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  Chile - Printer-friendly - MSN Encarta
In the 1993 presidential elections Eduardo Frei Ruiz-Tagle, son of Eduardo Frei Montalva, defeated Arturo Alessandri (son of the former president).
Further elections to the Chamber of Deputies in December 2005 saw the CPD increase its margin slightly with 65 seats, the Alliance slipping slightly with 54.
At the presidential election held in December 2005/January 2006 the victorious candidate was Michelle Bachelet of the CPD.
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  Chilean presidential election, 1970 - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
A presidential election was held in Chile on 4 September 1970.
Because he did not obtain an absolute majority, his election required a further vote by the National Congress of Chile which resulted in Allende assuming the presidency in accordance with the Chilean Constitution of 1925.
Registration and turnout were reasonably consistent with earlier Chilean presidential elections, although both registration and participation have been considerably higher since the restoration of elections, beginning with the election of 1989.
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 Chile - MSN Encarta
The chief development in Chilean foreign relations during this period of Conservative dominance was a series of conflicts with Bolivia and Peru, which were united in a confederation from 1836 to 1839.
In 1925 he was recalled, however, and won approval of a new constitution that established the separation of church and state, made primary education compulsory, and made the cabinet responsible to the president rather than to the Congress.
The 1946 presidential election was won by Gabriel González Videla, a Radical Party leader who was supported by a left-wing coalition.
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 History of Chile - Biocrawler   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-01)
Chilean territory was among the last to be populated in the Americas.
A presidential election was held on December 12, 1999, but none of the six candidates obtained a majority, which led to an unprecedented runoff election on January 16, 2000.
The Chilean cause is adopted by the general populace after the death of Captain Arturo Prat in the Naval battle of Iquique.
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 1970 Chilean presidential election
Because he did not obtain an absolute majority, his election required (and received) a further vote by the National Congress of Chile which resulted in Allende assuming the presidency in accordance with the Chilean Constitution of 1925.
The International Institute for Democracy and Electoral Assistance (IDEA) reports [1] that a total of 2,954,799 votes were cast, from a registered electorate of 3,539,747, giving a turnout of 83.5%.
It has been argued than given that less than the majority of the voters voted for him, Allende did not have a clear "mandate" to embark in the wide reforms put forward on his program.
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 History of Chile - Article from FactBug.org - the fast Wikipedia mirror site
Chilean territory was among the last to be populated in the Americas.
A presidential election was held on December 12, 1999, but none of the six candidates obtained a majority, which led to an unprecedented runoff election on January 16, 2000.
The Chilean cause is adopted by the general populace after the death of Captain Arturo Prat in the Naval battle of Iquique.
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 Augusto Pinochet - Encyclopedia, History, Geography and Biography
In the plebiscite, 55% of the votes rejected the extension of the presidential term, against 42% for "Sí", and again according to the provisions of the constitution, open presidential elections were held the next year, at the same time as congressional elections that would have taken place in either case.
Late in November of 2005, he was deemed fit to stand trial by the Chilean Supreme Court and was indicted on human rights, for the disappearance of six dissidents arrested by Chile's security services in late 1974, and again placed under house arrest, on the eve of his 90th birthday.
Late in November of 2005, he was deemed fit to stand trial by the Chilean Supreme Court and was indicted and put under house arrest on tax fraud and passport forgery, but was released on bail; however he remained under house arrest, due to unrelated human rights charges.
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 Radar Tours Country Info: Chile   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-01)
Chileans elected a new president and the majority of members of a two-chamber congress on December 14, 1989.
According to the 1992 Chilean census, a total of 10.5% of the total population declared themselves indigenous, irrespective of whether they currently practiced or spoke a native culture and language; almost one million people (9.7% of the total) declared themselves Mapuche, 0.6% declared to be Aymara, and a 0.2% reported as Rapanui.
On the other hand, although emigration of Chileans has decreased during the last decade, it is estimated that 857,781 Chileans live abroad, 50.1% of those being in Argentina, 13.3% in the United States and a 4.9% in Sweden.
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 directopedia : Directory : Sports : Soccer : CONMEBOL : Chile
A presidential election was held on December 12, 1999, but none of the six candidates obtained a majority, which led to an unprecedented runoff election on January 16, 2000 between Ricardo Lagos and Joaquín Lavín of the rightist Alliance for Chile.
The Chilean Army is 45,000 strong and is organized with an Army headquarters in Concepcion, seven divisions throughout its territory, an Air Brigade in Rancagua, and a Special Forces Command in Colina.
The Chilean Army is one of the most professional armies in the world and has one of the most technologically advanced armies in Latin America.
