Events of 2020 in Chile.
Incumbents President: Sebastián Piñera (RN)
Events
January January 1 – Eye injury in the 2019–2020 Chilean protests: in two separate incidents two men were permanently blinded in one of their eyes as result of being hit by tear gas grenades shot by Chilean riot police.
March March 21 – Ministry of Health reports its country's first COVID-19 death in an 83-year woman from Renca Santiago. March 24 – Easter Island records its first case of COVID-19. Late March: first puma sightings of 2020 in Santiago April April 21 – Protests against the Chilean government in commemoration of the International Workers' Day are suppressed by the police, citing social distancing laws established due to the coronavirus pandemic. April 28 – Bolivia and Chile agree on a deal to return home hundreds of Bolivian migrants stranded at a makeshift camp in Santiago. The migrants were transported to Iquique where they spent 14 days in quarantine before finally returning to Bolivia. May May 18 – Protests against the government resume in Santiago due to food shortages in the poorest neighborhoods of the city created by the lockdown to control the COVID-19 pandemic. June June 13 More than 3,100 deaths are officially reported in the country. However, an investigation reported the Ministry of Health told the World Health Organization that the death toll reached 5,000 cases. Enrique Paris replaces Jaime Mañalich as Minister for Health.
October
October 26 – Chilean citizens voted in a referendum to rewrite its constitution, with 78% of the nearly 7.5 million citizens who participated voting in favor of creating a new constitution.
Deaths
January 3 – Mónica Echeverría, journalist, writer and actress (b. 1920) February 10 – Rubén Selman, football referee, heart attack (b. 1963)Falleció Rubén Selmán, el histórico árbitro del fútbol chileno February 15 – José Zalaquett, lawyer and human rights advocate (b. 1942) March 5 – Alejandro Sieveking, playwright and theatre director (b. 1934)Fallece a el dramaturgo chileno Alejandro Sieveking a los 85 años April 2 – Claudio Spies, composer (b.1925)Claudio Spies, composer, music theorist and 'great role model,' dies at 95 April 16 – Luis Sepúlveda, writer and journalist (b. 1949) May 6 – Antonio Piraíno, Olympic equestrian (1968) (b. 1928) June 21 – Bernardino Piñera, Roman Catholic bishop (d. 2020)Archbishop Manuel José Bernardino Piñera Carvallo † July 2 – Ángela Jeria, archaeologist and human rights activist (b.1926)A los 93 años fallece Ángela Jeria, madre de la expresidenta Michelle Bachelet August 12 – Sybil Brintrup, conceptual artist (b. 1954) September 6 – Marco Cariola, cattle farmer, lawyer and politician, senator (1998–2006) (b. 1932)Fallece exsenador y ganadero Marco Cariola October 23 – Gabriel Guarda, architect and historian (b.1928)A los 92 años murió el historiador y monje Gabriel Guarda, autor de la Capilla del Monasterio Benedictino
See also
2019 Chilean protests 2020 Chilean national plebiscite 2020 Summer Olympics 2020 Summer Paralympics
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