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Gloria Hutt
Gloria de los Ángeles Hutt Hesse (born 31 January 1955) is a Chilean politician and journalist, militant from Political Evolution (Evópoli/EVOP), a conservative-liberal and centre-right party. In October 2022 Hutt was elected president of Political Evolution. Within the party she is considered close to Ignacio Briones and more distant to the founding group of the party which is more classically right-wing and includes Felipe Kast and Luciano Cruz-Coke. In 1990s, she was the vice-president of CEMA Chile, organization linked to Lucía Hiriart, wife of General Augusto Pinochet Augusto José Ramón Pinochet Ugarte (, , , ; 25 November 1915 – 10 December 2006) was a Chilean general who ruled Chile from 1973 to 1990, first as the leader of the Military Junta of Chile from 1973 to 1981, being declared President of .... References External links * 1955 births Living people Chilean people of Swiss-German descent Pontifical Catholic University of Chile alumni G ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Santiago, Chile
Santiago (, ; ), also known as Santiago de Chile, is the capital (political), capital and largest city of Chile as well as one of the largest cities in the Americas. It is the center of Chile's most densely populated Regions of Chile, region, the Santiago Metropolitan Region, whose total population is 8 million which is nearly 40% of the country's population, of which more than 6 million live in the city's continuous urban area. The city is entirely in the country's Chilean Central Valley, central valley. Most of the city lies between above mean sea level. Founded in 1541 by the Spanish conquistador Pedro de Valdivia, Santiago has been the capital city of Chile since colonial times. The city has a downtown core of 19th-century neoclassical architecture and winding side-streets, dotted by art deco, neo-gothic, and other styles. Santiago's cityscape is shaped by several stand-alone hills and the fast-flowing Mapocho River, lined by parks such as Parque Forestal and Balm ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Radio Agricultura
Radio Agricultura (originally ''Radio Sociedad Nacional de Agricultura'') is a Chilean radio broadcasting network belonging to the association of landowners, Sociedad Nacional de Agricultura (SNA). It is run by ''Publicaciones y Difusión SA'' (which is owned by the SNA), the studios are at Edificio Pamplona. It was founded in 1935 in Valparaíso and inaugurated on October 30, 1936 in Santiago de Chile. Its concession goes back to Decree No. 3633 of August 30, 1935, subsequently published in the Diario Oficial on September 11, 1935. It takes a conservative editorial line. History The SNA decided to create a means of making its activities known to the public. Beginning the project in Valparaiso in 1935, on October 15, 1936, in Santiago, radio transmissions began at a frequency of 570 kHz on the Medium wave band. Radio Agricultura was influential in making Mexican music popular in rural areas of Chile. Radio Agricultura won notoriety and influence because, along with the Chi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1955 Births
Events January * January 3 – José Ramón Guizado becomes president of Panama. * January 17 – , the first nuclear-powered submarine, puts to sea for the first time, from Groton, Connecticut. * January 18– 20 – Battle of Yijiangshan Islands: The Chinese Communist People's Liberation Army seizes the islands from the Republic of China (Taiwan). * January 22 – In the United States, The Pentagon announces a plan to develop intercontinental ballistic missiles (ICBMs), armed with nuclear weapons. * January 23 – The Sutton Coldfield rail crash kills 17, near Birmingham, England. * January 25 – The Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the Soviet Union announces the end of the war between the USSR and Germany, which began during World War II in 1941. * January 28 – The United States Congress authorizes President Dwight D. Eisenhower to use force to protect Formosa from the People's Republic of China. February * February 10 – The United States Sev ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
El Mostrador
