Possible Clues:

• Either cold or hot stuff, we hear, in this country
• Sounds cold, sounds hot, is place
• Pablo Neruda's land
• Country's putsch I led on the inside
• Where the Atacama Desert is unlike the Sahara, say?
• Its flag is red, white and blue
• Rescue site of 2010
• Argentina's neighbor
• S American country
• Pablo Neruda's homeland