2021 in Chile

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Events in the year 2021 in Chile.

See also: 2021 in South America

Incumbents

• President: Sebastián Piñera (RN)

Events

Ongoing — COVID-19 pandemic in Chile

January to March

• 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

• 10-11 April – Scheduled date for the 2021 Chilean Constitutional Convention election. President Piñera proposed holding the election in May to allow greater vaccination.^[9]
• 21 November – Scheduled date for the 2021 Chilean general election, to elect the President and National Congress. In the 2021 elections 27 members of the Senate (out of a total of maximum 50) will be elected, replacing 20 outgoing senators.^[10]

Deaths

Juan Guzmán Tapia

Patricio Manns

• 3 January – Manola Robles, journalist (b. 1948).^[11]
• 20 January - Mario Gutiérrez, musician, member of Los Ángeles Negros (b. 1949)^[12]
• 22 January - Juan Guzmán Tapia, judge (Augusto Pinochet's arrest and trial), (b. 1939).^[13]
• 27 January – Ignacio Tejeda, 17, tennis player; cancer.^[14]
• 31 January - Oliver Welden, award-winning poet (born 1946)^[15]
• 7 February – Mario Osbén, 69, footballer (Colo-Colo, Cobreloa, national team); heart attack.^[16]
• 10 March – Tomás Vidiella, 83, film director and actor; COVID-19.^[17]
• 13 March – Uruguay Graffigna, 73, Uruguayan-Chilean footballer (San Luis de Quillota, Los Angeles Aztecs, PEC Zwolle); complications from COVID-19 and Alzheimer's disease.^[18]
• 19 March – Cristián Cuturrufo, 48, jazz trumpeter; COVID-19.^[19]
• 27 March – Eugenio Mimica Barassi, 71, writer (born 1949).^[20]
• 8 April – Elsa Bolívar, 91, painter.^[21]
• 22 April – Armando Jofré, 44, artist and puppet maker (31 Minutos); COVID-19.^[22]
• 6 May – Humberto Maturana, 92, philosopher and biologist (born 1928).^[23]
• 25 July – Fernando Karadima, 90, catholic priest accused of sexual abuse (born 1930).^[24]
• 25 September – Patricio Manns, 84, singer (born 1973)^[25]
• 3 October – Jorge Medina, 94, cardinal (born 1926).^[26]
• 5 October – Reinaldo Solari, 96, businessman (born 1925).^[27]

See also

• Pacific Alliance
• COVID-19 in South America

References

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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.