El Mostrador is a Chilean online newspaper, founded on 1 March 2000. Its current president is Germán Olmedo Acedvedo and its director is Federico Joannon Errázuriz. History ''El Mostrador'' was launched on 1 March 2000 and is Chile's first exclusively digital newspaper. On 20 November 2001, part of its journalistic content was paywalled, but in 2007 it was reopened, completely free of charge. As of 2012, its historical databases are also free and open access. On 25 May 2010 the newspaper launched an online television channel, «El Mostrador TV», that was transmitted for a digital television signal on channels 24, 26, 27, 28, 30 and 33 within the ring of Américo Vespucio Avenue in Santiago. Organization ''El Mostrador'' it is an ideology Pluralist journal owned by La Plaza S.A. Its president is Germán Olmedo Acevedo, while its vice president is Federico Joannon Errázuriz. The journalistic director is Héctor Cossio López and the deputy director is Iván Weissman. Content T ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Augusto Pinochet
Augusto José Ramón Pinochet Ugarte (, , , ; 25 November 1915 – 10 December 2006) was a Chilean general who ruled Chile from 1973 to 1990, first as the leader of the Military Junta of Chile from 1973 to 1981, being declared President of the Republic by the junta in 1974 and becoming the ''de facto'' dictator of Chile, and from 1981 to 1990 as ''de jure'' President after a new Constitution, which confirmed him in the office, was approved by a referendum in 1980. His rule remains the longest of any Chilean leader in history. Huneeus, Carlos (2007)Las consecuencias del caso Pinochet en la política chilena Centro de. Estudios de la Realidad Contemporánea. Augusto Pinochet rose through the ranks of the Chilean Army to become General Chief of Staff in early 1972 before being appointed its Commander-in-Chief on 23 August 1973 by President Salvador Allende. On 11 September 1973, Pinochet seized power in Chile in a coup d'état, with the support of the US, Winn, Peter. 2010 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
General
A general officer is an Officer (armed forces), officer of highest military ranks, high rank in the army, armies, and in some nations' air forces, space forces, and marines or naval infantry. In some usages the term "general officer" refers to a rank above colonel."general, adj. and n.". OED Online. March 2021. Oxford University Press. https://www.oed.com/view/Entry/77489?rskey=dCKrg4&result=1 (accessed May 11, 2021) The term ''general'' is used in two ways: as the generic title for all grades of general officer and as a specific rank. It originates in the Tudor period, 16th century, as a shortening of ''captain general'', which rank was taken from Middle French ''capitaine général''. The adjective ''general'' had been affixed to officer designations since the late Middle Ages, late medieval period to indicate relative superiority or an extended jurisdiction. Today, the title of ''general'' is known in some countries as a four-star rank. However, different countries use di ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lucía Hiriart
María Lucía Hiriart Rodríguez (10 December 1923 – 16 December 2021), also known as Lucía Hiriart de Pinochet, was married to former Chilean dictator Augusto Pinochet. Early life and education Hiriart was born into a wealthy family in Antofagasta, on 10 December 1923 to Osvaldo Hiriart Corvalán, a lawyer, former Radical Party senator, and former Interior Minister of president Juan Antonio Ríos; and Lucía Rodríguez Auda de Hiriart, of Basque French descent. Legal accusations In 2005, Hiriart was sued by Chile’s Internal Tax Service (''Servicio de Impuestos Internos'') over tax evasion totaling US$2.35 million and was arrested with her son Marco Antonio a few months later. In October 2007, she was arrested again in the frame of the Riggs Bank case, along with Pinochet's five children and 17 other people (including two generals, one of his former lawyers and his former secretary) on charges of embezzlement and use of false passports. They were accused of having ill ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
CEMA Chile
CEMA or Cema may stand for: *CEMA = Council for the Encouragement of Music and the Arts, predecessor (1940) of the Arts Council of Great Britain *CEMA (European agricultural machinery), an agricultural machinery association in Europe * CEMA, The Council for Mutual Economic Assistance *CEMA (record label distributor), a branch of Capitol-EMI *California Ethnic and Multicultural Archives a repository of primary source materials from California's ethnic history *Centre d'Essais de Matériels Aériens, a French aircraft test centre at Vélizy – Villacoublay Air Base *Centro de Estudios Macroeconómicos de Argentina or Universidad del CEMA, a university in Buenos Aires *''Chef d'État-Major des Armées'', the Chief of the Defence Staff of France *Committee for the Encouragement of Music and the Arts, the predecessor to the Arts Council of Great Britain *Consumer Electronics Manufacturers Association, now the Consumer Electronics Association *Japan Construction Equipment Manufacturers ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Luciano Cruz-Coke
