country:chile

Chile court: US had role in ‘Missing’ killings
▻http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/the_americas/chile-court-us-had-role-in-missing-killings/2014/07/01/de82fa56-00e9-11e4-b203-f4b4c664cccf_story.html

SANTIAGO, Chile — A Chilean court said U.S. military intelligence services played a key role that led to the 1973 killings of two Americans in Chile in a case that inspired the Oscar-winning film “Missing.”

A court ruling released late Monday said former U.S. Navy Capt. Ray E. Davis gave information to Chilean officials about journalist Charles Horman and student Frank Teruggi that led to their arrest and execution just days after the 1973 coup that brought Gen. Augusto Pinochet to power.

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Can an African team reach the World Cup semi-finals?
▻http://africasacountry.com/can-an-african-team-reach-the-world-cup-semi-finals

No European nation has won the World Cup when it has been held in South America, and the potential for teams such as Argentina, Chile and Uruguay to pose a major challenge should be taken seriously. Although the marketing campaigns of major multinationals sell the event as a stage for brilliant individual players, such as […]

#Football_is_a_Country #General #SPORT #Sports #Algeria #Didier_Drogba #Indomitable_Lions #Kwesi_Appiah #Nigeria #Roger_Milla #Sabri_Lamouchi #Sofiane_Feghouli #Stephen_Keshi #Super_Eagles

BIG RIVER FROM THE BOTTOM OF THE WORLD
▻http://www.filmsforaction.org/watch/big-river-from-the-bottom-of-the-world

THIS IS ONE OF THE MOST BEAUTIFUL PLACES AT THE SOUTH OF CHILE

Week in Photos (April 12-April 18)
▻http://english.al-akhbar.com/photoblogs/week-photos-april-12-april-18

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View of houses in flames during a fire in Valparaiso, 110 km west of Santiago, Chile, on April 12, 2014. (Photo: Alberto Miranda-AFP) View of houses in flames during a fire in Valparaiso, 110 km west of Santiago, Chile, on April 12, 2014. (Photo: Alberto Miranda-AFP) The giant moving inflated astronaut art piece, Escape Velocity, is surrounded by music fans at the Coachella Valley Music & Arts Festival at the Empire Polo Club in Indio, California, April 12, 2014. (Photo: David McNew-AFP) The giant moving inflated astronaut art piece, Escape Velocity, is surrounded by music fans at the Coachella Valley Music & Arts Festival at the Empire Polo Club in (...)

4月2日のツイート
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BUTALEBU Chilean Big River (subtitled)
▻http://www.filmsforaction.org/watch/butalebu-chilean-big-river-subtitled

Bío Bío basin is the great womb of southern Chile, where hundreds of living beings. This is a tribute and a warning for future generations are aware of how important it is to care for nature and...

If ’Palestine’ Jerseys Incite Hatred, What About JNF?
▻http://blogs.forward.com/forward-thinking/190709/if-palestine-jerseys-incite-hatred-what-about-jnf

❝According to the #Simon_Wiesenthal Center’s January 6 statement, the jerseys are not only “inciting hatred among the large Arab community in Chile.” They are also “fomenting a terrorist intent.” The #Anti-Defamation_League added on January 8 that the one-state map constitutes “inappropriate political imagery” and a “clear delegitimization of Israel.” Both organizations called for the imposition of penalties on El Palestino soccer club.

For these groups to take issue with imagery that depicts Israeli and Palestinian land as a single state makes perfect sense. But El Palestino isn’t the only group to do so: the #Jewish_National_Fund also favors one-state imagery. Their iconic blue donation boxes, ubiquitous in Jewish schools across the globe, feature a map depicting Israel without the Green Line. That means the JNF doesn’t distinguish Israel from the Palestinian-populated West Bank — ...-

▻http://forward.com/articles/190178/jewish-national-funds-iconic-blue-box-sends-one-st/?p=all

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Paille #poutre

The third and final episode of a beautiful place anda big river in the south of Chile
▻http://www.filmsforaction.org/watch/the_third_and_final_episode_of_a_beautiful_place_anda_big_river_in_t

The last part of 3 documentary about a big river called Bio BIo, where the mapuche people fought against the spaniard conquers. In this episode we can learn about its ending at the sea.

