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Fernando Almeda, who moved to south- central Chile’s Curico valley from his native Spain two decades ago to pursue his love of winemaking, says the Andean nation is a paradise for vintners. Its Mediterranean-like climate is well suited to growing grapes, while the Andes mountain range to the east and Atacama Desert to the north provide natural barriers against pests.
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Chilean President Sebastian Pinera’s coalition suffered a defeat in local elections yesterday with the opposition winning key municipalities just one year before presidential elections.
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Investigators in Chile exhumed Salvador Allende ’s remains today as part of an inquiry into the former president’s death in a coup d’état 37 years ago.
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Sebastian Pinera ’s first bill as a Chilean senator 20 years ago aimed to protect the environment. He later created an island nature reserve. Now president, he may oversee approval of a $7 billion project that would flood Patagonian valleys and stretch cables across protected forests.
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Chilean President Sebastian Pinera ’s approval rating rose to the highest since taking office in March after his government rescued 33 miners trapped underground for more than two months, research group Adimark GfK said.
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Chilean President Sebastian Pinera ’s approval rating slid to 46 percent in July from 52 percent in June, according to a poll published by Adimark GfK.
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Chilean President Sebastian Pinera ’s approval surged to the highest level since he took office in March because of his handling of the search and rescue of 33 miners trapped in an underground mine in the Atacama Desert.
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Chilean President Sebastian Pinera is gaining popularity from his efforts to free 33 trapped copper miners as he asks lawmakers to limit tax increases on companies such as BHP Billiton Ltd . and Xstrata Plc .
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Chilean Energy Minister Fernando Echeverria’s resignation last night over a conflict of interest after being named to the position July 18 by President Sebastian Pinera may be “costly” and betrays “trend of rushing rather than paying attention to detail,” according to two analysts.
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Chilean President Sebastian Pinera plans to send a bill to Congress in the coming days that would scrap the payment of 10 percent of state copper company Codelco’s sales to the armed forces.
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