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Chile, officially theRepublic of Chile, is a country in westernSouth America. It is the southernmost country in the world and the closest toAntarctica, extending along a narrow strip of land between theAndes Mountains and thePacific Ocean. According to the 2024 census, Chile had an enumerated population of 18.5 million. The country covers a territorial area of 756,102 square kilometers (291,933 sq mi), sharing borders withPeru to the north,Bolivia to the northeast,Argentina to the east, and theDrake Passage to the south. It also administers several Pacific islands, includingJuan Fernández,Isla Salas y Gómez,Desventuradas, andEaster Island, and claims about 1,250,000 square kilometers (480,000 sq mi) of Antarctica as theChilean Antarctic Territory. The capital and largest city isSantiago, and the national language isSpanish.
Spain conquered and colonized the region in the mid-16th century, replacingInca rule; however, theyfailed to conquer the autonomous tribalMapuche people who inhabited what is now south-central Chile. Chile emerged as a relatively stable authoritarian republic in the 1830s after their 1818declaration of independence fromSpain. During the 19th century, Chile experienced significant economic and territorial growth,putting an end to Mapuche resistance in the 1880s and gaining its current northern territory in theWar of the Pacific (1879–83) by defeating Peru and Bolivia.
In the 20th century, up until the 1970s, Chile underwent a process ofdemocratization and experienced rapid population growth andurbanization, while relying increasingly on exports fromcopper mining to supportits economy. During the 1960s and 1970s, the country was marked by severe left-rightpolitical polarization and turmoil, which culminated in theSeptember 11, 1973 coup d'état that overthrewSalvador Allende's democratically electedleft-wing government, with support from theUnited States. This was followed by a16-and-a-half-year right-wing military dictatorship led byAugusto Pinochet, during which the1980 Constitution was enacted, along with numerous political and economic reforms, and which was marked by widespreadhuman rights violations, including more than3,000 deaths and disappearances. The regime ended in 1990, following areferendum in 1988, and was succeeded by acenter-left coalition, which ruled until 2010. (Full article...)
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TheBattle of Caldera Bay, or theSinking ofBlanco Encalada, was a naval engagement fought in theCaldera Bay during the1891 Chilean Civil War between Balmacedist and Congressional naval forces on 23 April 1891. It involved twoBalmacedisttorpedo boats of theAlmirante Lynch-class, and theCongressionalarmored frigateBlanco Encalada.
After both torpedoes fromAlmirante Condell had missed,Blanco Encalada was hit by a torpedo fromAlmirante Lynch and sank in minutes, with the loss of 182 men. The loss ofBlanco Encalada hindered the Congressional forces, but they ultimately defeated the Balmacedist forces that August.Blanco Encalada was the first ironclad warship lost to aself-propelled torpedo. The engagement prompted countries to rapidly grow both their torpedo boat and torpedo boat destroyer forces (the latter commonly referred to asdestroyers). (Full article...)
Cecilia Vicuña (born 1948) is a Chilean poet and artist based in New York and Santiago, Chile.
Her work is noted for themes of language, memory, dissolution, extinction and exile. Critics also note the relevance of her work to the politics of ecological destruction,cultural homogenization, and economic disparity, particularly the way in which such phenomena disenfranchise the already powerless. Her commitment to feminist forms and methodologies is considered to be a unifying theme across her diverse body of work, among which herfibre artquipus, knotted or unknotted strings,palabrarmas andprecarios, made from natural, delicate materials, stand out. Her practice has been specifically linked to the termeco-feminism. (Full article...)
The territory ofChile has been populated since at least 3000 BC. By the 16th century, Spanish invaders began to raid the region of present-day Chile, and the territory was a colony from 1540 to 1818, when it gainedindependence from Spain. The country's economic development was successively marked by the export of first agricultural produce, thensaltpeter and later copper. The wealth of raw materials led to an economic upturn, but also led to dependency, and even wars with neighboring states. Chile was governed during most of its first 150 years of independence by different forms of restricted government, where the electorate was carefully vetted and controlled by an elite.
Failure to address the economic and social increases and increasing political awareness of the less-affluent population, as well as indirect intervention and economic funding to the main political groups by theCIA, as part of theCold War, led to a political polarization underSocialistpresidentSalvador Allende. This in turn resulted in the1973 coup d'état and themilitary dictatorship of GeneralAugusto Pinochet, whose seventeen-year regime was responsible for manyhuman rights violations anddeep market-oriented economic reforms. In 1990, Chile made a peacefultransition to democracy and initiate a succession of democratic governments. (Full article...)
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