The Chilean Government implemented a further liberalization of capital markets in 2001, and there is further pending legislation proposing further liberalization.

* National Day or Dieciocho, the date of the first Government Junta after the Chilean independence on February 12, 1818 ( Chile )

The Allende Government also sought to bring the arts ( both serious and popular ) to the mass of the Chilean population by funding a number of cultural endeavours.

This decision was disputed by the Chilean Government and has been a source of conflict until present times.

At the onset of the Chilean War of Independence, the First Government Junta was proclaimed on 18 September 1810, marking Chile's first step toward independence.

He was conferred the ' Order of Bernardo O ' Higgins-Great Official ' - by the Chilean Government for work in Chile.

On 27 December 1998, he wrote, at the request of the democratic government of Chile, an official letter to the British prime minister Tony Blair stating that " the Chilean Government considers it an offence to its territorial sovereignty as a nation the fact of being deprived of the power to judge its own citizens " through the detention of Pinochet in Britain.

The Chilean President Michelle Bachelet paid Prime Minister Manning and the Government of Trinidad and Tobago a visit in 2010.

The TAC for the industrial fleet is determined each year by the Chilean Government based on biological studies carried out by both public and private scientific bodies.

During the Bolivian Gas War the dispute rose again, as most Bolivians, including Evo Morales ( who would go on to become president ), opposed the future export of Bolivian gas through Chilean territory, which the Government and foreign companies wanted.

The Chilean Government organized a second expedition, which defeated the Supreme Protector at the Battle of Yungay ( January 20, 1839 ) and forced the dissolution of the Confederation.

Delivered to the Chilean Government, he was imprisoned at Chillán from 1844 until 1846 when he was freed.

By the time the Germans landed 48 British and French merchant seamen from sunken prizes it had become clear to all that World War I had broken out, and Routledge complained sharply of this infringement of neutral Chilean territory to the schoolmaster in his capacity as representative of the Government of Chile ; whilst her husband sailed the Mana to Valparaiso to pass on a similar complaint to the British Consul in Santiago.

Ignacio Domeyko arrived from Poland in the 3rd of June 1838 to educate miners, having been hired by the Chilean Government as the Coquimbo Department's Institute of Chemistry and Mineralogy's professor.

Carlos Gregorio Dávila Espinoza ( September 15, 1887-October 19, 1955 ), was a Chilean political figure, Chairman of Government Junta of Chile in 1932, and Secretary General of the Organization of American States from 1954 until his death in 1955.

Division General Luis Altamirano Talavera ( July 5, 1867 – July 25, 1938 ) was a Chilean military officer, minister, Vice President of the Republic and finally President of the Government Junta of Chile between 1924 and 1925.

This was a major blow for the Chilean Government, and the then Commander of the Chilean Navy resigned his position.

* U. S. Government activity in South America, and its part in the Chilean coup that put dictator Augusto Pinochet in power.

On 14 June 1977, the Chilean Government issued the decree n ° 416 over the baselines ( See Chilean Baselines Map ).

In recent years, the tea has been popularized by Wade Davis ( The Serpent and The Rainbow ), English novelist Martin Goodman in I Was Carlos Castaneda, Chilean novelist Isabel Allende, writer Kira Salak, author Jeremy Narby ( The Cosmic Serpent ), author Jay Griffiths (" Wild: An Elemental Journey "), and radio personality Robin Quivers.

The Concertación coalition has continued to dominate Chilean politics for last two decades.

The Chilean government strongly supports foreign investment in the sector and has modified its mining industry laws and regulations to create a favorable investing environment for foreigners.

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.

Chile has a great diversity of natural landscapes, from the Mars-like landscapes of the hyperarid Atacama Desert to the glacier-fed fjords of the Chilean Patagonia, passing by the winelands backdropped by the Andes of the Central Valley and the old-growth forests of the Lakes District.

The Chilean peso's rapid appreciation against the U. S. dollar in recent years has helped dampen inflation.

Since the U. S .- Chile Free Trade Agreement went into effect on January 1, 2004, U. S .- Chilean trade has increased by 154 %.

The bilateral FTA has inaugurated greatly expanded U. S .- Chilean trade ties, with total bilateral trade jumping by 154 % during the FTA's first three years.

The clash between the Earth's surface plates has also generated the Andes, a geologically young mountain range that, in Chilean territory alone, includes about 620 volcanoes, many of them active.

Though nearby San Antonio has become the country ’ s most commercially important seaport in terms of tonnage moved, the City of Valparaíso remains a vibrant center of Chilean culture.

