"Girl’s rape ignites Chilean abortion tiff" Associated Press, July 06, 2013
SANTIAGO, Chile — The case of a pregnant 11-year old Chilean girl who was raped by her mother’s partner has set off a national debate about abortion in one of the most socially conservative countries in Latin America....
Chile allowed abortions for medical reasons until they were outlawed in 1973 by General Augusto Pinochet’s dictatorship. The current government of conservative President Sebastian Pinera has opposed any loosening of the prohibition.
Also see: Hot Chile
Many Chileans expressed outrage on social media Friday. Some have started an online campaign to demand legalization of abortion in cases of rape or health risks for the mother.
Chile’s Senate rejected three bills last year that would have eased the absolute ban on abortions.
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And at the bottom of the bowl:
"Chile exhumes body of poet Neruda" Associated Press, April 09, 2013
ISLA NEGRA, Chile — Chilean forensic experts exhumed the body of Nobel laureate Pablo Neruda on Monday, trying to solve a four-decade mystery about the death of one of the greatest poets of the 20th century.
The official version is that that the poet died from prostate cancer and the trauma of witnessing the 1973 military coup that led to the persecution and killing of many of his friends. But his driver and many other Chileans say Neruda was poisoned by agents of General Augusto Pinochet .
Neruda was awarded the Nobel Prize for literature in 1971.
He planned to go into exile, where he would have been an influential voice against the dictatorship. Just a day before he was scheduled to leave, he was taken to Santa Maria hospital in Santiago to keep him safe from political persecution.
Neruda died there Sept. 23, 1973, reportedly from natural causes related to the emotional impact of the coup.
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Also see: Eruption of Chile Coverage
Well, not quite, but that's all I've been given by the Globe since we last met.
UPDATE:
"Ex-leader favored in Chilean primary" Associated Press, July 01, 2013
SANTIAGO, Chile — Michelle Bachelet, former president, will face off against Pablo Longueira, former economy minister, in November’s election after Chileans chose the two candidates in the country’s first ever presidential primary on Sunday.
Bachelet won 73 percent of the votes and will lead the center-left New Majority coalition. She is the daughter of a general tortured to death for opposing dictator General Augusto Pinochet’s 1973 military coup. Bachelet was arrested along with her mother.
Longueira, who was close to Pinochet, won 51 percent of the vote to lead the center-right Alliance for Chile bloc.
There is no choice!
Bachelet, 61, spent the past two years heading the UN agency for women after ending her 2006-2010 presidency with high popularity ratings.
Related: Chile Check For Breakfast
She is the frontrunner in the Nov. 17 presidential election and vows to use a second term to fight Chile’s income inequality, change the Pinochet-era constitution, and reform taxes and education.
‘‘Today’s triumph is not the victory of one person, but of millions of Chileans,’’ Bachelet said in a speech.
Longueira, 55, is a civil engineer and one of the founding members of the conservative Independent Democratic Union that supported Pinochet’s dictatorship.
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