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  • 6 Dec 2010
    A young Mapuche speaks up for her people

    Natividad Llanquileo is a young woman from the Mapuche people, an indigenous group that makes up some four per cent of the Chilean population. She is also the youngest representative of the Mapuche political prisoners in Concepción. Alberto Dufey hears her story, and that of her people.

  • 18 Oct 2010
    Rescuing the miners: PR and self-effacement

    You would have to have a harder heart than mine not to have been affected by the rescue of the 33 trapped Chilean miners.

  • 27 Jul 2010
    Democracy is easy to lose and hard to restore, says Chilean Lutheran

    It is easy to lose democratic mechanisms but difficult to get them back, says the incoming General Secretary of the Lutheran World Federation.

  • 1 Mar 2010
    Chile declares an emergency in 'quake aftermath

    The Chilean government has declared an emergency and international agencies and NGOs are stepping up their response in the aftermath of the 8.8-magnitude earthquake.

  • 28 Feb 2010
    The Chile earthquake - updates and assistance

    Watching a tragedy from afar can leave you feeling helpless. But the facilities of the 'instant media' era are not just voyeuristic - they can make a vital difference - securing information, soliciting donations and assisting prompt and better targeted responses from NGOs and international bodies.

  • 27 Feb 2010
    Humanitarian response to massive Chile earthquake begins

    A massive 8.8 magnitude earthquake hit Chile at 03.34 local time on Saturday 27 February. The extent of the damage is still difficult to determine, but buildings have collapsed and more than 300 people are already reported dead.

  • 25 Sep 2008
    Ex-Chilean dictator's agents jailed over priest's disappearance

    A former secret police commander and three agents who served in former Chilean dictator Augusto Pinochet's regime have been sentenced to seven years in prison for the 1974 disappearance of a Spanish priest.

  • 10 Dec 2006
    Chilean dictator dies without remorse for his victims

    General Augusto Pinochet, the dictator who ruled Chile from 1973 to 1990, has died in hospital of heart failure, aged 91 - having escaped numerous attempts to charge him for murder, human rights abuses, fraud involving 28 million US dollars, and corruption.

  • 20 Sep 2006
    Nonviolence a focus for Religion After 9/11 gathering

    The religious basis of peace, non-violence and reconciliation in a plural world was one of the main discussion points at a recent meeting of faith leaders in the light of the fifth year anniversary of the 9/11 attacks on the World Trade Centre in New York.