The Colony: Chile’s dark past uncovered
▻http://www.aljazeera.com/programmes/aljazeeracorrespondent/2013/11/colony-chile-dark-past-uncovered-2013114105429774517.html

In 1961, a former #Nazi officer called Paul Schaefer fled Germany, along with hundreds of others, to found a sect in southern Chile. In an idyllic rural enclave framed by the Andes Mountains he created a virtual state within a state - one where horrifying events unfolded.

Initially with the ignorance of the government, and then with the complicity of the #Pinochet regime, children were separated from their parents at birth and raised in a Kinder House. Men and women were kept apart and often drugged, while Schaefer systematically sexually abused boys and, occasionally, girls.

But it was not only the residents of Colonia Dignidad, or the Dignity Colony, that endured such brutalities. The secluded Colony, set on a huge estate featuring forests, mountains and rivers and enclosed by electrified barbed wire fences and look-out posts manned by armed guards, was the perfect place for the interrogation, #torture and disposal of anyone Pinochet considered to be an enemy.

#Saudi_Arabia obtains #UN_Security_Council seat for the first time
▻http://english.al-akhbar.com/content/saudi-arabia-obtains-un-security-council-seat-first-time

Saudi Arabia on Thursday won a UN Security Council seat for the first time in a new show of determination to make its voice heard, joining Chad, Chile, Lithuania and Nigeria in taking places on the key body. All five countries stood unopposed in an election by the 193 member UN General Assembly. They will replace Azerbaijan, Guatemala, Morocco, Pakistan and Togo on the 15-nation council on January 1. Saudi Arabia, despite its oil power, has never competed for a place on the United Nations’ (...)

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Atomic Aggressor / Death Yell – split 7”
▻http://chewbone.rickshide.com/2013/09/24/atomic-aggressor-death-yell-split-7

2013 Hells Headbangers Records 320ks 36.33mb Atomic Aggressor – Blind Servants Death Yell – Back from the Depths OUT NOW on Hells Headbangers: Comes in a gatefold jacket with printed inner sleeve. Pressed on red/grey half/half vinyl and traditional black vinyl.Ancient masters return! An exclusive blood-pact between two cult South American hordes, Chile’s ATOMIC AGGRESSOR [...]

#Metal

Misinformation on classified NSA programs includes statements by senior U.S. officials - The Washington Post
▻http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/misinformation-on-classified-nsa-programs-includes-statements-by-senior-us-officials/2013/06/30/7b5103a2-e028-11e2-b2d4-ea6d8f477a01_print.html

Il en est des membres du régime étasunien comme des banksters : Jusqu’à un passe récent se faire attraper entraînait des conséquences judiciaires mais plus maintenant.

Clapper’s testimony before the Senate Intelligence Committee in March has drawn comparisons to other cases in which U.S. intelligence officials faced, under oath, questions that to answer truthfully would require exposing a classified program.

In 1973, then-CIA Director Richard Helms denied agency involvement in CIA operations in Chile, a falsehood that led to him pleading no contest four years later to misdemeanor charges of misleading Congress.

There is no indication that lawmakers have contemplated pursuing such a course against Clapper, in part because he subsequently corrected his claim, although there is disagreement over how quickly he did so.

Israel has highest poverty rate in OECD | The Times of Israel
▻http://www.timesofisrael.com/israel-has-highest-poverty-rate-in-oecd-data-shows

Israel has a poverty rate of 21 percent, the highest among all OECD countries, a report by the economic development organization revealed Wednesday.

