Capital Of Chile

Chile's financial sector has grown faster than other areas of the economy over the last few years; a banking reform law approved in 1997 broadened the scope of permissible foreign activity for Chilean banks. The Chilean Government implemented a further liberalization of capital markets in 2001. Chileans have enjoyed the recent introduction of new financial tools such as home equity loans, currency futures and options, factoring, leasing, and debit cards. The introduction of these new products has been accompanied by increased use of traditional instruments such as loans and credit cards. Chile's private pension system, with assets worth roughly $54 billion in late 2004, has provided an important source of investment capital for the capital market. Chile maintains one of the best credit ratings (S+P A+) in Latin America. There are three main ways Chilean firms raise funds abroad: bank loans, issuance of bonds, and the selling of stock on U.S. markets through American Depository Receipts ... [Read More]

U.S. Dept. of State FOIA - Church Report (Covert Action in Chile 1963-1973)

1. United States Policy and Covert Action In his 1971 State of the World Message, released February 25, 1971, President Nixon announced: "We are prepared to have the kind of relationship with the Chilean government that it is prepared to have with us." This public articulation of American policy followed internal discussions during the NSSM 97 exercise. Charles Meyer, Assistant Secretary of State for Inter-American Affairs, elaborated that "correct but minimal" line in his 1973 testimony before the Senate Foreign Relations Subcommittee on Multinational Corporations: Mr. MEYER. The policy of the Government, Mr. Chairman, was that there would be no intervention in the political affairs of Chile. We were consistent in that we financed no candidates, n ... [Read More]

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International Adoption Chile

(202) 647-5002 Fee: $5.00. For additional information, call the Federal Information Center: 1-800-688-9889, and choose option 6 after you press 1 for touch tone phones. Walk-in service is available from the Authentications Office from 8 a.m. to 12 noon Monday-Friday, except holidays. Walk-in service is limited to 15 documents per person per day (documents can be multiple pages). Processing time for authentication requests sent by mail is 5 working days or less. U. ... [Read More]

U.S.-Chile Free Trade Agreement

In 2002 Chile's exports totaled $18.3 billion, while its imports totaled $15.8 billion. The U.S. exported $2.6 billion worth of goods to Chile in 2002. Major exports to Chile included computer accessories and construction equipment. Chile exported $3.8 billion worth of goods to the U.S. in 2002, with major products including copper, fruit, fish and seafood, and wine.Chile's export marke ... [Read More]

Chile

The term Evangelical in the country is used to refer to all non-Catholic Christian churches with the exception of the Orthodox (Greek, Persian, Serbian, Armenian), the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (Mormons), Seventh-day Adventists, and Jehovah's Witnesses. Approximately 90 percent of Evangelicals are Pentecostal. The number of Protestants and Evangelicals has increased steadily with each census since 1930, when only 1.5 percent of the population claimed to be Protestant. In 2002, Evangelicals totaled 1,699,725 persons, or 15.1 percent of the population over the age of 14 (up from 12.4 percent in 1992). ... [Read More]

US Department Of State Post Report

For children, there are several amusement parks and arcades, including Chuck E. Cheese. There is a zoo in Parque Metropolitano, which is modest by American standards, but relatively clean. It is accessible via an interesting Swiss-built cog railway car. There is a good interactive children�s museum and several children�s theater groups. Many parks in the Providencia, Los Dominicos and Vitacura areas of Santiago have good-quality playground equipment. Both in Santiago and outside of town, there are farms (granjas educativas) that specialize in teaching children about barnyard animals. During the long summer, children can participate in one or more summer camp programs, often organized around a theme such as sports, art and crafts, or the environment. Social Activities Am ... [Read More]

Direcci�n de Asuntos del Hemisferio Occidental: Informaci�n general-- Chile

Las Hojas de Informaci�n consular y las Advertencias de Viaje tambi�n se encuentran en la p�gina de Internet de la Oficina de Asuntos Consulares: http://travel.state.gov. La serie de publicaciones Tips for Travelers, de la misma oficina, con informaci�n sobre c�mo tramitar un pasaporte y c�mo programar un viaje seguro al exterior est�n en Internet. Los ejemplares impresos est�n a la venta en la oficina del Superintendent of Documents, U.S. Government Printing Office, tel�fono: 202-512-1800; fax 202-512-2250. ... [Read More]

V. Country Narratives -- Countries A through G

Cyprus is a destination country for women trafficked from Eastern and Central Europe for the purpose of sexual exploitation. Traffickers who forced women into prostitution continued to fraudulently recruit victims for work as dancers in cabarets and nightclubs on short-term "artiste" visas, for work in pubs and bars on employment visas, or for illegal work on tourist or student visas. There was increasing evidence of Chinese women being trafficked for sexual exploitation in Cyprus. The Government of Cyprus does not fully comply with the minimum standards for the elimination of trafficking; however, it is making significant efforts to do so. Cyprus made some progress in its anti-trafficking efforts over the past year. The new police anti-trafficking unit produced successful results and showed vigilance in combating the problem. Government recognition of the problem improve ... [Read More]

USIA, Economic Perspectives, January 1997 -- FINANCE

In developing countries inparticular,IPOs often add a considerable supply of securities, stimulatecapital market activities, and help create a new class of capitalowners. The flurry of privatization activities in Chile was theprincipal reason for the rapid expansion of the Santiago stockexchange, the capitalization of which multiplied nearly fivefoldbetween 1989 and 1993. ...

Management and employee buyouts (MBOs and EBOs,) as well asemployee stock ownership plans (ESOPs), are useful means oftransferring ownership to SOE management and employees. An ESOPis an ownership plan in which a firm's employees acquire stock,usually with the assistance of a corporate trust fund, but do notaccumulate a majority of the voting shares. In the case of anMBO, as well, the transfer of ownership is to a relatively smalland homogeneous group of existing managers, which may encourageefficient operations because managers now share in potentialprofits. An EBO attempts to garner the same corporate governanceadvantages of an inside buyout while promoting broader ownershipof a company's assets. In cases where individual workers lackthe private resources to acquire stock in their company, an ESOPcan subsidize share purchases via a company-established trustfund. ... [Read More]