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Beautiful Chile
'Water of Life' by Daniel Kordan.
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Solar PV Achieving Grid Parity in Chile
Chile's one of the world's fastest growing energy markets, thanks in large measure to reforms that center on three guiding tenets: enhancing energy security, boosting economic efficiency and assuring environmental sustainability.
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Chile takes step toward cannabis decriminalisation
Chile has taken a step forward in decriminalising the use of cannabis after the lower house of congress approved by a wide margin a bill that seeks to change the law in the South American country. Although socially conservative Chile is not following Uruguay’s lead on full legalisation, it is considering decriminalising it for personal use and cultivation.
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Powerful 7.9-Magnitude Quake Shakes Chile Capital
The U.S. Geological Survey reports the quake had a preliminary magnitude of 7.9. Chilean authorities recorded it as 7.2.
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13th October 2010 - Chilean miners are rescued after 69 days underground
The last of 33 miners trapped nearly half a mile underground for more than two months at a caved-in mine in northern Chile, are rescued. The miners survived longer than anyone else trapped underground in recorded history.
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North Face's Douglas Tompkins dies in Chile kayak accident
The US clothing billionaire and keen environmentalist Douglas Tompkins dies in a kayaking accident in southern Chile, aged 72.
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A Chilean Ex-Soldier Guiltily Recalls His Unit’s Atrocities
Guillermo Padilla says he was part of a commando unit in 1973 that tortured and executed suspected opponents of General Augusto Pinochet. By Pascale Bonnefoy.
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A penguin literally swims across an ocean every year just to see the Brazilian man who saved him
In 2011, a retired bricklayer and part-time fisherman found a starving, oil-covered penguin lying on his local beach in southeast Brazil. Joao Pereira de Souza, 71, scooped up the bird and took him home. He cleaned the bird, fed him, and named him Dindim. When Dindim was strong enough, Pereira de Souza took him back to the sea. But the bird wouldn’t go.
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Patagonian Sunrise
Torres del Paine National Park, Chile: "Taken just before sunrise in front of Hotel Rio Serrano. This unforgettable moment lasted for only 5 minutes," writes photographer Chaluntorn Preeyasombat.
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Massive sardine die-off in Chile’s Queule River
A massive fish kill was reported last week in the Queule River Estuary in Chile, leaving over 1,000 tons of dead sardines covering the waters and beaches and creating a human health threat. It is ironic that this story should come out just one day after Digital Journal reported on the closing of sardine fishing this year on the Pacific Coast of the U.S. because mention was made of the fluctuation in sardine populations.
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Chile Has So Much Solar Energy It’s Giving It Away for Free
Chile’s solar industry has expanded so quickly that it’s giving electricity away for free. Spot prices reached zero in parts of the country on 113 days through April, a number that’s on track to beat last year’s total of 192 days, according to Chile’s central grid operator. While that may be good for consumers, it’s bad news for companies that own power plants struggling to generate revenue and developers seeking financing for new facilities. Chile’s increasing energy demand, pushed by booming mining production and economic growth...
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Chile beat Argentina on penalties to win Copa América
Minute-by-minute report: Argentina’s wait for a major title continues after they lost the Copa América final to Chile on penalties.
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The Socialist Origins of Big Data
Evgeny Morozov on how the ideas behind Project Cybersyn, a futuristic experiment in cybernetics from nineteen-seventies Chile, still shapes technology.
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Chile Earthquake Triggers Tsunami Warning
An earthquake with a preliminary magnitude of 7.7 off southern Chile prompts a tsunami warning.
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Chile earthquake triggers tsunami warning
A tsunami alert issued after a powerful 7.6-magnitude earthquake off the coast of southern Chile has now been lifted. The quake struck at 14:22 GMT on the island of Chiloe, about 40km (25 miles) south-west of Quellon, the US Geological Survey (USGS) said. No casualties have been reported. Some 4,000 people were evacuated. It hit an area of Chile known for tourism. Some roads and bridges were affected but damage appeared to be limited.
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Groundbreaking UFO Video Just Released By Chilean Navy
An exceptional nine-minute Navy video of a UFO displaying highly unusual behavior, studied by Chilean authorities for the last two years, is now being released to the public. The CEFAA - the Chilean government agency which investigates UFOs, or UAP (unidentified aerial phenomena), has been in charge of the investigation. Located within the DGAC, the equivalent of our FAA but under the jurisdiction of the Chilean Air Force, CEFAA has committees of military experts, technicians and academics from many disciplines.
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Historic Gift Helps Chile Protect 10 Million Acres
In an historic ceremony on the edge of South America’s famed Pumalín Park, Chilean president Michelle Bachelet and the American philanthropist Kristine Tompkins today pledged to expand Chile’s national parkland by 10 million acres. In what has been billed as the world’s largest donation of privately held land, Tompkins—the founder, with her late husband, Doug Tompkins, of Tompkins Conservation—plans to hand over to the government slightly more than a million acres.
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Chile’s Indigenous Mapuche Protest Deadly Police Brutality
Chile’s Mapuche, who make up roughly 10 percent of its population, are more likely to be killed by police than non-Mapuche people.
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The Emperor Of Air
How a 19th-century French lawyer crowned himself a Patagonian king. By Jacob Mikanowski.
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Gay marriage has just been legalised in Chile
Chilean President Michelle Bachelet has introduced a bill to legalise gay marriage, the latest in a series of recent reforms in a country long regarded as one of Latin America’s most socially conservative.
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