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unusual facts about Government of Chile



Landing craft

In order to support amphibious operations during the landing in Pisagua by carrying significant quantities of cargo, and landing troops directly onto an unimproved shore, the Government of Chile built flat-bottomed landing craft, called Chalanas.


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Angelo Sodano

On 27 December 1998, he wrote, at the request of the democratic government of Chile, an official letter to the British prime minister Tony Blair stating that "the Chilean Government considers it an offence to its territorial sovereignty as a nation the fact of being deprived of the power to judge its own citizens" through the detention of Pinochet in Britain.

Eduardo Bähr

In 1996, along with Mexico's Octavio Paz, Spain's Rafael Alberti, and Nicaragua's Ernesto Cardenal, he was one of 50 intellectuals awarded the Gabriela Mistral Medal by the government of Chile.

El Cocinero de Ross

Sponsored and funded by the Government of Chile's Audiovisual Development Fund, the Illustrious Municipality of Pichilemu, the Ministry of Public Works of Chile, Tren del Vino del Valle de Colchagua, Government of Cardenal Caro Province, the National Forest Corporation (CONAF), amid other organizations and institutions.