| May 24, 2008 | - In parts of Chile five months of rain fell in eight hours, displacing 15,000 people and killing five.
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BBC News
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| November 25, 2006 | - Former Chilean dictator Augusto Pinochet accepted responsibility for everything that occurred during his eighteen-year rule.
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BBC
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| January 15, 2006 | - In Chile socialist and former political prisoner Michelle Bachelet was elected president; she will be the first woman to lead Chile.
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CBC.ca
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| May 21, 2005 | - An avalanche in the Andes killed forty-one Chilean soldiers.
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Houston Chronicle
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| May 20, 2005 | - In Chile, Augusto Pinochet's doctors claimed that Pinochet had suffered a stroke; human-rights lawyers said he was just being wily.
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ABC.net.au
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| March 11, 2005 | - Paul Schaefer, a former member of the Luftwaffe who emigrated to Chile, founded a cult, provided torture facilities for Pinochet, and molested many children, was captured in Argentina.
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Inter-press Service News Agency
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| January 19, 2005 | - Twelve thousand people fled their homes in Concepcion, Chile, after three pranksters ran through a beach shouting that a tsunami was approaching.
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New York Times
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| December 13, 2004 | -
Augusto Pinochet was indicted and placed under house arrest by a Chilean court for the abduction of nine dissidents and the murder of one of them during his dictatorship.
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New York Times
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| August 26, 2004 | - General Augusto Pinochet was stripped of his legal immunity by Chile's supreme court.
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BBC
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| May 29, 2004 | - A Chilean court stripped former dictator Augusto Pinochet of his immunity from prosecution.
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New York Times
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| May 8, 2004 | -
Chile legalized divorce.
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Associated Press
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| October 10, 2003 | -
Chile's congress was debating whether to give workers the legal right to take a siesta.
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Undernews
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| December 3, 2002 | -
The Canadian official who called George W. Bush a moron was forced to resign, and the president, who tried very hard to prevent the creation of an independent commission to investigate the September 11 attacks, named Henry Kissinger to be the commission's chairman. Kissinger, who has been accused of committing war crimes in Vietnam, Cambodia, East Timor, and Chile, said he did not expect to discover any conflicts of interest between his work on the commission and his work as an agent for various undisclosed transnational corporations and foreign powers.
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| March 20, 2001 | -
General Augusto Pinochet of Chile was released on bail pending his trial for accessory to murder and kidnapping.
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| January 16, 2001 | -
Chile's former dictator General Augusto Pinochet changed his mind and decided to undergo psychological examinations to determine whether he was fit to stand trial.
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| December 19, 2000 | -
Slobodan Milosevic was interviewed on Yugoslav television: “I can sleep peacefully,” he said, “and my conscience is completely clear.” Chile's former dictator General Augusto Pinochet was spending peaceful days at his country house, strolling in the garden, playing with his grandchildren.
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| December 5, 2000 | -
Chile's former dictator General Augusto Pinochet was arrested, in Chile.
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| November 28, 2000 | -
Chile's former dictator General Augusto Pinochet took responsibility for the crimes committed by his regime: “As an ex-president, I accept responsibility for all the deeds that the army and armed forces are said to have committed,” he said in a videotaped message played at a celebration of his eighty-fifth birthday.
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| August 15, 2000 | -
Chile's supreme court stripped General Augusto Pinochet of his immunity from prosecution.
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| August 1, 2000 | -
Chile's supreme court refused to allow tests of General Augusto Pinochet's mental competency, thus clearing the way for a trial.
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