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JOINT VENTURE COLOMBIA-CHILE

INTERNATIONAL STRATEGICAL NEGOTIATION

PRESENTED BY: Ana Perez


PRESENTED TO: Jaime Leon Gonzalez Ortiz

VI SEMESTER

23 February 2010

INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS

UNIVERSIDAD DEL NORTE

GENERAL INFORMATION ABOUT CHILE

Government type: republic
Capital: Santiago
Geographic coordinates: 33 27S, 70 40 W
Time difference: UTC-4 (1 hour ahead of Washington, DC during Standard Time)
Daylight saving time: +1hr, begins second Sunday in October; ends second Sunday in March

Administrative divisions:
There are 15 regions (regions, singular - region); Aisen del General Carlos Ibanez del Campo, Antofagasta, Araucania, Arica y Parinacota, Atacama, Biobío, Coquimbo, Liberator GeneralBernardo O'Higgins, Los Lagos, Los Rios, Magallanes y de la Antartica Chilena, Maule, Region Metropolitana (Santiago), Tarapaca, Valparaiso

Independence:
It was 18 September, 1810 (from Spain)
Constitution: 11 September 1980, effective 11 March 1981; amended 1989, 1991, 1997, 1999, 2000, 2003, and 2005

Legal system:

Based on Code of 1857 derived from Spanish law and subsequent codesinfluenced by French and Austrian law; judicial review of legislative acts in the Supreme Court; has not accepted compulsory ICJ jurisdiction; note - in June 2005, Chile completed overhaul of its criminal justice system to a new, US-style adversarial system

Executive branch:
Chief of state: President Michelle BACHELET JERIA (since 11 March 2006); note - the president is both the chief ofstate and head of government. But on March 11 th Sebastian Piñera who won the runoff with about 51.6% of the vote, will succeed Michelle Bachelet.
Head of government: President Michelle BACHELET JERIA (since 11 March 2006)
Cabinet: Cabinet appointed by the president

Legislative branch:

Bicameral National Congress or Congreso Nacional consists of the Senate or Senado (38 seats; members electedby popular vote to serve eight-year terms; one-half elected every four years) and the Chamber of Deputies or Camara de Diputados (120 seats; members are elected by popular vote to serve four-year terms)

Judicial branch:

Supreme Court or Corte Supreme (judges are appointed by the president and ratified by the Senate from lists of candidates provided by the court itself; the president ofthe Supreme Court is elected every three years by the 20-member court); Constitutional Tribunal (eight-members - two each from the Senate, Chamber of Deputies, Supreme Court, and National Security Council - review the constitutionality of laws approved by Congress)

Political parties and leaders:

Alliance for Chile (Alianza) or APC (including National Renewal or RN [Carlos LARRAIN Pena] andIndependent Democratic Union or UDI [Juan Antonio COLOMA Correa]); Coalition of Parties for Democracy (Concertacion) or CPD (including Christian Democratic Party or PDC [Juan Carlos LATORRE Carmona], Socialist Party or PS [Camilo ESCALONA Medina], Party for Democracy or PPD [Pepe AUTH Stewart], and Radical Social Democratic Party or PRSD [Jose Antonio GOMEZ Urrutia]); Communist Party or PC[Guillermo TEILLIER del Valle]; Humanist Party [Marilen CABRERA Olmos]

Political pressure groups and leaders:

Roman Catholic Church, particularly conservative groups such as Opus Dei; United Labor Central or CUT includes trade unionists from the country's five largest labor confederations
other: revitalized university student federations at all major universities


International organizationparticipation: | |
APEC, BIS, CAN (associate), FAO, G-15, G-77, IADB, IAEA, IBRD, ICAO, ICC, ICCt, ICCt (signatory), ICRM, IDA, IFAD, IFC, IFRCS, IHO, ILO, IMF, IMO, IMSO, Interpol, IOC, IOM, IPU, ISO, ITSO, ITU, ITUC, LAES, LAIA, Mercosur (associate), MIGA, MINUSTAH, NAM, OAS, OECD (accession state), OPANAL, OPCW, PCA, RG, SICA (observer), UN, UNASUR, UNCTAD, UNESCO, UNHCR, UNIDO, Union...