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Chilean President Lands Chopper on Busy Highway

Chile's billionaire president has cultivated a can-do image, piloting his own private helicopter and swooping in to hug 33 miners as the world rejoiced in their dramatic rescue last year. Sebastian Pinera's latest feat involved landing his chopper in the middle of a busy highway south of Santiago and shrugging off the...

Chilean Miners Can't Escape a Soccer Defeat

(Oct. 26) -- Even the 33 Chilean miners can't win them all. After surviving a mine shaft collapse, months of darkness and a harrowing journey back to safety through a tunnel the width of a basketball hoop, the rescued miners finally met their match. They were beaten in a soccer game this week against their country's...

Pinera Reshuffles Latin America's Political Deck

(Oct. 20) -- Only a decade ago the scene would have been unimaginable: a Chilean miner -- an icon of the political left -- hugging a right-wing politician once tarred for his ties to a cruel dictatorship. But there it was, the 10-second hug between the billionaire Chilean President Sebastian Pinera and Luis Urzua, the...

Happy, Exhausted Miners Face New Challenges

(Oct. 14) -- As the 33 Chilean miners rescued this week reunite with loved ones and gulp fresh air for the first time in 69 days, attention is turning to how these lucky survivors will handle their new status as folk heroes. There's also the question of what will happen to Camp Hope, the cluster of tents in the Atacama...

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Chile Student Protest: Students March Despite President Pineda's Education Reform Promise

President Sebastian Pinera said Wednesday a tax overhaul he is sending to congress will raise $700 million that will be enough to bring real changes to Chile's education system.

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06/04/12 Chilean president gets pen to replace that "pocketed"... Source: Prague Daily Monitor Czech MEP Edvard Kozusnik (Civic Democrats, ODS) has sent a pen to Chilean President Sebastian Pinera as a compensation for the protocolar pen that Czech President Vaclav Klaus "pocketed" during his visit to Chile last years, Kozusnik has told CTK.
06/01/12 Lack of political support freezes Chile's biggest... Source: MercoPress Santiago-based power company Colbun SA (COLBUN), which holds 49% of 2,750-megawatt HidroAysen project said it wants to indefinitely suspend plans to seek environmental permission to build transmission lines to the capital.
05/22/12 Most of Chile quake damage repaired Source: FOX - Fox 16 - Little Rock AR Three-quarters of the Chilean areas hit by the devastating 2010 earthquake have been reconstructed, President Sebastian Pinera told congress Monday.
05/22/12 Chelsea Welcomed Source: The Manila Bulletin - Philippines The US EmbasÂ¬sy says it would embrace ChelÂ¬sea as neighbors if the European champions build a stadium near the embassy's planned new site in London.
05/21/12 Pinera says three-fourths of quake damage repaired Source: FOX - WSVN 7 - Miami FL Three-quarters of the Chilean areas hit by the devastating 2010 earthquake have been reconstructed, President Sebastian Pinera told congress Monday.