may have even less sun.

In August 1973, a constitutional crisis occurred, and the Supreme Court of Chile publicly complained about the inability of Allende government to enforce the law of the land.

* The Chicago Conspiracy-A film about the influence of the Chicago Boys and radical currents in Chile against their legacy

The northern two-thirds of Chile lie on top of the telluric Nazca Plate, which, moving eastward about ten centimeters a year, is forcing its way under the continental plate of South America.

Since Chile extends from a point about north of the Tropic of Capricorn to a point hardly more than north of the Antarctic Circle, a broad selection of the Earth's climates can be found in this country.

Southern Chile stretches from below the Bío-Bío River at about 37 ° south latitude to Chacao channel at about 42 ° south latitude.

This article is about the demographic features of Chile, including population density, ethnicity, economic status and other aspects of the population.

Football was introduced to Chile by English immigrants, and the first private Catholic school in Chile was founded by French immigrants in Valparaíso: Le Collège des Sacrés Cœurs ( The Sacred Hearts School ) which has been operating for about 170 years.

While fewer than 25 different species of hummingbirds have been recorded from the United States and fewer than 10 from Canada and Chile each, Colombia alone has more than 160 and the comparably small Ecuador has about 130 species.

Unable to publicly voice their grievances to the government about their missing loved ones, for fear that they would " go missing " too, the women of Chile would pin photos of their " disappeared " relatives on their clothing, and dance in silent outrage against the government in public places.

* From the Seafloor to the Volcano's Top Video about the work of the Collaborative Research Center ( SFB ) 574 Volatiles and Fluids in Subduction Zones in Chile by GEOMAR I Helmholtz Centre for Ocean Research Kiel.

Domestic film production in Chile is still small but dynamic, it has been steadily growing since 1990 and the country now produces about 20 motion pictures annually.

I calmed down about halfway through ' Voodoo Chile.