The Italian film Il Postino brings poetry into the life of a postman who delivers mail to the Chilean poet Pablo Neruda

Augusto Pinochet, visiting Britain from Chile for medical treatment, is arrested on an extradition request from a Spanish judge

The British Home Secretary, Jack Straw, judges Augusto Pinochet mentally incapable to stand trial and returns him to Chile

Former Peruvian president Alberto Fujimori, after sheltering since 2000 in Japan, arrives unexpectedly in Chile

The Chilean Supreme Court grants the Peruvian government's request for the extradition of Alberto Fujimori to Peru

Thirty-three miners are brought safely to the surface after being trapped deep underground for 69 days in the San José mine in Chile

In a take-over by Chilean students at the University del Mar an artist calling himself Papas Fritas frees students from allegedly $500 million of debt by burning the signed documents for their student loans

Chilean and French scientists discover caves on a remote island in Patagonia which could provide valuable evidence as to how continents were formed and subsequently moved apart