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CHILE: Criminal Responsibility of Teens in Limbo
The law on juvenile criminal responsibility that will enter into force in Chile on Jun. 8, one year later than originally planned, is in need of major adjustments if it is to be enforced successfully, according to experts.HEALTH-CHILE: Teen Pregnancy Bucks Global Downward Trend
She is only 24 and has already had three children. The first was born when she was 14, the second when she was 20, and the third, who she gave in adoption, was born just a few weeks ago. Her story is a reflection of teen pregnancy and early motherhood, which are on the rise in Chile.CHILE: Sexual Minorities Report Gay Bashing, But Greater Recognition
The Chilean Movement for Homosexual Integration and Liberation (MOVILH) will press charges next week against several Carabineros (militarised police) for brutally beating a man three times in a single night.MEDIA-CHILE: Community Newspapers Take to the Web
Political science student Vlado Mirosevic, 20, is the proud editor of El Morrocotudo, Chile's first community newspaper, where hundreds of people like him post news items of local interest on the Internet.TRANSPORT-CHILE: Transantiago – Ready for Take-Off?
A new public transport system will start operating this Saturday in the Chilean capital, aimed at improving quality of life and curbing air pollution. But its success depends on overcoming infrastructure problems and the difficulty of changing entrenched cultural habits.ENERGY-CHILE: Home-Grown Biofuels – Big-Time?
The government of President Michelle Bachelet seems determined to develop the biofuels industry in order to diversify Chile's energy sources, in spite of doubts that have arisen about their desirability.ENVIRONMENT-CHILE: Wetlands – To Know Them Is to Cherish Them
Increasing society's knowledge about wetlands and improving coordination between the different public services involved in the conservation of these valuable ecosystems are among Chile's main challenges at the moment, according to experts.THEATRE-CHILE: Enter Salvation, Stage Right
Among the profusion of plays on offer in the Chilean capital in the new year is a festival of moving dramas in which the actors are convicts and slum-dwellers, who are trying to escape marginalisation by going on the stage.ENVIRONMENT-CHILE: UV Radiation, the Dark Side of the Sun
The hole in the ozone layer over Antarctica, where the ozone thins out every southern hemisphere springtime, is recovering for the time being, but all regions in Chile will receive extremely high levels of ultraviolet radiation this month.CHILE: Mapuche Indians Want Response to Their Demands
The Mapuches, Chile's largest indigenous group, are tired of the promises of social justice and greater participation in decision-making voiced by the last three centre-left governments. Their leaders thus met with President Michelle Bachelet to propose a new working relationship.LATIN AMERICA: The Challenge of Gauging Progress Towards MDGs
Almost halfway to the deadline for meeting the U.N. Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), some of the targets are still out of reach of many countries in Latin America and the Caribbean. And there is another challenge: strengthening statistical capacity to measure progress.CHILE: Pension Reform – Just a Face-Lift, or the Real Thing?
Chile's social security system, one of the jewels in the crown of the dictatorship of the late General Augusto Pinochet, will be fiercely debated in Congress in 2007. But the reform initiative with which President Michelle Bachelet wants to "make history" has already come under fire.CHILE: Pinochet Will Continue to Mark Chilean Society
The body of former Chilean dictator Augusto Pinochet has been reduced to a handful of ashes, kept at one of the family residences. But although he had no political power at the time of his death, his legacy of division and violence will continue to mark Chilean society.ENVIRONMENT-CHILE: Time for Straight Talk about Transgenics?
In Chile, transgenic seeds may only be planted to produce crops for export. However, imported transgenic foods can be eaten here.ENVIRONMENT: Stepped-Up Battle Against Andean Gold Mine
Canadian mining giant Barrick Gold Corp. is facing a stepped-up international campaign against its Pascua Lama gold mine project on the border between Chile and Argentina, high up in the Andes Mountains.CHILE: Pinochet, Miracle or Ruse?
Just two days after an accumulation of liquid in his lungs, a major heart attack and emergency angioplasty, 91-year-old former Chilean dictator Augusto Pinochet (1973-1990), who is also a diabetic, is already able to get out of bed..LATIN AMERICA: Indigenous People Gaining Ground (On Paper)
For the first time ever, the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) has devoted a chapter to indigenous peoples in its annual Social Panorama report on the region.CHILE: Airport Divides Government and Mapuches
The Chilean government wants the inauguration of the future international airport in the Araucanía region to mark the country's bicentennial in 2010. But some 500 Mapuche families oppose construction of the terminal because of potential social and environmental harm.CHILE: Capturing the Soul of Afghanistan – in Pictures
An Afghani woman, swathed in traditional Muslim attire, stands halfway down a stairway, her arms crossed and her head slightly bowed. She is alone, inside an old, dark building, lit up only by the flash of the camera.
Airport Divides Government and Mapuches
Indigenous groups are fighting to halt construction of a new airport in the Chilean region of Araucanía. It is one of President Bachelet's biggest infrastructure projects.SOCIAL FORUM-CHILE: Another Araucania Is Possible
The music of the Mapuche people played at the opening of the First Social Forum of Araucania, a southern Chilean region characterised by poverty and many social and environmental conflicts.« Previous Page — Next Page »
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