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Hernán Valdés
Hernán Valdés (1934 – February 15, 2023) was a Chilean writer, best known for his book ', the first published account of the repression carried out by the military dictatorship led by General Augusto Pinochet. Biography As a writer, Valdés began publishing poetry – his first book appeared in 1954 – but he then moved on to prose. His first novel, ''Cuerpo creciente'', saw the light in 1966, and won the Santiago Municipal Literature Award the following year. Valdés studied film in Prague in the 1960s. He lived a couple of years in Paris, and in 1970 he returned to Chile by sea. Pablo Neruda was also traveling on the ship and Valdés brought the originals of his second novel: ''Zoom''. He left in 1971, under the Popular Unity government, and it would be the last work he published in Chile before departing for exile. On 12 February 1974, after Pinochet's coup d'état, armed civilian agents entered Valdés's apartment in Santiago in search of Miguel Enríquez, leader of t ...
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Chile
Chile, officially the Republic of Chile, is a country in western South America. It is the southernmost country in the world and the closest to Antarctica, stretching along a narrow strip of land between the Andes, Andes Mountains and the Pacific Ocean. Chile had a population of 17.5 million as of the latest census in 2017 and has a territorial area of , sharing borders with Peru to the north, Bolivia to the northeast, Argentina to the east, and the Drake Passage to the south. The country also controls several Pacific islands, including Juan Fernández Islands, Juan Fernández, Isla Salas y Gómez, Desventuradas Islands, Desventuradas, and Easter Island, and claims about of Antarctica as the Chilean Antarctic Territory. The capital and largest city of Chile is Santiago, and the national language is Spanish language, Spanish. Conquest of Chile, Spain conquered and colonized the region in the mid-16th century, replacing Incas in Central Chile, Inca rule; however, they Arauco War ...
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Llolleo
Llolleo, also known as Llo-Lleo, is a town in the commune of San Antonio in the Region of Valparaiso, Chile. It is located 98 km from the capital Santiago and 4 km from the port of San Antonio. The Maipo River, which separates it from the Rocas de Santo Domingo, marks its southern boundary. Llolleo is also referred to as "La Boca" or "historic cove," where small-scale fishing for various seafood and fish is conducted. The name Llolleo originates from the Mapudungun word "Llollehue," meaning "fishing place." The town emerged as a resort town A resort town, resort city or resort destination is an urban area where tourism or vacationing is the primary component of the local culture and economy. A typical resort town has one or more actual resorts in the surrounding area. Sometimes ... after the railway's construction in 1912.http://www.llolleo.cl/portada1.htm References Populated places in San Antonio Province Populated coastal places in Chile Coasts of Va ...
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Chilean Male Poets
Chilean may refer to: * Something of, from, or related to Chile, a country in South America * Chilean people * Chilean Spanish * Chilean culture * Chilean cuisine * Chilean Americans See also *List of Chileans This is a list of Chileans who are famous or notable. Economists * Ricardo J. Caballero – MIT professor, Department of Economics * Sebastian Edwards, Sebastián Edwards – UCLA professor, former World Bank officer (1993–1996), prolific aut ... * {{disambig Language and nationality disambiguation pages ...
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1970s Missing Person Cases
Year 197 ( CXCVII) was a common year starting on Saturday of the Julian calendar. At the time, it was known as the Year of the Consulship of Magius and Rufinus (or, less frequently, year 950 ''Ab urbe condita''). The denomination 197 for this year has been used since the early medieval period, when the Anno Domini calendar era became the prevalent method in Europe for naming years. Events By place Roman Empire * February 19 – Battle of Lugdunum: Emperor Septimius Severus defeats the self-proclaimed emperor Clodius Albinus at Lugdunum (modern Lyon). Albinus commits suicide; legionaries sack the town. * Septimius Severus returns to Rome and has about 30 of Albinus's supporters in the Senate executed. After his victory he declares himself the adopted son of the late Marcus Aurelius. * Septimius Severus forms new naval units, manning all the triremes in Italy with heavily armed troops for war in the East. His soldiers embark on an artificial canal between the Tigris a ...
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1934 Births
Events January–February * January 1 – The International Telecommunication Union, a specialist agency of the League of Nations, is established. * January 15 – The 8.0 1934 Nepal–Bihar earthquake, Nepal–Bihar earthquake strikes Nepal and Bihar with a maximum Mercalli intensity scale, Mercalli intensity of XI (''Extreme''), killing an estimated 6,000–10,700 people. * February 6 – 6 February 1934 crisis, French political crisis: The French far-right leagues rally in front of the Palais Bourbon, in an attempted coup d'état against the French Third Republic, Third Republic. * February 9 ** Gaston Doumergue forms a new government in France. ** Second Hellenic Republic, Greece, Kingdom of Romania, Romania, Turkey and Kingdom of Yugoslavia, Yugoslavia form the Balkan Pact. * February 12–February 15, 15 – Austrian Civil War: The Fatherland Front (Austria), Fatherland Front consolidates its power in a series of clashes across the country. * February 16 – The ...
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List Of Solved Missing Person Cases
Lists of solved missing person cases include: * List of solved missing person cases: pre-1950 * List of solved missing person cases: 1950–1999 * List of solved missing person cases: post-2000 See also

* List of kidnappings * List of murder convictions without a body * List of people who disappeared mysteriously: 1990–present * List of people who disappeared mysteriously: 1910–1990 * List of people who disappeared mysteriously: pre-1910 * List of unsolved deaths * Lists of unsolved murders {{DEFAULTSORT:Solved missing person cases Formerly missing people, Lists of missing people, ...
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