{"id":375,"date":"2007-03-01T08:09:35","date_gmt":"2007-03-01T07:09:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/wordpress\/?p=375"},"modified":"2007-03-01T08:09:35","modified_gmt":"2007-03-01T07:09:35","slug":"forgotten-world-69-chile","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/?p=375","title":{"rendered":"Forgotten world (69): Chile"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Chile\">Chile<\/a> &#8211; a Latin American country of 16.5M &#8211; has an unusual, ribbon-like shape &#8211; 4,300 km long and on average 175 km wide &#8211; which gives it a hugely varied climate. This ranges from the world&#8217;s driest desert &#8211; the Atacama &#8211; in the north, through a Mediterranean climate in the centre, to a snow-prone Alpine climate in the south, with glaciers, fjords and lakes.<br \/>\nChile is one of South America&#8217;s most stable and prosperous nations. It has been relatively free of the coups and arbitrary governments that have blighted the continent. The exception was the 17-year rule of General Augusto Pinochet, whose 1973 coup was one of the bloodiest in 20th-century Latin America and whose dictatorship left more than 3,000 people dead and missing.<br \/>\nThe authoritarian Pinochet-era constitution has been revised and the judicial system overhauled. Chile is now relatively free of crime and official corruption. The country had Latin America&#8217;s fastest-growing economy in the 1990s and has weathered recent regional economic instability. But it faces the challenges of having to diversify its copper-dependent economy &#8211; it is the largest world producer &#8211; and of addressing uneven wealth distribution.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Chile &#8211; a Latin American country of 16.5M &#8211; has an unusual, ribbon-like shape &#8211; 4,300 km long and on average 175 km wide &#8211; which gives it a hugely varied climate. This ranges from the world&#8217;s driest desert &#8211; the Atacama &#8211; in the north, through a Mediterranean climate in the centre, to a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-375","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-world-current-affairs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/375","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=375"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/375\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=375"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=375"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=375"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}