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Blabla NewsFriday, May 4, 2012 Santiago, Chile - 11C min. 18 C max. .

Chilean president

to announce new

tax reform

proposal.This is a very profound

change that seeks toimprove quality and equality

in education, he said onBuenos Das a Todos.

University archaeologistsfound 14,000-year-oldknives while studyingelephant ancestors.

Evidence of the earliest

human activity found inChiles south.

Chilean President Sebastin Piera (Photo by Jason Suder/The Santiago

Times)

Outbreak of bacteria in hospital causes panic and confusion.

Doctors from the PostaCentral public emergencyhospital in Santiago andseveral politicians arefacing an investigation for

allegedly

raising undue publicalarm regarding theoutbreak of deadlybacteria in thehospital.

Posta Central hospital in Santiago (Photo by Jacob Biba/The Santiago Times)

The Volcano of Osorno (Photo by Claudio

Seplveda)


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PoliticsChilean economy ministers assistant paid thousands a month.

The ex-mayor announced hisretirement from politics in 2008and even renounced hismembership of the IndependentDemocratic Union (UDI), however,

according to the Chilean newssource, a blog called YO NO VOTX L shows that he has beencontinuing to work as Longueirasassistant.

The position, as advertisedpublicly on a government website,

allows you to receive US$12,270(6 million CLP) a month workingfor Longueira on law projects andcoordination of parliamentarysupport. Cornejos contract,approved on Aug. 5, 2011, showsa yeary salary of US$61,354 (30million CLP).

In addition to a monthly salary,the former-UDI politician receivespayment for expenses, whichincludes money for travel, food,and accommodation.

The reason for Cornejos extendedemployment, he said, is that thegovernment did not have otherpeople to carry out the work andthat the situation is very muchaccidental and not usual,despite the fact that his 2011

contract paid him an annual salaryof US$147,251 (72 million CLP).

Cornejos past is hardly spotless.The former UDI member faced alawsuit for defrauding theTreasury in 2009. His wife, ClaudiaNogueira, a UDI deputy, was alsoinvolved.

His wife was formally charged forthe misuse of government fundsof the sum of US$61,354 (30million CLP) and had to repay the

figure to avoid the trial against herproceeding further.

The court absolved Cornejo of allcharges. However, seriousirregularities were detected in thegovernments financial recordsand the incident was serious

enough to persuade the politiciannot to run again for mayor.

Recently Chiles senators havebeen criticized for awardingthemselves a US$4,100 monthlyincrease for expenses.

Friday, 04 May 2012 17:17 Written by Olivia Crellin

Retired Mayor Gonzalo Cornejo serving as personal adviser for US$12,000 a month.

Radio Bo Bo has published documents proving that former Recoleta Mayor Gonzalo Cornejo

receives thousands of dollars a month from a contract that names him as Economy MinisterPablo Longueiras personal adviser.


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Po iticsChilean president to announce new tax reform proposal.

In a Wednesday morning televisionappearance, Piera declared that100 percent of the additionalresources collected through thenew tax system would go towardeducation.

This is a very profound change thatseeks to improve quality andequality in education, he said onBuenos Das a Todos.

The president is scheduled to meetwith members of the conservativecoalition La Alianza, which is madeof members of the far-rightIndependent Democratic Union(UDI) and the center-right NationalRenewal (RN) parties, at 8 p.m.

The tax reform discussion comes onthe heels of Education MinisterHarald Beyers new highereducation finance plan wasreleased on Monday.

So far, critics say the plan does notaddress removing profit-making inhigher education, which has beenone of the biggest demands of thestudent movement.

The president maintains that thenew finance plan will help 90percent of Chileans through thecreation of a new credit system.

UDI Sen. Vctor Prez said that hehopes the tax reform will includemore resources for regionsnot

just education.

We have to advance in theprocess of regionalization withmore resources and moreopportunities, Prez told LaTercera.Therefore the tax reformis an option of having a mechanism

that encourages investments in theprovinces.

Chilean President Sebastin Piera (Photo by

Jason Suder/The Santiago Times)

Friday, 04 May 2012 12:42 Written by Nathan Frandino

Sebastin Piera meeting with conservative coalition before discussing details on TVN.