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 Chile
The Chilean Army is 45,000 strong and is organized with an Army headquarters in Santiago, seven divisions throughout its territory, an Air Brigade in Rancagua, and a Special forces Command in Colina.
The Chilean Army is one of the most professional armies in the world and has one of the most technologically advanced armies in Latin America.
Chileans descended from non-Spanish European nationalities are not very numerous, but include a small yet influential number of Irish and English immigrants that arrived in Chile during the Spanish colonial period, and during the 19th century.
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 chile   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-01)
Chilean literature has produced writers of international reputation, including Nobel Prize-laureate poets Gabriela Mistral (1945) and Pablo Neruda (1973), who was also an important political figure from the left.
The Presidential election held on December 14, 1989, was won by Patricio Aylwin, a Christian Democratic Party candidate who headed a coalition ticket.
In 1994, new elections were held and Eduardo Frei- Ruiz Tagle, also a member of the Christian Democrat Party was elected to the presidency on behalf of a coalition better-known as Concertación.
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 Chile - CONSTITUTIONAL HISTORY
Chilean politics changed dramatically, however, as a multiparty system emerged without exact parallel in Latin America, one in which strong Marxist parties vied with conservative parties, while pragmatic centrist parties attempted to mediate.
With the 1964 election of a Christian Democratic government under the leadership of President Eduardo Frei Montalva (1964-70), Chile embarked on an experiment in reformist politics intended to energize the economy while redistributing wealth.
Frei and his colleagues were determined to modernize the country through the introduction of significant social reforms, including an extensive agrarian reform that would bring an end to the concentration of economic power in the hands of rural landlords.
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 History of Chile
The chief development in Chilean foreign relations during this period of Conservative dominance was a series of conflicts with neighboring countries—first with Bolivia and Peru in 1836, and then with Argentina, beginning in 1843.
In 1976 Chilean opposition leader and former foreign minister Orlando Letelier and his U.S. secretary were killed by a car bomb while in Washington, D.C. At the time, the assassinations were widely believed to have been ordered by Chile's secret police.
In the 1993 elections Christian Democrat Eduardo Frei Ruiz-Tagle, son of Eduardo Frei Montalva, was elected president.
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 CHAPTER 2
Moreover, British capital was deeply involved in the Chilean penetration of the nitrate fields of Peru and Bolivia, a development that led eventually to the War of the Pacific (1879-1883), in which Chile defeated Peru and Bolivia and took from those countries the provinces of Arica, Tarapacá and Antofagasta (Kinsbruner, 1973, Ch.
Thus, when elections were held, they were routinely controlled by local notables linked to one of the national parties, and ultimately by the sitting President acting in concert with his party.
After the mid-term elections of 1946, the opposition successfully demanded effective control of the electoral tribunal as a condition for participation in the 1948 presidential elections.
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 Chile
The Chilean economy finished 2004 with growth of 6.1% and its economic growth in 2005 was 6.3%.
Chilean imports increased 30% in 2004, to $23 billion, reflecting a positive change in consumer demand and economic recovery.
Chileans descended from non-Spanish European immigrants include an influential number of descendants of Irish immigrants which arrived in Chile during the Spanish colonial period and descendants of English immigrants, arrived during and after independence (mainly merchants and sailors).
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 Spotlight on Chile: Recent History   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-01)
In 1829, as a result of the presidential election, a revolution developed in which the conservatives defeated the liberals, and this upheaval led to great public support regarding the need for a strong government.
In 1925, under the leadership of Jorge Alessandria, power between the executive and legislative branches was equalized.
Chileans don't talk much about what happened in 1973 anymore, but most everyone has some opinion as to where the country should go next.
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 Chile information - Search.com
Chileans voted in the first round of presidential elections on December 11 2005.
In 2005, the Chilean congress passed a reform to create two new regions, one in the north, around the city of Arica, and one in the south centered around Valdivia (aka Region of the Rivers).
The Chilean Army is 45,000 strong and is organized with an Army headquarters in Santiago, seven divisions throughout its territory, an Air Brigade in Rancagua, and a Special Forces Command in Colina.
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 SIM Country Profile: Chile
The position of the Chilean government was consolidated in the late nineteenth century by the pacification of the Mapuche Indians and an agreement with Argentina which gave the Strait of Magellan to Chile.
He won the election by such a narrow margin, however, that he was unable to gain broad-based backing for his policies.
A presidential plebiscite in 1988 resulted in a defeat for Pinochet and an accelerated transition to democracy.
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 Latin American Issues - Volume 1
As the Chilean economy grew and the country expanded to the north and south, the Liberals developed a social base in provincial mining and commercial interests, and continued to pressure the centralized authority of the landholders of the Central Valley.
