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Chile: United States
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Chile has 32 National Parks, 13 Natural Monuments, and 47 National Reserves, which cover more than 30 million acres. Yet many state lands in Chile are only “paper parks”: the protections are not enforced, making acquisitions such as those coordinated by AFI so necessary. AFI was a key force in kickstarting the movement to acquire and permanently protect critical, threatened forest areas in Chile. When AFI first became involved, Chile had at the most a handful of private parks; now there are more than 140, translating into hundreds of thousands of protected acres.
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Chile was originally under the control of the Incas in the north and the nomadic Araucanos in the south. In 1541, a Spaniard, Pedro de Valdivia, founded Santiago. Chile won its independence from Spain in 1818 under Bernardo O'Higgins and an Argentinian, José de San Martin. O'Higgins, dictator until 1823, laid the foundations of the modern state with a two-party system and a centralized government.
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Chile's judiciary is independent and includes a court of appeal, a system of military courts, a constitutional tribunal, and the Supreme Court. In June 2005, Chile completed a nation-wide overhaul of its criminal justice system. The reform has replaced inquisitorial proceedings with an adversarial system more similar to that of the United States.
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A legal attack on a hormone now underway in Chile will help determine whether Chilean teenagers – and older women – are more or less likely to give birth to unwanted children. A group of Chilean parliamentarians is currently seeking to derail Chile’s state-of-the-art medical protocols regarding emergency contraception. But their efforts are fuelled by scientific ignorance and could have dire consequences for Chilean women’s health and well being.
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The dependence of the economy on copper prices and the production of an adequate food supply are two of Chile's major economic problems. Chile's main imports are petroleum and petroleum products, chemicals, electrical and telecommunications equipment, industrial machinery, vehicles, and natural gas. In addition to minerals, it ... exports fruit, fish and fish products, paper and pulp, chemicals, and wine. The chief trading partners are the United States, China, Brazil, Argentina, and South Korea.
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In 1920, the Ashkenazi population in Santiago united and formed the Ciculo Israelita, the main Jewish organization in Chile today. Today the Comite Representative de las Entidades Judias de Chile (Respresentative Committee of the Jewish Organizations in Chile, or the CREJ), is the organization responsible for community activities.
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