President Sebastin Piera will discuss his administrations new tax reform proposal on national

television at 9 p.m. on Thursday, Bio Bio reported.


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EnvironmentChilean senator calls for president to nationalize water rights

Senate President Camilo Escalona has called upon President Sebastin Piera to nationalize thecountrys water rights in order to recuperate its natural resources.

Escalona, a member of the Socialist Party (PS), also said small farmers whose crops had depleteddue to the lack of water should be given more water rights to help sustain theirlivelihood, according to Radio Bio Bio.

Friday, 04 May 2012 17:20 WRITTEN BY JADE HOBMAN

Senate President Camilo Escalona wants answers to the countrys misuse of water resources.

Juan Pablo Orrego, president ofEcosistemas, an environmentalNGO in Chile, said changing

water rights into state handswould be almost impossible.Instead, Orrego said he favorsgiving them to the municipalities.

It would be difficult because youwould need to change the

constitution, the water code, andon top of that taking the rightsfrom the big companies would bechallenging, Orrego told TheSantiago Times. Locals should bein control of the rights rather thanthe state, but how can we transfer

them without a violent revolutionis difficult to say.

Party for Democracy (PPD) DeputyCristina Girardi has been analyzingthe water property issue withother deputies on a specialcommission and said Chiles waterproblem was not going to go awaytoo easily.

The water issue has caused a stirdue to the drought and scarcity ofthe resource, Girardi said on theChamber of Deputies website. Wemust face the problem as acountry.

The issue has been simmering forquite some time. One problem has

been water misuse, according tothe General Directorate of Water.In the Valparaso region,complaints of water misusetotalled 48 in 2010. In 2011, thosecomplaints shot up to 132.

Senate President Camilo Escalona says Chile should

nationalize its water. (Photo by simenon/Flickr)


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EnvironmentHigh levels of smog in Santiago incite driving restrictions

At 10 a.m., Seremi, theHealth Ministry's office forthe Metropolitan Region,issued "bad" ratings at two

of its monitoring stations:Quilicura and Cerro Navia.Quilicura registered 269 onthe Air Quality Index forParticles (ICAP) while CerroNavia registered 293.

The measure involves thepermanent restriction ofvehicles that lack the greenseal (not environmentallyapproved). Cars withlicenses ending in 3, 4, 5and 6 are restricted from

7:30 a.m. to 9 p.m. in theneighborhoods of SantiagoCentro, Puente Alto and SanBernardo.

Authorities reminded thecitys population that it isprohibited to use any kindof heater that runs on woodor other organic material inany part of the metropolitan

region.

This measure will beginFriday at midnight and last24 hours.

It is the first environmental

alert of 2012, Cooperativareported.

Seremi monitors air quality

daily here.

Government issues environmental alert, temporary driving restrictions in Santiago.

Friday, 04 May 2012 11:34 Written by Abigail Olmstead

Municipality officials declared an environmental alert in Santiago on Friday due to worseningconditions of ventilation in the capital in order to protect the health of the citys population, reportedLa Tercera.

Santiago (Photo by alita/Flickr)


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Human Rights & Law

"Changing the politicalconstitution requires areferendum where citizenscan decide for itself the kindof country they need," Arturo

Martinez, president of theConfederation of Workers(CUT), told La Tercera. Wemust end profits fromeducation and work toimprove public healthcare. Itis for this reason that we arehere this morning demandingour rights.

Like the majority of protestsin Chile's capital, the marchstarted peacefully as workers,

indigenous families dressed intraditional costumes andleaders from the educationmovement such as CamilaVallejo filled the streets.

However, tensionsheightened betweenprotestors and Chiles policeforce, the Carabineros, whenmasked youth, also known asencapuchados, arrived. Theconcealed figures destroyedbus stops, shop windows andtraffic lights whileantagonizing the police byattacking them with brokenpieces of concrete and paint

bombs.

"The march itself is fine. It'sonly afterwards when theencapuchados come that it

usually turns violent," protestparticipant Luis Miranda, 42,told The Santiago Times.

The mayhem reached itsclimax when protestparticipants set a privateeducation institution and abank on fire near the UninLatinoamericana Metro stop onAlameda.

