Events in the year 2021 in Chile.

2021
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Chile

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Incumbents

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Events

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Ongoing — COVID-19 pandemic in Chile

January to March

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  • 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

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Deaths

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Juan Guzmán Tapia
 
Patricio Manns

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References

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  1. ^ "Caso Catrillanca: Ex sargento Carlos Alarcón es declarado culpable de homicidio simple". cnn chile (in European Spanish). 7 January 2021. Retrieved 1 February 2021.
  2. ^ "Carlos Alarcón es condenado a 16 años de cárcel por caso Catrillanca". cnn chile (in European Spanish). 28 January 2021. Retrieved 1 February 2021.
  3. ^ "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.
  4. ^ "Protests erupt in Chile after police fatally shoot street juggler". aljazeera.com. Al Jazeera English. 6 February 2021. Retrieved 6 February 2021.
  5. ^ 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.
  6. ^ 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.
  7. ^ "Coronavirus (COVID-19)". Google News. Retrieved 16 February 2021.
  8. ^ "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.
  9. ^ "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.
  10. ^ "Chile: Senado (Senate): Electoral system". ipu.org. Retrieved 3 January 2021.
  11. ^ "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.
  12. ^ "Amor, adiós: muere Mario Gutiérrez, histórico líder y fundador de Los Ángeles Negros". La Tercera. 21 January 2021. Retrieved 6 August 2023.
  13. ^ "Fallece Juan Guzmán Tapia, el juez que procesó a Augusto Pinochet". www.24horas.cl. Retrieved 6 August 2023.
  14. ^ "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.
  15. ^ "Oliver Welden (1946-2021) - Memoria Chilena, Biblioteca Nacional de Chile". www.memoriachilena.gob.cl. Retrieved 6 August 2023.
  16. ^ Poblete, Álvaro (7 February 2021). "Fallece el Gato Osbén, icónico arquero del fútbol chileno". La Tercera. Retrieved 6 August 2023.
  17. ^ Morales, Natalia (10 March 2021). "Muere Tomás Vidiella, el reconocido actor que cubrió teatro, TV y café concert". La Tercera. Retrieved 6 August 2023.
  18. ^ A los 73 años falleció Uruguay Graffigna, ídolo de San Luis de Quillota Archived 2021-03-14 at the Wayback Machine (in Spanish)
  19. ^ 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.
  20. ^ "A los 71 años muere el escritor magallánico Eugenio Mimica Barassi". laprensaaustral.cl (in Spanish). 27 March 2021. Retrieved 30 March 2021.
  21. ^ "MAC lamenta el fallecimiento de artista Elsa Bolivar". Archived from the original on 9 April 2021.
  22. ^ "Falleció creador de los títeres de 31 Minutos a causa del COVID-19". 22 April 2021.
  23. ^ "A los 92 años falleció Humberto Maturana". El Periodista. 6 May 2021.
  24. ^ "Former Chilean priest at center of abuse scandal dies at 90". Reuters. 26 July 2021. Retrieved 27 July 2021.
  25. ^ "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.
  26. ^ "Falleció el Cardenal Jorge Medina Estévez". www.iglesia.cl. Retrieved 6 August 2023.
  27. ^ "A los 96 años fallece Reinaldo Solari uno de los fundadores de Falabella". 5 October 2021.