The Chile national football team, nicknamed La Roja, represents Chile in men's international football competitions and is controlled by the Federación de Fútbol de Chile which was established in 1895. Chile has appeared in nine World Cup tournaments and were hosts of the 1962 FIFA World Cup where they finished in third place, the highest position the country has ever achieved in the World Cup.
Transparency International's 2023 Corruption Perceptions Index gave Chile a score of 66 on a scale from 0 to 100. When ranked by score, Chile ranked number 29 among the 180 countries in the Index, where the country ranked number 1 is perceived to have the most honest public sector. For comparison with worldwide scores, the best score was 90, the average score was 43, and the worst score was 11. For comparison with regional scores, the highest score among the countries of the Americas was 76, the average score was 43 and the lowest score was 13.
Arturo Alessandri Besa was a Chilean lawyer and politician. Alessandri was member of his country's Chamber of Deputies and also of the Senate; he also was candidate for the presidency of Chile in the 1993 elections. He was the grandson of Arturo Alessandri Palma and the nephew of Jorge Alessandri, both presidents of Chile.
Jorge Pizarro Soto is a Chilean politician with brief Political Science studies. Since March 1997 he has been a senator for Coquimbo and was the president of the senate from 2010 to 2011. He is a member of the Christian Democratic Party. He is also a member of the editorial committee of the Cambio 21 newspaper.
Sebastián Lelio Watt is a Chilean director, screenwriter, editor and producer. He received critical acclaim for directing the films Gloria (2013) and A Fantastic Woman (2017), the latter of which won an Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film.
The MAS Region, known until 2014 as Broad Social Movement was a Chilean left-wing political party founded by Alejandro Navarro in 2008.
The following lists events that happened during 1983 in Chile.
Patricio Walker Prieto is a Chilean politician. He was President of the Senate between 11 March 2015 and 15 March 2016. He was member of the Senate between 2010 and 2018. From 2007 to 2008 Walker was President of the Chamber of Deputies of Chile. He was member of the Chamber of Deputies between 1998 and 2010. Walker is member of the Christian Democratic Party.
Alberto Baltra Cortés was a Chilean politician and economist, a member of the Radical Party.
Mónica Madariaga Gutiérrez was a Chilean lawyer, academic, and politician, a state minister of the military dictatorship headed by her cousin, Augusto Pinochet, which ruled the country from 1973 to 1990.
Francisco Javier Chahuán Chahuán is a Chilean politician and lawyer. He is the current president of the centre-right party Renovación Nacional.
Juan Antonio Coloma Correa is a Chilean politician who currently serves as a member of the Senate of Chile. Similarly, he is father of the deputy Juan Antonio Coloma Álamos. On 15 March 2023 to 19 March 2024, he was elected President of the Senate.
Miss Grand Chile is a national female beauty pageant in Chile that has been held annually since 2016, founded by Boris Cabrera of Latin Scouting y CBC Producciones, aiming to select country representatives to compete in its parent international contest, Miss Grand International. In 2019, the pageant license was consigned to Keno Manzur, and subsequently transferred to Cristian Chanaca and Gabriel Alfonsino in 2021, Chanaca later withdrew from the director team in 2023.
Miss Grand Chile 2017 was the first edition of the Miss Grand Chile beauty pageant, held on September 22, 2017, at the Centro de Eventos Music Palace, Talca. Contestants from 9 cities competed for the title. Of whom the representative of La Florida, Nicole Ebner, was named the winner. Nicole then represented Chile at Miss Grand International 2017 held on October 25 in Vietnam, but got a non-placement.
Miss Grand Chile 2019 was the second edition of the Miss Grand Chile beauty pageant, held on May 24, 2019, at the Teatro Parque Cousiño, Santiago. Thirty-two candidates competed for the title, of whom the representative of Los Ángeles, Francisca Lavandero, was announced the winner.
Luis Malla Valenzuela is a Chilean politician who is part of the Chamber of Deputies of Chile.
Jorge Miguel Otero Lathrop is a Chilean politician who served as senator and ambassador.
Guillermo Vásquez Úbeda was a Chilean politician who was a senator from 2005 to 2010.
A senatorial by-election was held in Chile on January 11, 1959 to fill a vacant Senate seat for the province of Santiago after the incumbent Jorge Alessandri vacated the seat by being elected president. The election was called by a decree publicized on December 2, 1958.