Tuesday, 24 April 2012 17:59 Written by Olivia Crellin

102 arrested, including photographer, as bank, school and public property are set ablaze.

Chiles National Labor Day march ends in chaos

Like many countries across the globe, Chile celebrated International Labor Day on Tuesday asthousands marched downtown Santiago along Alameda in honor of workers rights.


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Human Rights & Law.Chilean police investing in US$6.7 million in riot control vehicles

The Chilean blog Yo NoVot x l (I didnt vote forhim) first published theleaked order online,showing that the police hadpurchased ten MercedesBenz trucks of the Actrosmodel.

Originally, the Carabinerosput their order up forbidding to privatecompanies, a process which

failed. The organizationthen bought the vehiclesdirectly from industrialsupplier Pirecsa.

The newly orderedvehicles are the same types

that were used againstprotesters in the student

movement in 2011 and theAysn social movementearly this year.In March 3,000demonstrators in Aysnoverpowered police anddestroyed several policevehicles during proteststhat were demandingattention to the issues ofthe region.Amnesty International

accused the Carabineros ofusing excessive force afternumerous reports ofinjuries caused by thepolice in Aysn wereappearing throughout themedia. Those reports

included incidents of

injuries caused by rubberbullets and tear gas. Otherrights groups alsocondemned actions ofcertain protesters who hadinjured various policeofficers.Throughout this time,Chileans confidence in thepolice fell to 47.1 percent,according to a UniversidadDiego Portales (UDP)

survey.

Carabineros to receive keys for 10 new water cannon trucks to replace damaged vehicles.

Sunday, 06 May 2012 07:00 Written by Jade HobmanThe Carabineros, Chiles police force, have bought 10 brand new vehicles with water cannons at

a cost of US$6.7 million due to a truck shortage and high demand, according to Radio Bio Bio.

(Photo provided by Olivia Crellin/The Santiago Times)


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Business

Study looks to uncover Chiles image in the international press.


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Business

Chiles tax reform meetings produce fuel price measures


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InternationalChilean lawyers and diplomats in Europe to observe Hague case

Tuesday marked the beginning of a round of closing statements that will be given at the UNsInternational Court of Justice (ICJ) at the Hague in the Netherlands concerning a maritime dispute

between Nicaragua and Colombia. Former Chilean Undersecretary

of Foreign Affairs, Alberto vanKlaveren, attended to observethe proceedings and preparefor Chiles upcoming casebefore the ICJ, which concernsa maritime dispute with

Peru. Van Klaveren will lead theChilean delegation in its firstoral argument this December.

The two ICJ cases are similar inthat they both dispute the

jurisdiction of previous treatiesthat were meant to settle

maritime border disagreementsmany years ago.

In the original Nicaragua-Colombia case, Nicaraguadisputed Colombiassovereignty over the SanAndrs Archipelago, claimingthat the 1928 Esguerra-Brcenas Treaty in which

Nicaragua ceded the islands toColombia was invalid on thegrounds that Nicaragua wasoccupied by the U.S. during thatperiod. Though the ICJ foundthat the sovereignty of theislands was out of its

jurisdiction, Nicaraguacontinued with its claim to thesurrounding waterways at TheHague.

In the Peru-Chile case, Peruclaims that its maritimeboundary should run in a

southwestern direction from itsland border, while Chile assertsthat Peru had previously agreedto divide the maritime territoryalong a latitudinal line inbilateral treaties signed in 1952and 1954 (see image). Peru,however, claims that thesetreaties established fishingrights, not maritime

boundaries.

Although the Peru-Chile case isdifferent, it will be interestingto see how the Court interpretsthe treaties, academic sourcestold Chilean daily El Mercurio.

Peruvian Ambassador AllanWagner, who leads thePeruvian delegation, will alsobe attending the proceedingsthis week. The final closingstatements in the Nicaragua-Colombia case will be given on

Friday.

Chile hopes to prepare for its own international dispute by observing separate trial.

