Citizens of Australia, Egypt, Haiti, India, Korea, Lebanon, New Zealand, Russia, Saudi Arabia, Thailand, the Czech Republic, the People's Republic of China and the Philippines require a visa. Citizens of Argentina, Brazil, Uruguay and Paraguay only require their ID card. Politics Chile is a democratic republic. The president and the bicameral parliament are elected by secret universal ballot.
Judicial power is independent.
For the past ten years, Chile has maintained a steady growth rate and a liberal economic policy, open to the rest of the world, with a marked increase in foreign investment and commercial agreements with different countries. History Until the arrival of the Spanish conquerors, the northern half of the territory was part of the Inca Empire. The southern zone was dominated by the Mapuche, or Aruacano Indians, warrior tribes that were pacified only in 1881 and who today live on small reservations. The extreme south of the country was inhabited by nomadic Indians who were also fishermen. Chile was a Spanish colony from the conquest until its independence.