News of chile

Flying Argentina’s flag on the international stage

13-06-2025 18:09 Back-to-back tests against Chile and Colombia give reigning world champions perfect chance to blood a few new faces; Boca and River head to the US to fly the national flag at the Club World Cup.

by Dan Edwards

SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY

Chile, Google sign deal for first-ever South America-Asia fibre optic cable

05-06-2025 10:03 Dubbed the "Humboldt Project," the 14,800-kilometere cable will run from Valparaíso on Chile's Pacific coast to Sydney, Australia, via French Polynesia. According to Google, this will be the first such cable to directly connect South America and the Asia-Pacific.

MINING & INDUSTRY

Rio Tinto invests in major Chilean lithium project

19-05-2025 20:56 Chile's state-owned copper giant Codelco announced a partnership on Monday with British-Australian miner Rio Tinto to extract lithium from the Maricunga salt flat.

HUMAN RIGHTS IN CHILE

The battle by Chile torture site dwellers to remain

19-05-2025 13:51 Villa Baviera, a German-themed settlement of 122 souls in southern Chile, looks like the perfect holiday getaway. But Colonia Dignidad, as it was previously known, is a byword for horror during the dictatorship of Augusto Pinochet.

MINING & INDUSTRY

Lundin Mining reveals largest copper find in 30 years in Argentina

05-05-2025 17:27 BHP Group’s joint-venture partner Lundin Mining Corp declares companies’ Filo del Sol project in South America to be the largest discovery of copper in three decades.

Supply lines

Latin America is master of its markets, not Trump, Bradesco says

23-04-2025 22:34 Outlook for Latin American shares depends more on local elections and fiscal and monetary policy than it does Donald Trump’s tariff war.

INFRASTRUCTURE

Chile unveils ‘bioceanic road corridor’ plan to fanfare

15-04-2025 13:18 President Gabriel Boric presents massive infrastructure project – the cost of which was not revealed – that would link the north of Chile with Brazil, Argentina and Paraguay to form a new trade route between the Atlantic and the Asia-Pacific.

FUTURE OF UNITED NATIONS

Four Latin Americans who could become the UN’s next leader

10-04-2025 15:57 Latin American and Caribbean nations will seek to unite behind a single candidate in the contest to lead the United Nations, a move that see the first-ever female secretary-general.

BUSINESS & INVESTMENT

Mercado Libre to invest US$2.6 billion in Argentina this year

09-04-2025 17:31 US$2.6-billion investment marks a 53% increase on last year’s figure and forms part of a wider regional expansion drive.

TRADE WARS

Trump attempting to be an ‘emperor,’ says Chile's Boric

02-04-2025 15:19 Chilean President says that at Trump’s inauguration, billionaires and tech gurus were “paying homage to someone who seems to pretend to be a new emperor.”

ENVIRONMENT & WILDLIFE

Fifteen wild rheas transferred to Chile in bid to restore species

25-03-2025 10:20 Argentina and Chile achieve a conservation milestone with the first binational translocation of wild birds; Conservation effort is part of a push to boost population.

POLITICS IN CHILE

Chile presidential candidate Evelyn Matthei lauds Argentina budget cuts

22-03-2025 09:13 “In Argentina, they’ve cut spending with a speed and determination that’s incredible,” says Chile presidential candidate Evelyn Matthei.

ECONOMY

Surge in Argentine tourists fuels Chile retail earnings

11-03-2025 16:06 Argentina's strong peso encouraged 2 million people to travel to Chile last year, boosting earnings for retailers and airlines on the other side of the border.

CHILE ELECTIONS

Chile interior minister quits to run for president

05-03-2025 11:06 Chile's centre-left interior minister Carolina Tohá announces her bid for presidency, with opposition still dominating early polls.

Antarctica

Chilean president makes historic visit to South Pole

04-01-2025 09:03 Chile President Boric becomes the first Latin American leader to reach the Earth's southernmost point, according to his office.

BILATERAL SPAT

Chile sends note of protest to Argentina after Caputo's criticism of Boric

19-12-2024 09:25 Chile has sent a note of protest to Argentina’s government after its economy minister Luis Caputo branded President Gabriel Boric a "communist" who will "sink" the nation.

EDITORIAL

Home away from Rome

30-11-2024 05:06 Returning Argentina to the world is not a straight or single line like any flight abroad – nor for that matter like domestic economic policy.

CHILEAN LEADER

Chile President Gabriel Boric denies sexual harassment complaint

26-11-2024 09:20 Through his lawyer, Chilean President Gabriel Boric "categorically" denies allegations foiled in a criminal complaint claiming he sexually harassed a woman over a decade ago.

FOREIGN POLICY & DIPLOMACY

Pope hails four decades of peace between Argentina, Chile

25-11-2024 16:25 Pope Francis hosts a Vatican meeting to celebrate the 40th anniversary of the Peace and Friendship Treaty between Argentina and Chile, signed on November 29, 1984, ending the Beagle Channel conflict.