Tuesday, 01 May 2012 14:52 Written by David Pedigo

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International.Chile sends observers to Syria to help United Nations mission

President Pierarecently authorized thedeployment of twoobservers in Syria for theU.N. Observation

Mission, Allamand saidin a press conferenceafter his meeting withU.S. Defense SecretaryLeon Panetta onThursday. They were

located in Lebanon andthe Golan Heights, anarea on the borderbetween Syria and Israel,but now they are withthe U.N. in Syria.

The U.S. DefenseSecretary came to Chileas the last stage in his

tour of Latin America,after visiting Colombiaand Brazil. The U.S. hasbeen skeptical of theU.N. mission andrequests the Security

Council increase thesanctions and pressureagainst Syria.The conflict in Syriaagainst President Bashar

Assad began on Jan. 26,2011 and is a part of aseries of popularrevolutions againstauthoritarian leaders inthe Middle East that has

become known as theArab Spring.The U.N. monitoringmission of Syria will takeplace initially for 90 days.

President sends officials to Middle East, despite sceptical U.S. reaction to the mission.

Friday, 27 April 2012 18:18 Written by Olivia Crellin

Chilean Defense Minister Andrs Allamand announced this week that Chile has deployed twoobservers in Syria to help with the U.N. Peacekeeping mission.

(Photo by Yunchung Lee/Flickr)


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HealthOutbreak of bacteria in hospital causes panic and confusion.


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HealthChile has the highest percentage of teenage smokers

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Science and Technology

Evidence of the earliest human activity found in Chiles south

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Science and Technology.ALMA telescope publishes first images

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Culture

Two Chilean films to premiere at Cannes Film Festival

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CultureChilean anti-poet Nicanor Parra receives Cervantes Prize.

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SportsColo Colo and La U prepare to clash in Chile's el clasico

Universidad de Chile, thecurrent league leaders, andColo Colo (the eternalchampions) will play at 4 p.m.on Sunday at the EstadioNacional in what is known inChile as el clasico.

The match, which showcasesthe most established rivalry inChilean football, has over timedeveloped a reputation for fanviolence. But this year policeand club chairmen are lookingto minimize antagonisms andhope to promote a family

friendly atmosphere.In a prearranged peacekeeping

meeting the two opposingteam captains met for coffee ata cafe in Santiago and bothexpressed hopes that thematch would be a peacefulaffair."We want this to be a quietweek, La U captain JoseRojas told El Hincha. I thinkits best to let the talking bedone on the field.Meanwhile, Colo Colo captainEsteban Paredes said, "Wehope that it will be a veryrelaxed afternoon, and thatthe family can return to socceronce all the violence in

stadiums comes to an end.Still, police in the stadium willnot be taking these coffeetable promises on face value.Officials have set out strictplans to ban the presence ofBanderas (large flags) anddrums in the stadium,

removing two of thequintessential elements of a

Latin American soccer game.Furthermore, just 3,000 ColoColo fans will be permittedentry to the stadium, andmany will be subjected to on-the-spot alcohol tests.The two teams enter thematch with starkly disparatestandings in currentcompetition. Colo Colo lastweek drew with the TalcaRangers and currently sit atninth in the league standings.Meanwhile, La U are six pointsahead at the top and reachedthe second round of the Copade Libertadores.

"La U may come into thematch winning, but this is adifferent game," Colo Colostriker Roberto Gutirrez, toldlocal press. I trust my team,my teammates. We have greatplayers and I think we willmove forward.

Police want to limit stadium violence by fostering a family friendly atmosphere.

Fans, players, and riot police are preparing themselves ahead of the most hotly anticipatedmatch in Chilean soccer.

Wednesday, 25 April 2012 16:46 Written by Struan Campbell Gray

(Photo by Pedro Pablo Vivanco D./Flickr)

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SportsBig wave surf competition comes to Chile

Wednesday, 18 April 2012 18:41 Written by Struan Campbell Gray

Worlds top big wave surfers will test their skills at Playa Punta de Lobos in Pichilemu.

Every Southern Hemisphere winter, vast low pressure systems line up in the south Pacific,funneling mountains of water toward the Chilean coast. There, surfers from across the globe

come to harness this oceanic energy, resulting in epic rides, savage beatings, and an incrediblesporting spectacle.


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