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Chilean President Michelle Bachelet and her Argentine counterpart Cristina Fernandez signed a treaty on Friday to promote integration and cooperation between the two countries.

According to the autopsy, Jaime Mendoza Collo, 24, was shot in the back while trying to occupy a Region IX farm with 50 others who claimed ancestral ownership of the land.

Chile and Argentina agreed Friday to build road and railway tunnels across their common border in a project aimed at opening two new routes through the towering Andes, officials said.

Every once in a rare while comes a singer with such an extraordinary voice and uncommon musical gift that it touches deeply the souls of all who hear her.

SANTIAGO, Chile - At first, breaking the gender barrier in South America did not go smoothly for Michelle Bachelet .

Master Sgt. Vincent Jones hands out candy to sixth-grade students of Colegio Macaya during a joint U.S./Chilean air force visit to the school Oct.

Reports of police violence against Mapuche children in the southern Chilean region of Araucania prompted the country's UNICEF representative, Gary Stahl, to express the agency's deep concern at a meeting with three government ministers.

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17 to Nov. 2 in Antofagasta and Iquique, Chile. The effort can be challenging, considering France, Brazil, Chile, Argentina and the United States are learning to work together in a coalition environment while planning a large-scale peacekeeping operation.

The Kubler House is another brilliantly spatially organized modern residence that incorporates the landscape into the household.

Capt Randy Saldivar assists a young girl with a display at an interactive science museum Oct.

WHAT would Pablo Neruda say? The Chilean Nobel-prize-winning poet and devoted Communist had a love-hate relationship with his hometown of Santiago , Chile , which he once described as "asleep for eternity." A few years ago, many travelers would have agreed, stopping just long enough to change planes for more promising adventures in Patagonia , on ...

Conservative billionaire Sebastian Pinera held onto his lead in a new poll on Wednesday and looks set to win Chile's December presidential election, ending two decades of center-left rule.

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The wines of Chile, once not recognized by the wine community are enjoying a new reputation of bringing value to the American wine drinker.

On Saturday, October 17, at the Marian College of Santiago de Chile, there will be a National Encounter of Women's Pastoral Ministry on the theme: 'Women, missionary disciples for life in Chile.' According to a note sent to all the Pastors of the country and signed by the President of the National Commission of Women's Pastoral Ministry of the ...

The Real Deal: Round-trip airfare on LAN Airlines, arriving in Santiago and departing from Buenos Aires, plus regional flights; one night at Hotel Cabo de Hornos in Punta Arenas; three nights each at Hotel CostAustralis in Puerto Natales, Hotel Kosten Aike in El Calafate, and the Dazzler Tower in Buenos Aires; nine breakfasts, three lunches, and ...

Set in Santiago Chile , this is the comedic story of Raquel, a live-in maid who has been with the same family for 23 years.

Here are the 65 foreign-language contenders for the 82nd Academy Awards, along with the names of the directors and countries of origin: Albania, "Alive!," Artan Minarolli.

Oct. 14 - Chilean police break up a cockfighting ring that has been operating for 30 years in Santiago.

The merger of Colombia's Avianca airline and TACA of El Salvador has in one stroke heated up the aviation industry in Latin America, with major operators in Chile, Brazil and other countries most likely to be challenged for a share of the market.

Between now and the end of her term next March, President Michelle Bachelet will distribute 33,000 hectares of land among Mapuche Indian communities in Chile's conflictive southern region of Araucania, the press reported Friday.

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As the saying goes, it may not be the end of the world, but you can certainly see it from here: Chilean Patagonia, the breathtakingly beautiful -- and logistically challenging -- site of last month's 33rd annual TravelMart Latin America.

NASA plans to launch next week the first of 17 planned flights to study changes in Antarctic ice and collect data that may help scientists better predict the consequences of those changes, officials said Thursday.

A cow is covered with ash of the Chilean Chaiten volcano near the border town of Los Cipreses, in the Argentine Patagonia, seen here in 2008.

Twenty St. Cloud State University students left Aug. 18 to participate in the university's Latin American and Spanish Studies Program at the Universidad de Concepcion in Concepcion, Chile.

President Nguyen Minh Triet met Chile's acting President of Senate Carlos Bianchi and President of Chamber of Deputies of Chile Rodrigo Alvarez Zenteno in Santiago de Chile on Thursday.

During the emerging economies' commodities boom a few years back, Chilean Finance Minister AndrA©s Velasco was a wet blanket at the fiesta.

Oct. 2, 2009 Marshall University Executive MBA Class Heads to Chile for International Residency Special to Huntingtonnews.net South Charleston, WV - Twenty-two professional students in the current Marshall University Executive Master of Business Administration class will embark on an international study abroad residency to Santiago, Chile, this ...

Mormon church president Thomas S. Monson has announced plans to build five new temples in the U.S. and abroad.

Talks were held between President Nguyen Minh Triet and his Chilean counterpart Michelle Baehelet Jeria on the heels of a state welcome given to the Vietnamese guest on Wednesday at Moneda Palace in Santiago de Chile.