The report, aimed at investigating the impact of the global financial crisis on developing countries, also found that the gap between the rich and the poor was very high in Israel, with only Chile, Turkey, Mexico and the United States exhibiting a higher gap.

Thatcher’s legacy - World Socialist Web Site

▻http://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2013/04/09/pers-a09.html

Thatcher’s legacy
9 April 2013

Margaret Thatcher, the friend of Chile’s fascist dictator General Augusto Pinochet and supporter of the apartheid system of racial discrimination in South Africa, has died of a stroke at the age of 87.

Neither the media’s eulogies to Thatcher as a great stateswoman, nor the staging of a day of national mourning complete with military honours, can conceal the fact that she died arguably the most hated figure in British politics.

#royaume-uni #thatcher #margareth-fucking-thatcher

Comparaison de coûts médicaux entre 12 pays

U.S. pays most for doctors, drugs, hospital, childbirth - UPI.com
▻http://www.upi.com/Health_News/2013/03/26/US-priciest-for-doctors-drugs-hospital/UPI-97371364345838

Les comparaisons sont fondées sur des bases assez différentes : d’un côté les États-Unis par analyse statistique des coûts constatés (ce qui permet d’avoir des éléments tels que le premier quartile et le 95ème centile), pour les 11 autres pays par relevé de tarif fourni par une assurance-maladie par pays.

Healthcare prices for Canada, New Zealand, Switzerland and the United Kingdom were paid from the public sector and one health plan in each country, while prices for Australia, Chile, the Netherlands, Spain and South Africa were from the private sector and represent prices paid by one private health plan in each country.

Prices for France and Argentina were a blend of public and private sector with the data provided by one health plan in each country.

U.S. prices were calculated from a database of more than 100 million paid claims that reflect prices negotiated between thousands of providers and almost 100 hundred health plans

Coût d’une consultation chez le médecin

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Coût total d’un accouchement

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Coût total d’une césarienne

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Le document d’ensemble ▻http://www.ifhp.com/documents/2012iFHPPriceReportFINALMarch25.pdf

Postneoliberalism – A beginning debate

▻http://www.dhf.uu.se/pdffiler/DD2009_51_postneoliberalism/Development_Dialogue_51_small.pdf

The argument in this article is set against the following background.
There was a fi
rst phase of neoliberalism – starting in Chile 1973 and
gaining power in the 1980s – which consisted mainly of the destruc-
tion of the post-war (Fordist and peripheral-Fordist) institutional set-
tings and (asymmetric) social compromises, and a second phase in
the 1990s, after the fall of the Berlin wall, when neoliberal politics
was largely uncontested, institutionalised in many spheres of the so-
cial and constitutionalised (in national legal systems as well as inter-
nationally, for example, in the WTO).
For some years a third phase has
been underway, consisting of attempts to deal with the contradictions and crises
of neoliberalism itself.
Neoliberal politics has produced highly unstable
relations which can no longer be controlled: the most obvious ex-
amples are the fi
nancial crisis and the social crisis of integration, but
there is also a deepening of the environmental crisis. These strategies
can be called postneoliberal and they aim to deal with the several cri-
ses of functioning and to avoid a crisis of legitimation of neoliberal
and especially of capitalist societal relations – or to deal with such a
crisis if it occurs.

#neolibéralisme
#post-néolibéralisme

Nate Silver and Political #Data : Every One of His State-level Presidential #Predictions Proved True | Singularity Hub
►http://singularityhub.com/2012/11/08/nate-silver-and-big-data-every-one-of-his-state-level-presidential-p

A former baseball statistician, Silver has made his name by aggregating state level polling data, and predicting the likelihood of victory by adjusting for different factors that have historically influenced electoral performance. He consistently rejected the conventional wisdom that the race was tied, and for that, he was cast as a left-wing nut peddling bad science.

