2021 in Chile

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See also:	Other events of 2021; Timeline of Chilean history;

Events in the year 2021 in Chile.

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

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]

References

^ "Caso Catrillanca: Ex sargento Carlos Alarcón es declarado culpable de homicidio simple". cnn chile (in European Spanish). 7 January 2021. Retrieved 1 February 2021.
^ "Carlos Alarcón es condenado a 16 años de cárcel por caso Catrillanca". cnn chile (in European Spanish). 28 January 2021. Retrieved 1 February 2021.
^ "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.
^ "Protests erupt in Chile after police fatally shoot street juggler". aljazeera.com. Al Jazeera English. 6 February 2021. Retrieved 6 February 2021.
^ 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.
^ 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.
^ "Coronavirus (COVID-19)". Google News. Retrieved 16 February 2021.
^ "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.
^ "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.
^ "Chile: Senado (Senate): Electoral system". ipu.org. Retrieved 3 January 2021.
^ "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.
^ "Amor, adiós: muere Mario Gutiérrez, histórico líder y fundador de Los Ángeles Negros". La Tercera. 21 January 2021. Retrieved 6 August 2023.
^ "Fallece Juan Guzmán Tapia, el juez que procesó a Augusto Pinochet". www.24horas.cl. Retrieved 6 August 2023.
^ "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.
^ "Oliver Welden (1946-2021) - Memoria Chilena, Biblioteca Nacional de Chile". www.memoriachilena.gob.cl. Retrieved 6 August 2023.
^ Poblete, Álvaro (7 February 2021). "Fallece el Gato Osbén, icónico arquero del fútbol chileno". La Tercera. Retrieved 6 August 2023.
^ Morales, Natalia (10 March 2021). "Muere Tomás Vidiella, el reconocido actor que cubrió teatro, TV y café concert". La Tercera. Retrieved 6 August 2023.
^ A los 73 años falleció Uruguay Graffigna, ídolo de San Luis de Quillota Archived 2021-03-14 at the Wayback Machine (in Spanish)
^ 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.
^ "A los 71 años muere el escritor magallánico Eugenio Mimica Barassi". laprensaaustral.cl (in Spanish). 27 March 2021. Retrieved 30 March 2021.
^ "MAC lamenta el fallecimiento de artista Elsa Bolivar". Archived from the original on 9 April 2021.
^ "Falleció creador de los títeres de 31 Minutos a causa del COVID-19". 22 April 2021.
^ "A los 92 años falleció Humberto Maturana". El Periodista. 6 May 2021.
^ "Former Chilean priest at center of abuse scandal dies at 90". Reuters. 26 July 2021. Retrieved 27 July 2021.
^ "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.
^ "Falleció el Cardenal Jorge Medina Estévez". www.iglesia.cl. Retrieved 6 August 2023.
^ "A los 96 años fallece Reinaldo Solari uno de los fundadores de Falabella". 5 October 2021.

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[1] "Caso Catrillanca: Ex sargento Carlos Alarcón es declarado culpable de homicidio simple". cnn chile (in European Spanish). 7 January 2021. Retrieved 1 February 2021.

[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.

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