(The unit of measure should not exceed one ten thousandth of the total military expenditures.

Chilean blogger Juan Guillermo Tejeda writes about some of the details of the meeting

September 11, 1973 U.S. stages 1973 Chilean coup d'état in Chile.

The Chilean air force hosted the joint exercise Salitre with other friendly nations.

Argentina did so in 2001, when it pesofied its dollar debts.

The Chilean doctor Carlos Van Buren, of U.S. descent, was involved in medical care of earthquake victims.

The 1997 Asian Financial Crisis affected the economy, resulting in a lingering decline of the value of the peso and falls in the stock market.

The Neruda film, starring Mexican actor Gael García Bernal, by Chilean director Pablo Larraín, opened tonight at the 14th annual Morelia International Film Festival.

The peso has barely budged since the election a clear indication that investors have not lost faith in the country.

Over the past five years, Chile s GDP has been expanding 5 annually, Argentina s by almost 9 , Venezuela s by more than 10 , and the Andean Community s by 6 .

Moreover, manipulation of official statistics highlights the problems of an economic model based on peso depreciation and the accumulation of reserves.

The biographical film Neruda about the political persecution faced by the Chilean poet, legislator, and diplomat Pablo Neruda was the first screened at the festival, as reported by the Proceso website

The result was the Mexican peso crisis of later that year (which I, as US Assistant Secretary of the Treasury, had to help contain).

Finally, after Mexico s 1994 95 peso crisis and the 1997 1998 Asian financial crisis, the US exported its new banking model to the emerging market economies.

When a government borrows a euro (or a dollar, pound, peso, or yuan), it commits itself to pay a euro in present value of future interest payments and eventual repayment of principal.

A huge influx of capital could lead to a significant appreciation of the peso s exchange rate, causing an increase in Mexico s currently very attractive labor costs.

Failure to address these important problems risks a continuing high rate of inflation, now running in excess of 20 per year one of the highest annual rates in the world, and well above the rate at which the Argentine peso is depreciating.

And, according to the BIS, while the renminbi has finally broken into the top ten currencies in foreign exchange markets, it still accounts for only 2.2 of all transactions, just behind the Mexican peso s 2.5 share.

Finally, on 18 February 2009, Van der Sar further extended the record to 1,302 minutes, and in doing so, he broke José María Buljubasich's single season world record of 1,289 minutes, set in the Chilean Clausura in 2005.

Its overvaluation began with the Mexican peso crisis of 1994, and was officially enshrined by the strong dollar policy adopted after the East Asian financial crisis of 1997.

In the last 18 months, the peso has appreciated 6 more than the renminbi, eroding Mexico s ability to compete with Chinese exports to the US, by far Mexico s largest export market.

Thirty six years after the left took power for the first time with Salvador Allende s peaceful revolution one supported by votes rather than armed struggle Chileans have opted again for real change by i naugurating a socialist and a woman as their president.

Thus, the general who yearned to see his picture in Chilean history books next to that of our liberator, Bernardo O Higgins, must now resign himself to dying abandoned even by those who, until only two years ago, revered and honored him.