Nate Silver et la #prévision par les #statistiques
►http://www.lemonde.fr/elections-americaines/article/2012/11/02/nate-silver-le-statisticien-promu-gourou-de-la-prediction-politique_1784852_

Donc on parle beaucoup de ce statisticien venu du baseball, qui a eu tout bon comme Paul le poulpe naguère. On en tire des leçons scientifiques même comme relevé par @rezo : ►http://tomroud.cafe-sciences.org/2012/11/07/5-lecons-scientifiques-du-succes-de-nate-silver

Il y a eu un film récemment « Moneyball » sur les premiers statisticiens de ce sport à Oakland, dans l’équipe des A’s, pas mal (Brad Pitt dans le rôle de Billy Beane)
►http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moneyball:_The_Art_of_Winning_an_Unfair_Game #sport #élections #US #chiffres #démocratie

D’après Wired « Obama Wins Nerdiest Election Ever »
►http://www.wired.com/dangerroom/2012/11/nerdiest-election-ever/all

Sujet déjà évoqué là : ►http://seenthis.net/messages/85122

Rwanda’s Health Care Miracle - NYTimes
►http://opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/07/03/rwandas-health-care-miracle

health coverage for all. All other developed countries have it. But so do some developing nations — Brazil, Thailand, Chile. These countries are mostly middle income. But one country on the list is among the poorest of the poor: Rwanda.

The point is not that Americans should envy Rwanda’s health system — far from it. But Rwanda’s experience illustrates the value of universal health insurance.

(...) Kagame is also widely admired as the most effective leader in Africa. A country in ashes 18 years ago is now safe and clean. It is one of the least corrupt countries in Africa. Per capita income has tripled — although the fact that it is now only $550 a year tells you how destitute Rwanda was.

Its most impressive gains, however, have been in health.

#santé #rwanda #assurance #partners_in_health #pih #frique #sida

META: post-earthquake #architecture for chile
►http://www.designboom.com/weblog/cat/9/view/17177/meta-post-earthquake-architecture-for-chile.html

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ten international architects will come together to collaborate for the ’META’ project, an initiative to create a series of pavilions
to be located within communities along the coast of chile as a response to the country’s devastating earthquake which occurred
on february 27, 2010. supported by the chilean government, the structures serve a humanitarian purpose but additionally
function as a humanistic enterprise, improving the post-catastrophic situation while reconstructing cultural infrastructure.

Student protests in Chile (The Big Picture)
►http://www.boston.com/bigpicture/2011/09/student_protests_in_chile.html

The ongoing student demonstrations in Chile began as a protest over the costs, profits, and fairness of higher education there. They have since attracted other segments of Chilean society venting frustration over wages, health care, and other issues. Uniting the protesters is common dissatisfaction with hugely unpopular President Sebastian Pinera and social inequality. Workers joined a 48-hour general strike in August which, like many demonstrations during the course of the protests, was met with police using tear gas and water cannons on the participants. With changes in the education system still unsettled, the student protests are likely to continue. Chileans yesterday celebrated their national independence day. Source: The Big Picture

Chile’s Commander Camila, the student who can shut down a city (Relevé sur le net)
►http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2011/aug/24/chile-student-leader-camila-vallejo

Not since the days of Zapatistas’ Subcomandante Marcos has Latin America been so charmed by a rebel leader. This time, there is no ski mask, no pipe and no gun, just a silver nose ring.
Meet Commander Camila, a student leader in Chile who has become the face of a populist uprising that some analysts are calling the Chilean winter. Her press conferences can lead to the sacking of a minister. The street marches she leads shut down sections of the Chilean capital. She has the government on the run, and now even has police protection after receiving death threats. (...)

#Chile: Teenage Boy Dies After Shooting During Protests Against President Sebastian Pinera’s Policies | World News | Sky News
►http://news.sky.com/home/world-news/article/16057462

A 14-year-old boy has died after being shot in the chest during massive protests in Chile’s capital, Santiago.

It is the first fatality in months of demonstrations across the country.

The teenager was identified by local media as Manuel Gutierrez.

