Chile Presents Official Bid To Host World’s Largest Telescope

Bodies of those arrested during the coup were originally thrown into the sea

Remains of 11 former supporters of president Salvador Allende who were arrested at La Moneda on the day of the 9/11/73 coup have been identified, the Servicio Médico Legal (SML) confirmed this week.

Their bodies or parts of their bodies were found at a former military base in Peldehue, north of Santiago. Doctor Patricio Bustos notified the families of the victims Monday after first informing Judge Juan Eduardo Fuentes Belmar, who is investigating disappearances from La Moneda after the 1973 coup.

While forestry giant agrees to cough up US$1.1 million for river pollution damages

Environmentalists from southern Chile sent President Michelle Bachelet a letter Monday expressing their frustration with the government’s failure to seriously address contamination coming from one of Chile’s most notorious polluters – wood pulp manufacturer CELCO S.A.

In 2004, liquid waste from a newly completed CELCO plant was flushed into the Cruces River, upstream from Valdivia, leading to the death of thousands of black necked swans and endangering the integrity of a nearby nature reserve — Carlos Anwandter Reserve.  

In 2007, another CELCO plant near Talca (Region VII) flushed 70,000 cubic meters of waste into the Mataquito River – killing thousands of fish and ultimately leading to a US$1 million out-of-court settlement announced just this week.

A study by conservative think-tank El Instituto Libertad y Desarollo found that over half the students receiving substantial grants to do graduate work at foreign universities are capable of paying for their education by themselves. 

“Chilean scholarships were created to improve the quality of our students without economic prerequisites, but the money is mostly going to people with economic power and who don’t need state funding,” said study author Pablo Eguiguren.