FRENCH LEADER IN LATIN AMERICA

Macron praises EU-Chile trade agreement on Latin America tour

20-11-2024 20:53 French President Emmanuel Macron visits Chilean counterpart Gabriel Boric in Santiago on the last leg of a Latin America tour.

WORLD CUP QUALIFERS

Argentina beat Peru in Buenos Aires as Uruguay hold Brazil

20-11-2024 10:40 Argentina secured a 1-0 win over Peru with a stunning Lautaro Martínez volley to remain top of the CONMEBOL World Cup qualifying standings going into the New Year.

HEALTH & SOCIETY

Chile's 'transplant' footballers champion organ donation

13-11-2024 10:46 Twenty transplant recipients, most of them kidney organ recipients, make up an amateur football team known as the "Chilean Transplant Team."

POLLS & SURVEYS

Chile overwhelmingly scorns immigration, poll shows

31-10-2024 10:43 Chileans are demanding stricter immigration controls much more than neighbours in other Latin American nations, according to a new poll, as an influx of newcomers upends politics in one of the region’s richest economies.

Latin America

Killings and prison torture raise alarms over gang crime in Chile

30-10-2024 13:45 Murders, violent crime and drug seizures have increased; Chile more than tripled spending since 2022 to meet threat.

BLOOMBERG - ANALYSIS

Leftist leaders are failing their promises across Latin America

21-10-2024 14:20 The changing political landscape in Latin America, highlights the decline of leftist governments due to economic challenges, crime, and social reform failures, and the rise of more business-friendly, right-leaning administrations.

CHILEAN SOCIETY

Chile's birth rate plummets as more women say no to motherhood

18-09-2024 11:32 In the past decade, births have fallen by 29% in Chile, which now makes it the country with the lowest birth rate in the Americas.

WORLD CUP QUALIFERS

Argentina cruise past Chile in World Cup qualifiers after homage to Di María

06-09-2024 11:44 Alexis Mac Allister, Julián Álvarez and Paulo Dybala were on target as Argentina banked a 3-0 win over Chile on Thursday.

Foreign relations & diplomacy

Argentina joins 10 other nations in rejecting Maduro vote certification

23-08-2024 12:58 Argentina, along with the United States and nine Latin American countries, issues statement rejecting the Venezuela Supreme Court's certification of President Nicolás Maduro's July 28 re-election.

FOREIGN POLICY & DIPLOMACY

Milei praises Chile’s economic policy during ‘unofficial’ visit to Santiago

09-08-2024 16:10 President Javier Milei praises Chile’s longstanding economic policies and avoids criticising Gabriel Boric during brief visit to Argentina's neighbour.

GAS & ENERGY

Milei in Neuquén to tour Vaca Muerta, meet businessmen

08-08-2024 19:09 President Javier Milei visits Neuquén, heart of energy production, and crosses over to Chile for the first time as head of state – but without holding a bilateral meeting with Gabriel Boric.

POLITICS

President Milei faces new round of plagarism claims related to latest book

25-07-2024 16:26 Journalist Alejandro Alfie alleges President Javier Milei copied fragments from his latest book 'Capitalismo, socialismo y la trampa neoclásica (Capitalism, socialism and the neoclassic trap)' verbatim from two Chilean writers. He also resumed the investigation by NOTICIAS, denouncing plagiarism in “Pandenomics”.

PRESIDENT IN BRAZIL

Milei backs Bolsonaro without attacking Lula in Brazil visit

08-07-2024 11:17 Javier Milei headlines conservative rally in southern Brazil alongside right-wing former president Jair Bolsonaro, the biggest gamble yet on his unorthodox foreign policy approach.

Copa América 2024

Argentina into Copa América quarters after 1-0 win over Chile

26-06-2024 00:04 Lautaro Martínez gets a late winner for Argentina as the Albiceleste avenge famous Copa América final defeat to Chile and qualify for the quarter-finals.

Copa América 2024

Birthday boy Messi returns to scene of Copa América torment

24-06-2024 20:28 Lionel Messi will return to the scene of one of the most disappointing moments in his stellar career when Argentina face Chile at MetLife Stadium on Tuesday.

Football: Copa América

Messi, Di María ready for Copa clashes with Canada, Chile, Peru

18-06-2024 13:06 Canada, Chile and Peru – the challengers facing Argentina in Group A of the first stage of the Copa América.

BORDER ROW

Argentina starts removing solar panels from Chilean border

18-06-2024 10:43 Chilean President Gabriel Boric pushes Argentina to act and remove solar panels at a southern military base that were erroneously installed on Chile’s side of border.

DIPLOMATIC ROW

Boric demands action from Argentina in row over military base border

17-06-2024 14:53 Chilean leader pushes Argentina to act and remove solar panels at a southern military base that were erroneously installed on Chile’s side of border.