Election was by proportional representation, a modification of the D'Hondt system (which aided larger parties and generally resulted in under-representation of splinter parties and of the Left, but which also allowed more party splits than a majority system).
Although the election of Allende depended electoral competition and the strategies of the various parties, neither the opposition to Allende nor his supporters relied solely on electoral competition, but rather on the strength of their respective economic power.
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 HISTORY OF CHILE
The chief development in Chilean foreign relations during this period of Conservative dominance was a series of conflicts with neighbouring countries-first with Bolivia and Peru in 1836, and then with Argentina, beginning in 1843.
In December 1989, political parties (left, center-left, center, and center-right) united to oppose Pinochet in Chile's first presidential election in 17 years, during which voters chose the Christian Democratic candidate, Patricio Aylwin Azócar, in a party coalition, known as the Concertacion.
In the 1993 presidential elections Eduardo Frei Ruiz-Tagle, son of Eduardo Frei Montalva (a former president), defeated Arturo Alessandri (son of the former president).
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 Chile, Allende, and the Popular Unity: Research Paper
With the CIA running against Allende in the three elections he lost, the socialist senator continued to rally support, but one matter was made clear, and this was a matter of strategy.
The government’s distribution of political offices within the presidential cabinet, regional offices, and municipal sectors was directly proportional to the representation of the members of its coalition.
Although I’ve already discussed the election of Allende, the congressional election of March 4th served as an electoral battleground between the leftist governing coalition and the opposition, in 1973.
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 Latin American Issues - Volume 1
As the Chilean economy grew and the country expanded to the north and south, the Liberals developed a social base in provincial mining and commercial interests, and continued to pressure the centralized authority of the landholders of the Central Valley.
Election was by proportional representation, a modification of the D'Hondt system (which aided larger parties and generally resulted in under-representation of splinter parties and of the Left, but which also allowed more party splits than a majority system).
Although the election of Allende depended electoral competition and the strategies of the various parties, neither the opposition to Allende nor his supporters relied solely on electoral competition, but rather on the strength of their respective economic power.
webpub.alleg.edu /group/LAS/LatinAmIssues/Articles/Vol1/LAI_vol_1.htm   (15697 words)

  
 Economic History of Chile
1933-1938: Alessandri enacts a new labor code and the 1925 constitution, which codifies separation of church and state and increases the directly elected president's powers.
Chilean workers demand reforms in light of chronic inflation, rising unemployment, and declining real income.
Unemployment soars, as does the number of Chileans living in poverty.
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 Interactivist Info Exchange | Aufheben,"Picket and Pot-Banger Together: Class Re-Composition in Argentina"   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-01)
With his election in 1916, the Radical President Yrigoyen sought a conciliatory approach with the working class and started a ‘special relationship’ with the unions of FORA IX.
Presidential appeals for reconciliation to the 'genuine-and-peaceful' workers were answered with armed defiance both in the coastal towns and in the countryside, and scabs sent from Buenos Aires were shot at by the workers of Rio Gallegos.
In 1974 the average Chilean wage fell by one half and unemployment exploded, while the welfare system, which was based on the profits of the national industries, collapsed.
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 Discover the Wisdom of Mankind on Chile   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-01)
She won the 2006 runoff election against central-right-wing candidate Sebastián Piñera after none of the 4 main candidates obtained the necesary 50% of the votes in the first round of voting.
In 2005, after 3 democratic elections for presidential periods, over 50 reforms were approved, which eliminated the remaining undemocratic areas of the text, such as the existence of non-elected Senators (institutional senators, or senators for life) and the inability of the President to remove the Commander in Chief of the Armed Forces.
In 2005, the Chilean congress passed a reform to create two new regions, one in the north, around the city of Arica, and one in the South centered around Valdivia (aka Region of the Rivers).
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 Travel in Santiago - Chile - History - WorldTravelGate.net®-
The Liberals gained power with the election in 1920 of former minister of the interior Arturo Alessandri Palma, but he was unable to gain adoption of his proposals for reform.
Following additional coups and changes of administration, Alessandri was elected president again in 1932 and served until the end of his term in 1938.In the election of 1938 a liberal government, with Radical Party member Pedro Aguirre Cerda as president, was elected by a coalition of democratic groups united in a popular front.
As the presidential election of 1970 approached, leftist opposition united to form a Popular Unity coalition; it nominated Salvador Allende Gossens, who waged his campaign on a platform that promised full nationalisation of all basic industries, banks, and communications.
www.americatravelling.net /chile/santiago/santiago_history.htm   (2027 words)

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