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Revenue. $57.370 billion CLP [2] Number of employees. ~12,000. Parent. Walmart (2009–present) Website. www.lider.cl. Líder (Spanish for Leader) is a Chilean hypermarket chain originally owned and operated by Distribución y Servicio (DyS) but sold to US American corporation Walmart in 2009.
Profession. Economist. Nicolás Cirilo Ibáñez Scott (born 11 May 1956) is a Chilean economist and businessman commonly known for having been the owner of the supermarket Líder, [1] [2] a shareholder of Papa John’s, [3] and for founding and financing the libertarian think tank Fundación para el Progreso (FPP) and its icon Axel Kaiser. [4]
Coordinadora Arauco-Malleco ( CAM) is a radical, [4] militant indigenous organization engaged in political violence in pursuit of attaining an autonomous Mapuche state in the territory they describe as Wallmapu . Founded in 1998 in Tranaquepe, Chile, CAM arose from the revitalization of the Mapuche conflict that decade, motivated by the extreme ...
The president's official seat is the La Moneda Palace in the capital Santiago . Michelle Bachelet was the first female president of Chile and served from 2006 to 2010 and from 2014 to 2018. [4] [5] Since 2022, Gabriel Boric is the current president, having won the 2021 Chilean general election and taking office on 11 March 2022.
2019–2022 Chilean protests. Protests in various Chilean cities, most notably Santiago. A series of massive demonstrations and severe riots, known in Chile as the Estallido Social (lit. social outburst ), [13] [14] originated in Santiago and took place in all regions of Chile, with a greater impact in the regional capitals.
Pelao Vade. Rodrigo Ernesto Rojas Vade [1] (born 10 October 1983) [2] is a Chilean former political activist who was elected in 2021 as a member of the Chilean Constitutional Convention. [3] [4] He became an icon of the 2019 Chilean protests [5] falsely claiming to have leukaemia and alleging to be a victim of the healthcare system and using a ...
Lautaro (Anglicized as 'Levtaru') ( Mapudungun: Lef-Traru "swift hawk") ( Spanish pronunciation: [lawˈtaɾo]; c. 1534 – April 29, 1557) was a young Mapuche toqui known for leading the indigenous resistance against Spanish conquest in Chile and developing the tactics that would continue to be employed by the Mapuche during the long-running ...
Chile portal. History portal. v. t. e. Salvador Allende was the president of Chile from 1970 until his suicide in 1973, and head of the Popular Unity government; he was a Socialist and Marxist elected to the national presidency of a liberal democracy in Latin America. [1] [2] In August 1973 the Chilean Senate declared the Allende administration ...