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TARAPACA - LoveToKnow Article on TARAPACA (197 words) |
 | It is part of the rainless desert region of the Pacific coast of South America, and is absolutely without water except at the base of the Andes where streams flow down into the sands and are lost. |
| The wealth of Tarapaca is in its immense deposits of nitrate of soda (found on the Pampa de Tamarugal, a broad desert plateau between the coast range and the Andes, which has an elevation of about 3000 ft.). |
| Tarapaca was ceded to Chile by Peru after the war of 1879-1883, and was organized as a province in 1884. |
| Center for Latin American Studies, UC Berkeley (954 words) |
| Despite Chile’s reputation as the “Tiger economy” of South America, the country is actually in no position to be internationally competitive, according to Senator Fernando Flores Labra, who represents Chile’s Tarapacá regions and is a member of the governing coalition’s Socialist Party. |
| The main reason for Chile’s lack of competitiveness, he said, is its lack of business and economic development strategy, especially if compared to countries as diverse as Singapore, New Zealand or Finland, where the state has fostered investment in specific sectors, allowing the countries to grow successfully despite primary resource-based economies. |
| In response to a question about the impact of the recent commemorations in Chile of the 30th anniversary of the coup against President Allende’s democratically-elected government, the senator said that the people for whom Sept 11th was an important date are now in the minority, as most Chileans were born after the coup. |
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