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Chile:
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Other pages in this profile of Chile:
Geography, People, Government, Economy, Communications & Transportation,
Geography, People, Government, Economy, Communications & Transportation,
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Military branches |
Army of the Nation, Chilean Navy (Armada de Chile, includes naval air, marine corps, and Maritime Territory and Merchant Marine Directorate (Directemar)), Chilean Air Force (Fuerza Aerea de Chile, FACh), Chilean Carabineros (National Police) (2007) |
Military service age and obligation |
18-45 years of age for voluntary military service; service obligation - 12 months for Army, 22 months for Navy and Air Force (2006) |
Manpower available for military service |
males age 18-49: 3,815,761 females age 18-49: 3,780,864 (2005 est.) |
Manpower fit for military service |
males age 18-49: 3,123,281 females age 18-49: 3,128,277 (2005 est.) |
Manpower reaching military age annually |
males age 18-49: 140,084 females age 18-49: 134,518 (2005 est.) |
Military expenditures - percent of GDP |
2.7% (2006) |
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Disputes - international |
Chile rebuffs Bolivia's reactivated claim to restore the Atacama corridor, ceded to Chile in 1884, offering instead unrestricted but not sovereign maritime access through Chile to Bolivian gas and other commodities; Chile rejects Peru's unilateral legislation to change its latitudinal maritime boundary with Chile to an equidistance line with a southwestern axis favoring Peru; territorial claim in Antarctica (Chilean Antarctic Territory) partially overlaps Argentine and British claims; the joint boundary commission, established by Chile and Argentina in 2001, has yet to map and demarcate the delimited boundary in the inhospitable Andean Southern Ice Field (Campo de Hielo Sur) |
Illicit drugs |
important transshipment country for cocaine destined for Europe; economic prosperity and increasing trade have made Chile more attractive to traffickers seeking to launder drug profits, especially through the Iquique Free Trade Zone, but a new anti-money-laundering law improves controls; imported precursors passed on to Bolivia; domestic cocaine consumption is rising; significant consumer of cocaine |
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