Since the turn of the 21st century, shipping has increased in the last few decades with fruit exports, increasing opening of the Chilean economy to world commerce, and larger-scale, Post-Panamax ships that do not fit the Panama Canal.

During recent years, Mr. Temkin has used his influential Sunday column in El Mercurio de Valparaíso to advocate for many major policy issues, such as the creation of a " Ley Valparaíso " ( Valparaíso Law ) in the Chilean Congress, and the possibility that the Chilean government must guarantee funding for the preservation of Valparaíso's beloved funicular elevators.

* It has also been the residence of many artists, such as Chilean poet Pablo Neruda and Nicaraguan poet Rubén Darío.

The 1st Armored Cavalry Regiment " Grenadiers " ( Regimiento de Caballeria Blindada n. 1 " Granaderos ") of the Chilean Army is active since 1827, has fought in every major battle of the Chilean Army in the 19th century and since 1840 and 1907 has served as the Escort Regiment to the President of Chile in every important national occasion.

The Chilean flag has had varying interpretations, due to its single star and bar, supporting the idea that the star represents the unitary state instead of a federation.

Nowadays, Kreutzberger has stopped flying back and forth between Miami and Chile each week to tape both the Chilean and the international shows and his daughter Vivian is becoming quite popular as the host of the Chilean show.

Kreutzberger has also hosted Chilean versions of ¿ Quién merece ser millonario?

Since colonial times, the Chilean culture has been a mix of Spanish colonial elements and indigenous ( essentially Mapuche ) culture.

The Chilean alternative duo The Paintings formed in Santiago de Chile, 2009 by Eija-Lynn and Hieronymus released their debut album Tiny Tales Of Tides & Suns in February 2010.

Chilean magnetite iron ore deposits within the Atacama Desert have also formed alluvial accumulations of magnetite in streams leading from these volcanic formations.

La Ley ( Spanish for " The Law ") was a Grammy Award and two-time Latin Grammy Award-winning Chilean rock band formed by Andrés Bobe and Rodrigo Aboitiz with Mauricio Claveria, Beto Cuevas and Luciano Rojas.

More of a mystery at time was the extent of the Social Welfare Minister's involvement in the recently formed Argentine Anticommunist Alliance ( Triple A ), a paramilitary force that, between late 1973 and late 1974, had already carried out nearly 300 murders, including that of former President Arturo Frondizi's brother, Professor Silvio Frondizi, Congressman Rodolfo Ortega Peña, activist Father Carlos Mugica, Buenos Aires Province Assistant Police Chief Julio Troxler, former Córdoba Vice-Governor Atilio López, and former Chilean Army head Carlos Prats.

Infantry regiment of the Chilean Army, formed in Lurín District | Lurín, south of Lima, in January 1881

* Chilean Agrarian Party ( 1931 – 1945 ), a political party in Chile, formed in 1931 and dissolved in 1945 to form the Agrarian Labor Party

Nowadays, Cumbia is gaining new attention as the result of an emergence of acts formed by younger musicians usually labelled as " La Nueva Cumbia Chilena " ( The new Chilean Cumbia ), including bands such as Chico Trujillo, Banda Conmocion, Juana Fe, Sonora Barón, Sonora de Llegar, Chorizo Salvaje, Sonora Tomo como Rey, Villa Cariño, Sepamoya, Guachupe among others.

Over the decades, the college has formed many influential leaders in Chilean society.

On 18 September 1810, in the absence of the Spanish monarch, a national government ( primera junta nacional de gobierno ) was formed from which sprung the struggle for Chilean Independence.

Intraplate volcanism generated from the Easter and Juan Fernández hotspots has formed many Chilean islands, including Isla Salas y Gómez, Easter Island, and the Juan Fernández Islands.

Some of his views are close to those of the Communist Party of Chile ( with which his party formed an electoral front in the coalition Juntos Podemos Más ( English: Together we can do more ) in the Chilean presidential elections of 2005.

Illapu are a Chilean folk and andean musical ensemble that was formed in 1971 in Antofagasta, in northern Chile, by the brothers José Miguel, Jaime, Andrés and Roberto Márquez Bugueño.

Illapu was formed in 1971 in the northern Chilean town of Antofagasta.

On January 20, 1839, the alliance formed Chilean Army led by Chilean General in Chief Manuel Bulnes and force of Peruvians opposed to Santa Cruz, decisively defeated the Confederate Army commanded by Santa Cruz after six hours of combat in the battlefield of Yungay, in northern Peru, 200 km north of Lima.