But Chilean leaders reacted negatively, saying the agreement benefited the United States just as much as Chile.

In 2004 he was named as one of the 100 most promising Chilean young leaders by the El Mercurio newspaper's El Sábado magazine.

Having been rather unceremoniously jilted once before, Chilean leaders are understandably skeptical about any timetable the United States proposes.

In August 1816, Poinsett was able to arrange some conferences in Philadelphia between the Chilean leader and some of Napoleon's former officers.

Chilean leaders thus have been looking to a free trade agreement with the United States as a payoff for the reforms they have made, often at considerable political and economic cost.

At that time young Chilean leaders argued that the Presbyterian Church in Chile become an elitist church and not interested in growth and evangelism.

Chilean military leaders have long said that the campaign and the voting would be free of restrictions on civil liberties.

Eduardo Frei Montalva (January 16, 1911 - January 22, 1982) was a Chilean political leader.

The initial arrest warrant was based on a single case of the kidnapping and disappearance of a Chilean leftist leader, Edgardo Henriquez, 35, in 1976.

Leaders of the broad opposition front trying to replace the Chilean leader have repeatedly said that he will be tempted to resort to electoral fraud to retain power.