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Ash cloud from Chile stretches across South America

Sunday, May 11th, 2008
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Ash cloud stretches across S America - ABC News (Australian Broadcasting Corporation)

The eruption of a long-dormant volcano in southern Chile has created an enormous cloud of ash that has spread hundreds of kilometres to the east, across Argentina and Uruguay.

The authorities in Chile have set up a 50-kilometre exclusion area around the Chaiten volcano and evacuated at least 6,000 people.

Saving the USA

Friday, April 11th, 2008
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Bloomberg.com: Latin America
April 11 (Bloomberg) — Chile’s central bank, under pressure from lawmakers and exporters to weaken the peso, plans to buy U.S. dollars in currency markets to shield the economy from global financial turmoil.

“The central bank’s council decided today to intervene in the foreign-exchange market to strengthen the international liquidity position of the Chilean economy,” the bank said in a statement on its Web site last night.

CHILE RALLIES AGAINST POSSIBLE “MORNING-AFTER PILL” BAN

Friday, April 4th, 2008
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The Santiago Times - English Language Newspaper in Santiago, Chile - News in Chile and Latin America | Home

CHILE RALLIES AGAINST POSSIBLE “MORNING-AFTER PILL” BANFriday, 04 April 2008Advocates Warn Of “An Attack on the Freedom of Chile’s People”Health_ministerChilean Health Minister Soledad Barría defends the government’s distribution of the morning after pill.Chilean NGOs, citizens, and politicians of all stripes said Thursday that they are prepared to challenge any judicial ruling that jeopardizes the availability of emergency contraception.