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Chile-related evens during 2021
Events in the year 2021 in
Chile .
Incumbents
Events
Ongoing —
COVID-19 pandemic in Chile
January to March
4 January - The University Transition Test that replaced the PSU is carried out, with fewer questions and with a strict health protocol due to the pandemic.
7 January – Former
GOPE sergeant Carlos Alarcón is found guilty of the murder of
Camilo Catrillanca .
[1] A few days later he is sentenced to 16 years in prison.
[2]
30 January – A fire at San Borja Arriarán hospital in
Santiago required 20 companies of
firefighters to control, but the patients were all safely evacuated to nearby hospitals.
[3]
5 February – Hundreds protest and municipal buildings are set on fire in
Panguipulli after police kill a street performer.
[4]
10 February – The government announces it will deport 2,000 undocumented immigrants, mostly from Venezuela. The town of
Colchane ,
Tamarugal Province , has expanded from a population of 300 to 1,700 since 1 February.
[5]
11 February –
Mónica Zalaquett , Minister of Women and Gender Equity, condemns comments by councilor Iván Roca (
Independent Democratic Union ) of
Lota, Biobío Region , excusing his 33-year-old son′s rape of a 12-year-old girl because the girl had ″the body of a woman″.
[6]
15 February – COVID-19: 779,541 total cases since the outbreak of the pandemic, 19,624 deaths, 2,147,272 doses of vaccine administered
[7]
4 March –
Tsunami alert following earthquakes near the
Kermadec Islands ,
New Zealand
[8]
Scheduled events
Deaths
Juan Guzmán Tapia
Patricio Manns
3 January –
Manola Robles , journalist (b. 1948).
[11]
20 January -
Mario Gutiérrez , musician, member of
Los Ángeles Negros (b.
1949 )
[12]
22 January -
Juan Guzmán Tapia , judge (
Augusto Pinochet's arrest and trial ), (b.
1939 ).
[13]
27 January – Ignacio Tejeda, 17, tennis player; cancer.
[14]
31 January -
Oliver Welden , award-winning poet (born 1946)
[15]
7 February –
Mario Osbén , 69, footballer (
Colo-Colo ,
Cobreloa ,
national team ); heart attack.
[16]
10 March –
Tomás Vidiella , 83, film director and actor; COVID-19.
[17]
13 March –
Uruguay Graffigna , 73, Uruguayan-Chilean footballer (
San Luis de Quillota ,
Los Angeles Aztecs ,
PEC Zwolle ); complications from COVID-19 and Alzheimer's disease.
[18]
19 March –
Cristián Cuturrufo , 48, jazz trumpeter; COVID-19.
[19]
27 March –
Eugenio Mimica Barassi , 71, writer (born 1949).
[20]
8 April –
Elsa Bolívar , 91, painter.
[21]
22 April – Armando Jofré, 44, artist and puppet maker (
31 Minutos ); COVID-19.
[22]
6 May –
Humberto Maturana , 92, philosopher and biologist (born 1928).
[23]
25 July –
Fernando Karadima , 90, catholic priest accused of sexual abuse (born 1930).
[24]
25 September –
Patricio Manns , 84, singer (born 1973)
[25]
3 October –
Jorge Medina , 94, cardinal (born 1926).
[26]
5 October – Reinaldo Solari, 96, businessman (born 1925).
[27]
See also
References
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"Caso Catrillanca: Ex sargento Carlos Alarcón es declarado culpable de homicidio simple" . cnn chile (in European Spanish). 7 January 2021. Retrieved 1 February 2021 .
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"Carlos Alarcón es condenado a 16 años de cárcel por caso Catrillanca" . cnn chile (in European Spanish). 28 January 2021. Retrieved 1 February 2021 .
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"Un gran incendio afectó al sector pediátrico del hospital San Borja Arriarán de Santiago de Chile: evacuaron a los pacientes" . infobae (in European Spanish). 30 January 2021. Retrieved 30 January 2021 .
