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Happy Times in Chile

11:30 AM, Jul 11, 2008 • By JAIME SNEIDER
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A Chilean entertainer is determined to see her country climb the ranks of world's happiest place to be:

Police in Chile have arrested a stripper who was attempting to remove her clothes outside the presidential palace in the capital, Santiago. Her arrest comes three days after she performed a series of striptease dances on the Santiago underground, the metro.

Monserrat Morilles told reporters that her performances were aimed at challenging the prudishness of Chilean society and that they would continue.

Ms Morilles, 26, called her performances "happy minutes". A professional pole dancer, she boarded the train at one station, and stripped down to skimpy underwear in time to exit at the next station.

Chile currently ranks above China, Greece, and Japan, but below the United States and many western European countries on the all-important satisfaction with life scale. If the United States would like to curtail the staggering loss in monetary terms of the average human life, perhaps it could grant Morilles asylum.

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