Luciano Cruz-Coke Carvallo (born July 1, 1970 in Santiago, Chile) is a Chilean actor, and was the Minister of Arts and Culture under the 35th President Sebastián Piñera. Biography Cruz-Coke is the son of lawyer and university professor Carlos Cruz-Coke Ossa and Lucía Carvallo Arriagada. His brother is Carlos Cruz-Coke Carvallo, Councilman of Vitacura in Santiago; the nephew of cultural manager Marta Cruz-Coke and grandnephew of physician-politician Eduardo Cruz-Coke (Marta's father). Cruz-Coke studied in the Colegio de los Sagrados Corazones de Manquehue. He went on to study law in the Universidad Finis Terrae, later changing his major to Architecture and finally became an actor. He studied acting at the Lee Strasberg Theatre and Film Institute in New York City. He holds a degree in Documentary Filming from the Academy of Christian Humanism University and a master's degree in Mass Communications from University of Chile. Career Cruz-Coke has a fifteen-year acting career in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Felipe Kast
Felipe José Kast Sommerhoff (born 9 June 1977) is a Chilean economist, researcher, consultant, and politician. Early life and family Kast is a nephew of far-right politician José Antonio Kast and son of the late economist Miguel Kast, who served as Minister of State and President of the Central Bank under the dictatorship of Augusto Pinochet. He is also the grandson of Michael Kast, a German officer who escaped American custody, obtained a false identity, and migrated to Chile in 1950, and great-great-great-grandson of German composers Robert Schumann and Clara Schumann. Career A graduate in economics from the Pontifical Catholic University of Chile with a PhD from Harvard University, Kast has been Minister of Planning, presidential candidate in the 2017 primary elections and deputy for the commune of Santiago between 2014 and 2018. He currently serves as senator for the Araucanía Region after being elected to a six-year term in the 2017 parliamentary elections. As a righ ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ignacio Briones
Ignacio Briones Rojas (born 12 December 1972) is a Chilean economist, scholar and politician who served as Minister of Finance in the second government of Sebastián Piñera from 2019 until 2021. Prior to this appointment, Ignacio served as Dean of the School of Government of Adolfo Ibáñez University. Early life and education Briones is a commercial engineer, a graduate in Economics, Master in Economics and Political Sciences from the Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile and Doctor in Political Economy from the Paris Institute of Political Studies. Early career Briones worked as a professor and researcher at the School of Government and the Business School of the Adolfo Ibáñez University, focusing on areas such as Political Economy and Economic and Financial History. He has also been a consultant for the Inter-American Development Bank , the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and companies such as VTR and the stock brokerage LarraínVial. Political career During the first ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ex-Ante (online Newspaper)
''Ex-Ante'' is news website covering Chilean politics. The website was created in late 2020 by journalist Cristián Bofill. Reportedly it was modeled on the existing news website ''Politico''. The site is onwed by the company CBR Servicios Periodísticos SpA that Bofill created on August 19, 2020. Various of the involved journalist have a background either in ''La Tercera'' or ''El Mercurio''.January 22, 2021¿Quiénes están detrás del medio digital Ex-Ante?''ilustrado.cl'' It has been described as personal project of Bofill who in 2021 sought to increase its capital with 1,575 million Chilean pesos.Mendoza V., Luis. September 28, 2021Cristián Bofill busca una inyección de $1. 550 millones para Ex-Ante''litoralpress.cl'' According to academic and politician Alberto Mayol ''Ex-Ante'' has been targeting Mayor of Recoleta Daniel Jadue Óscar Daniel Jadue Jadue (born 28 June 1967) is a Chilean architect, sociologist and Marxist politician. A member of the Communist Party of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