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"Protests erupt in Chile after police fatally shoot street juggler" . aljazeera.com . Al Jazeera English. 6 February 2021. Retrieved 6 February 2021 .
^ Anfossi, Aldo (10 February 2021).
"Expulsará gobierno chileno a casi 2 mil migrantes, la mayoría venezolanos" . jornada.com.mx (in Spanish). La Jornada. Retrieved 10 February 2021 .
^ Torres, Cristián (11 February 2021).
"Escándalo en Chile por un político que defendió a su hijo acusado de violar a una niña de 12 años: "tenía cuerpo de mujer" " . infobae (in European Spanish). Retrieved 11 February 2021 .
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"Coronavirus (COVID-19)" . Google News . Retrieved 16 February 2021 .
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"Chile emitió una alerta roja ante la amenaza de tsunami tras el sismo en Nueva Zelanda" . infobae (in European Spanish). 4 March 2021. Retrieved 6 March 2021 .
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"El presidente de Chile pidió aplazar las elecciones previstas para abril por la nueva ola de COVID-19" . infobae (in European Spanish). 29 March 2021. Retrieved 29 March 2021 .
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"Chile: Senado (Senate): Electoral system" . ipu.org . Retrieved 3 January 2021 .
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"Comunidad universitaria lamenta fallecimiento de la destacada periodista Manola Robles" . uchile.cl (in Spanish). Archived from
the original on 3 January 2021. Retrieved 6 January 2021 .
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"Amor, adiós: muere Mario Gutiérrez, histórico líder y fundador de Los Ángeles Negros" . La Tercera . 21 January 2021. Retrieved 6 August 2023 .
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"Fallece Juan Guzmán Tapia, el juez que procesó a Augusto Pinochet" . www.24horas.cl . Retrieved 6 August 2023 .
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"Profundo dolor en el deporte por la muerte del tenista Ignacio Tejeda a los 17 años" . infobae (in European Spanish). 27 January 2021. Retrieved 27 January 2021 .
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"Oliver Welden (1946-2021) - Memoria Chilena, Biblioteca Nacional de Chile" . www.memoriachilena.gob.cl . Retrieved 6 August 2023 .
^ Poblete, Álvaro (7 February 2021).
"Fallece el Gato Osbén, icónico arquero del fútbol chileno" . La Tercera . Retrieved 6 August 2023 .
^ Morales, Natalia (10 March 2021).
"Muere Tomás Vidiella, el reconocido actor que cubrió teatro, TV y café concert" . La Tercera . Retrieved 6 August 2023 .
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A los 73 años falleció Uruguay Graffigna, ídolo de San Luis de Quillota
Archived 2021-03-14 at the
Wayback Machine (in Spanish)
^ N, Claudio Vergara y Pablo Retamal (20 March 2021).
"Muere Cristián Cuturrufo: adiós al hombre imprescindible del jazz chileno" . La Tercera . Retrieved 6 August 2023 .
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"A los 71 años muere el escritor magallánico Eugenio Mimica Barassi" . laprensaaustral.cl (in Spanish). 27 March 2021. Retrieved 30 March 2021 .
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"MAC lamenta el fallecimiento de artista Elsa Bolivar" . Archived from
the original on 9 April 2021.
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"Falleció creador de los títeres de 31 Minutos a causa del COVID-19" . 22 April 2021.
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"A los 92 años falleció Humberto Maturana" . El Periodista . 6 May 2021.
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"Former Chilean priest at center of abuse scandal dies at 90" . Reuters . 26 July 2021. Retrieved 27 July 2021 .
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"A los 84 años fallece Patricio Manns, escritor y cantautor clave de la Nueva Canción Chilena" . El Mostrador . 25 September 2021. Retrieved 6 August 2023 .
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"Falleció el Cardenal Jorge Medina Estévez" . www.iglesia.cl . Retrieved 6 August 2023 .
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"A los 96 años fallece Reinaldo Solari uno de los fundadores de Falabella" . 5 October 2021.