He died on Friday after apparently being shot near a security barricade as protesters battled police the day before.

The Chilean revolution: What it’s not, what it is, what it means for your copper | Setty’s notebook
►http://settysoutham.wordpress.com/2011/08/24/notes-from-the-chilean-revolution-2011

As Chile plunges into its first general strike in eight years, outside observers can be excused if they are a bit surprised. Chile is supposed to be the stodgy, conservative, institutionality-respecting corner of South America, where nothing ever happens. But this is changing as the public runs out of patience after centuries of being told that if they wait and work hard, someday their children will be better off than they are

It’s not about education, either. The demands from the student groups mostly have to do with education. But at heart, the demands for educational reform are a means to an end. People really want a chance to get ahead. In Canada or Australia, rich fathers pass on “less than 20% of [their] wage advantage … to their sons,” according to a 2010 OECD report. In the USA, that is more than 40%, according to the same study. According to University of Chile economist Dante Contreras, the figure in Chile is 65%. For a perspective, let’s turn to the raging communards at the World Bank:

Despite substantial improvements in living standards and a GNP per capita of US$10,108 at 2008, some 13.7 percent of Chileans live below the poverty line, with many millions precariously just above it. Indeed, annual income for most Chileans remains very low. The distribution of income is among the most unequal of any country in the world, and upward social mobility is scarce.

Student Protests in Chile - Alan Taylor - In Focus - The Atlantic
►http://www.theatlantic.com/infocus/2011/08/student-protests-in-chile/100125

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Los Chacarilla Boys (o de la amnesia Chilena) » The Clinic Online
►http://www.theclinic.cl/2011/07/23/los-chacarilla-boys-o-de-la-amnesia-chilena

No hay peor enfermedad social que la falta de memoria histórica. Chile la sufre de modo agudo. El 9 de julio de 1977 un grupo de 77 jóvenes nacionalistas de extrema derecha subió al cerro Chacarillas, al lado del San Cristóbal, en el acto más fascista de todos los tiempos de este país. (...) ¿Quiénes subieron a Chacarillas? Ayer fue el cambio de gabinete. El listado de El Mercurio de la época señala el número 15 de los valientes: Andrés Chadwick, hoy Ministro Vocero de Gobierno; número 38, Cristián Larroulet, Ministro del triunvirato de La Moneda; y 39, Joaquín Lavín, defenestrado Ministro de Educación y resucitado Ministro de Planificación Nacional.

Effet collatéral du fort mouvement étudiant et lycéen des deux derniers mois au #Chili, accompagné d’une importante baisse de popularité du président #Piñera et son équipe, et de dissensions en son sein : lors du remaniement ministériel de cette semaine, si Lavin, ministre de l’éducation, est rétrogradé, deux membres de premier plan de l’UDI (Unión Demócrata Independiente, principal parti soutenant le gouvernement militaire de #Pinochet à l’époque), Chadwin et Longueira, font leur entrée au gouvernement, à des postes clefs.

En effet, Piñera lui-même avait eu une attitude plus distante vis-à-vis de la dictature (à l’époque, il faisait des affaires... et a voté non au plébiscite pour le maintien au pouvoir de Pinochet en 1988). Il est arrivé au pouvoir il y a un an en disant que la droite chilienne avait changé, qu’il faisait plutôt un gouvernement technique, d’experts (comprendre "de patrons"), laissant les "coroneles" historiques de l’UDI de côté.

Un an plus tard, la "nouvelle droite" a fait long feu, et les historiques réapparaissent... En termes symboliques, ça fait mal, à voir ce que ça donnera concrètement, car dans le même temps, Piñera essaie aussi de donner des gages d’ouverture vis-à-vis de la Concertación de centre gauche, par exemple sur l’éducation :

►http://latercera.com/noticia/politica/2011/07/674-382186-9-presidente-pinera-convoca-a-timoneles-de-partidos-a-la-moned