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List of political scandals in Chile

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This is a list of major political scandals in Chile.

1800s

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  • "Scorpion" scandal (1809) – a smuggling scandal that caused the fall of the Royal Governor and hastened Chilean Independence

1810s

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1820s

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1830s

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1840s

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1850s

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1860s

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1870s

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1880s

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1890s

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1900s

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  • Meat riots in Santiago, Chile in October 1905 were the earliest and one of the biggest riots to take place in Chile
  • Santa María de Iquique School Massacre ("Matanza de la Escuela Santa María de Iquique") (1907) – the slaughter of hundreds of striking saltpeter workers in Iquique at the hands of the police and military forces

1910s

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1920s

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1930s

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1940s

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1950s

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1960s

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1970s

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For a more extensive list of scandals and crimes committed during the Pinochet era, see
Rettig Report
Valech Report
Human Rights Violations of the Chilean dictatorship

1980s

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1990s

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2000s

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2010s

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  • 2010 Santiago prison fire killed 81 inmates in Chile's deadliest prison incident
  • Karadima case (2010-ongoing) – pedophilia case involving Catholic priest Fernando Karadima and an alleged protection network which includes Cardinal Francisco Javier Errázuriz and businessman Eliodoro Matte.
  • Kodama case (2010–11) – The Ministry of Housing and Urban Planning was ready to pay 17,000,000,000 Chilean Pesos (approximately 24,000,000 Euro in 2011) to a building contractor "Kodama" for works that were valued in maximal 3,000,000,000 Chilean Pesos.
  • 7.926 students displaced with the closing of Universidad del Mar[8][9]
  • Pedro Velásquéz, second vice president of the Chamber of Deputies of Chile, was suspended by the Ethics Committee after the discovery of a debt of CLP 280-million (roughly US$593,427) that Velásquez owes the commune of Coquimbo via tax fraud.[10]
  • Larraín case: Martín Larraín Hurtado, son of Carlos Larraín (senator and president of the right-wing party National Renewal), was acquitted after killing a man in a DUI hit and run. The scandal inspired the film Much Ado About Nothing[11] and the political thriller telenovela Juegos de poder.[12]
  • Penta case: irregular financing of political candidates by means of 258 fake records, among them IVA (value-added tax) receipts and payments for fictitious services, adding up to a total of some US$1.2 million. The probe evolved from the FUT-gate[13]
  • Caval case: a real estate company, owned to 50% by Michelle Bachelet's daughter-in-law, made US$5,000,000 profit in a transaction based on classified information and influence peddling.[14]
  • SQM case SQM Lithium mining company facilitated the payment of campaign contributions by persons submitting false invoices to the tax authorities for work not done. Same legal issues as the Penta Case.
  • Corpesca is an ongoing investigation into payments made by the industrial fishery Corpesca to certain politicians to influence the distribution of quotas to each fishing company.
  • Milicogate
  • Pacogate

2020s

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References

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  1. ^ Líos entre católicos
  2. ^ Chilean magazine "Punto Final", La matanza de San Gregorio, retrieved on 23 April 2012
  3. ^ Article La “cutufa” de los gremialistas
  4. ^ "Chile: Concerns on Torture and other cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment: Implementation of the United Nations Convention Against Torture and other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment | Amnesty International". Archived from the original on 2018-11-22. Retrieved 2018-11-21.
  5. ^ Helen Spooner, Soldiers in a narrow land: the Pinochet regime in Chile, url
  6. ^ "C.11 Doesn't neo-liberalism in Chile prove that the free market benefits everyone? – Anarchist Writers".
  7. ^ Gabriel Valdés: Un aristócrata en la política Archived 2012-03-31 at the Wayback Machine
  8. ^ Closure of Universidad del Mar Causes Uproar Archived 2013-04-04 at the Wayback Machine, retrieved on 26 January 2013
  9. ^ Cifras oficiales revelan que alumnos de U. del Mar son la mitad de lo informado inicialmente
  10. ^ Pedro Velásquez’s VP Term Short-Lived Archived 2013-04-22 at the Wayback Machine
  11. ^ 'Much Ado About Nothing' Review: Outrage Over a Chilean Hit-and-Run
  12. ^ Las similitudes de Juegos de Poder y el caso de Martín Larraín
  13. ^ Chile’s Penta Case Pulls Dozens into Corruption Scandal retrieved on 25 February 2015
  14. ^ CIPER in El historial financiero de CAVAL, retrieved on 13.March.2015
  15. ^ Meza, Cristián (2023-07-05). "Caso Clínica Sierra Bella: Irací Hassler declaró en calidad de imputada". El Dínamo (in Spanish). Retrieved 2023-07-10.
  16. ^ Batarce, Catalina (2023-07-02). "Caso Sierra Bella: tasadores compartían grupo de WhatsApp con alta funcionaria de Santiago". La Tercera (in Spanish). Retrieved 2023-07-10.
  17. ^ Mondaca, Gabriela; Batarce, Catalina (2023-07-05). "Irací Hassler declara como imputada por caso Sierra Bella: cuáles son los flancos que intentará aclarar". La Tercera (in Spanish). Retrieved 2023-07-10.
  18. ^ "Luis Hermosilla, día final: la trastienda de la audiencia en la que jueza envió al abogado a cumplir prisión preventiva a Santiago 1". La Tercera (in Spanish). 2024-08-27. Retrieved 2024-09-19.
  19. ^ "Los $239 millones que los gobiernos de Piñera le pagaron a Hermosilla y a su estudio jurídico a través de boletas y convenios". CIPER (in Spanish). 2024-03-19. Retrieved 2024-09-19.
  20. ^ "Corte Suprema suma nuevos cargos a ministra Ángela Vivanco por irregularidades en 8 casos". CNN Chile (in Spanish). 2024-09-16. Retrieved 2024-09-19.
  21. ^ "Quién es Carlos Palma, el fiscal de Aysén investigado por el Caso Audios y sus chats". Ex-Ante (in Spanish). 2024-09-15. Retrieved 2024-09-19.

See also

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