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  2. Santiago Metro Line 6 - Wikipedia

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    Santiago Metro Line 6 is a line on the Santiago Metro, Santiago, Chile. It connects the commune of Cerrillos, in the south west of the city, with Providencia in the east of the city, where most economic activity is concentrated. It has 10 new stations on 15.3 km (9.5 mi) of track. Its distinctive color on the network line map is purple.

  3. Empresa de los Ferrocarriles del Estado - Wikipedia

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    Since then, the company acquired the railways of the sodium nitrate mining companies in the north of Chile. From 1913 on the network of the EFE extends from Iquique to Puerto Montt . Apart from the company, Chilean Army also built a 60 kilometres (37 mi) small rail line, known to be Puente Alto-El Volcan Railway for Military purpose to ...

  4. Military ranks and insignia of Chile - Wikipedia

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    Officers of the Carabineros, native born or foreign officers having scholarships, start out as officer aspirants at the Carabinier Officers School "Pres. Gen. Carlos Ibanez del Campo" in Santiago, and after graduating become sublieutenants either in Chile or in their home countries. Later training is provided by the Police Sciences Academy also ...

  5. Chilean Navy - Wikipedia

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    Chile also received six British H-class submarines from the Royal Navy in 1917, and purchased three Capitan O'Brien-class submarines and six Serrano-class destroyers in the late 1920s. Its fleet of cruisers, though, all built in the 1890s, were totally outdated by the time the Great Depression forced their retirements without replacements.

  6. Esperanza del Mar - Wikipedia

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    There have been at least three Ships bearing the name Esperanza del Mar (Spanish for 'Hope of the Sea'; [espeˈɾanθa ðel maɾ]), operated by the Instituto Social de la Marina [] (Social Institute of the Navy) on behalf of the Spanish Ministry of Employment and Social Security serving as hospital ships for Spanish fishermen.

  7. Carabineros de Chile - Wikipedia

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    The first policing organization with the name "Carabiniers" was the Corps of Carabineros, in Spanish Cuerpo de Carabineros (with similar meaning as the Italian Carabinieri), formed in 1903 to bring law and order to the conflictive Araucanía region of Southern Chile (then much larger than today's region), formerly the Gendarme Corps, which ...

  8. ESOMAR - Wikipedia

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    ESOMAR was founded in 1947. [1] [a] In 1948 the first version of code of practice for members was published. [4]In 1976 ESOMAR and the ICC determined a single code of practice would be preferable and the first joint code of practice was published in 1977, with revisions in 1986, 1994 and 2007. [3]

  9. Pensions in Chile - Wikipedia

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    The Chile pension system (Spanish: Sistema Previsional) refers to old-age, disability and survivor pensions for workers in Chile. The pension system was changed by José Piñera , during Augusto Pinochet 's dictatorship , on November 4, 1980 from a PAYGO -system to a fully funded capitalization system run by private sector pension funds .