La Florida is an urban-suburban commune of Chile located in the South East of Santiago,Santiago Metropolitan Region. It is a residential area and its inhabitants are mostly members of a new middle to upper-middle class. It ranks number 12 out of 346 among Chilean communes in terms of Human Development Index. Its mayor is Rodolfo Carter,a member of Chile Vamos.
General elections were held in Chile on Sunday 13 December 2009 to elect the president,all 120 members of the Chamber of Deputies and 18 of the 38 members of the Senate were up for election. As no presidential candidate received a majority of the vote,a second round was held between the top two candidates—Sebastián Piñera and Eduardo Frei Ruiz-Tagle—on Sunday 17 January 2010. Piñera won the runoff with 52% of the vote and succeeded Michelle Bachelet on 11 March 2010.
Evelyn Rose Matthei Fornet is a Chilean politician and the current mayor of Providencia,a prosperous commune of Santiago,serving since 2016. Prior to her current position,she held the role of member of the Chilean Congress from 1990 to 1998,and subsequently served as a Senator from 1998 to 2011. In January 2011,she left her Senate seat to assume the role of Minister of Labor and Social Security under Chilean President Sebastián Piñera until July 2013. In the 2013 Chilean general election,she ran for President with the support of the Independent Democrat Union Party. However,she lost in a runoff to former President Michelle Bachelet.
Raquel Eliana Argandoña de la Fuente is a Chilean actress,politician,tv host and beauty pageant titleholder. She was mayor of Pelarco. She is best known for her role as the La Quintrala in the 1986 TV mini-series of the same name. Raquel Argandoña was also the 1975 Miss Universo Chile. Raquel is the mother of the actress-singer Raquel Calderón.
The Mayor of Pichilemu is an elected politician who is the head of the executive branch of government of the commune of Pichilemu,Libertador General Bernardo O'Higgins Region,Chile. The mayor presides over the local city council,composed of six members,and serves as the civic representative of the commune. The mayor is popularly elected in a municipal election,by simple majority. The office is held for a four-year term without term limits.
Olga Maturana Espinosa was a Chilean politician born in Santiago. Maturana worked as Councillor of Pichilemu in 1950,and became the first female Mayor of Pichilemu in 1951.
Julio Diego Ibarra Maldonado is a Chilean politician. Ibarra was the Governor of Cardenal Caro Province since he was appointed by President of Chile Sebastián Piñera on March 16,2010. He left office on March 12,2014.
Mario Alejandro Moraga Cáceres is a Chilean politician,who worked as regidor of Pichilemu,O'Higgins Region,between 1967 and 1970. Moraga is popularly known as el Sin Pelos en la Lengua,after the radio program he hosts in Radio Entre Olas.
Sergio Zarzar Andonie is an entrepreneur,conservative political professor Chilean of Palestinian origin,linked to the National Renewal Party.
Rossana Marisol Prado Villegas,is a Chilean physician,psychiatrist and academic who became the first woman to hold the post of president of the University of Chile Student Federation which was founded in 1906;she was the first and only woman until Camila Vallejo assumed the post in August 2010,followed by Scarlett Mac-Ginty in November 2011.
Orlando Cornejo Bustamante was the 37th Mayor of the commune of Pichilemu,office which he held between September 1992 and December 1996,representing the Union of the Centrist Center (UCC). He was the first mayor of Pichilemu to be elected following the Chilean transition to democracy. In 1996 and 2000,he ran again as a candidate in the municipal elections of these years,but failed to be elected in either.
Roxana del Pilar Miranda Meneses is a Chilean activist and politician,candidate for President of Chile for the 2013 election,representing the Partido Igualdad.
Rebeca del Rosario CofréCalderón is a Chilean politician and member of the Independent Democrat Union (UDI). In 2008 she was elected mayor of Chépica,a small commune in Colchagua Province,after running unsuccessfully for the same office four years before. She was re-elected to the office in 2012. In 2013,she was named as one of the 100 Leading Women of Chile by Mujeres Empresarias and the Economía y Negocios section of El Mercurio newspaper.
General elections were held in Chile on 19 November 2017,including presidential,parliamentary and regional elections.
A series of massive demonstrations and severe riots,known in Chile as the Estallido Social,originated in Santiago and took place in all regions of Chile,with a greater impact in the regional capitals. The protests mainly occurred between October 2019 and March 2020,in response to a raise in the Santiago Metro's subway fare,a probity crisis,cost of living,university graduate unemployment,privatisation,and inequality prevalent in the country.
The worldwide pandemic of coronavirus disease 2019 caused by severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 severely affected Chile. The virus was confirmed to have reached Chile on 3 March 2020. Initial cases had been imported from Southeast Asia and Europe,and expanded into a large number of untraceable infections,placing the country within phase 4 of the pandemic as defined by the World Health Organization,with over 1,000 confirmed cases by 25 March 2020.
Óscar Daniel Jadue Jadue is a Chilean architect,sociologist and Marxist politician. A member of the Communist Party of Chile (PCCh),Jadue has served as Mayor of Recoleta since 2012.
Víctor Claudio JoséPérez Varela is a Chilean lawyer and politician. He was Minister of Defense during the second government of the President Sebastián Piñera (2018–2022).
Ximena Leonor Vidal Lázaro is a Chilean actress and politician of the Party for Democracy.