WEATHER

State of 'catastrophe' as cold front and downpours hit Chile

13-06-2024 17:40 Thousands affected as Chile issues first top level weather warning in two decades. Cold front moves towards Argentina.

Lithium in Latin America

Giant lithium partnership created in Chile with Codelo-SQM deal

31-05-2024 18:37 Chile's state-owned copper giant Codelco signed a deal Friday with SQM to nearly double the private mining firm’s current extraction of lithium.

MINING & INDUSTRY

Copper frenzy draws mining giants to Argentina after Milei’s reforms

23-05-2024 00:01 Milei government tries to lure global mining heavyweights; President must convince companies that their projects are safe and lay down rules for doing business.

DIPLOMACY

Bullrich sparks row with Bolivia, Chile with Hezbollah claims

17-04-2024 16:36 Bullrich alleges the presence of Iranian-linked forces in Bolivia and Chile, along with Triple Frontier; Arce’s administration calls for “end of provocation,” while Boric demands respect.

ECONOMY & INDUSTRY

Cheap Chinese steel threatens jobs in Latin America

16-04-2024 09:45 Metal-workers in Latin America are clamouring for higher import tariffs as an avalanche of cheap Chinese steel floods the region.

Bloomberg

Inflation near 300% wipes out tourists’ deep discounts

13-04-2024 17:13 Surging inflation threatens to crimp a key source of tourism revenue as foreigners opt for other destinations.

AGRICULTURE & ECONOMY

World’s top fertiliser maker plans exit from Argentina, Chile

13-04-2024 16:59 Nutrien, the world’s largest maker of fertilisers, says it is looking to sell its retail operations in Argentina, Chile and Uruguay.

Lithium in Latin America

Chile unveils lithium salt flats it plans to lease to private companies

27-03-2024 14:36 Chile unveiled salt flats that will be opened up to lithium mining as part of a plan to double production of the battery metal over the next decade under a new public-private model.

Bloomberg

US Treasury Secretary Yellen praises Chile’s policies in visit to lithium-rich ally

01-03-2024 16:42 US Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen on Friday lavished praise on Chile during a visit focused on critical minerals.

Death of Pablo Neruda

Chile to reopen probe into mystery death of poet Pablo Neruda

20-02-2024 15:32 An appeals court in Santiago ordered the reopening of the investigation into the death of Neruda, who many believe was poisoned by the dictatorship of Augusto Pinochet.

Environment

Polluted paradise: Chile town waits for clean-up as coal shuts off

12-02-2024 13:28 Coal-fired plants and factories bellow noxious fumes into the air in a small town, but Chile has embarked on a whirlwind energy transition

INFLATION WOES

Latin America’s inflation progress tempered by soaring food price pressures

08-02-2024 14:28 Consumer price readings underscore challenges facing Latin American policymakers as they calibrate future interest rate cuts. Most of the region’s major inflation-targeting central banks have already begun reducing borrowing costs

OBITUARY

Piñera: the ‘locomotora’ that return the right to power in Chile

08-02-2024 01:02 Former president and businessman, who led Chile for two terms (2010-2014, 2018-2022), was nation’s first right-wing leader of post-Pinochet democratic era.

News of chile

Flying Argentina’s flag on the international stage

Chile, Google sign deal for first-ever South America-Asia fibre optic cable

Rio Tinto invests in major Chilean lithium project

The battle by Chile torture site dwellers to remain

Lundin Mining reveals largest copper find in 30 years in Argentina

Latin America is master of its markets, not Trump, Bradesco says

Chile unveils ‘bioceanic road corridor’ plan to fanfare

Four Latin Americans who could become the UN’s next leader

Mercado Libre to invest US$2.6 billion in Argentina this year

Trump attempting to be an ‘emperor,’ says Chile's Boric

Fifteen wild rheas transferred to Chile in bid to restore species

Chile presidential candidate Evelyn Matthei lauds Argentina budget cuts

Surge in Argentine tourists fuels Chile retail earnings

Chile interior minister quits to run for president

Chilean president makes historic visit to South Pole

Chile sends note of protest to Argentina after Caputo's criticism of Boric

Home away from Rome

Chile President Gabriel Boric denies sexual harassment complaint

Pope hails four decades of peace between Argentina, Chile

Macron praises EU-Chile trade agreement on Latin America tour

Argentina beat Peru in Buenos Aires as Uruguay hold Brazil

Chile's 'transplant' footballers champion organ donation

Chile overwhelmingly scorns immigration, poll shows

Killings and prison torture raise alarms over gang crime in Chile

Leftist leaders are failing their promises across Latin America

Chile's birth rate plummets as more women say no to motherhood

Argentina cruise past Chile in World Cup qualifiers after homage to Di María

Argentina joins 10 other nations in rejecting Maduro vote certification

Milei praises Chile’s economic policy during ‘unofficial’ visit to Santiago

Milei in Neuquén to tour Vaca Muerta, meet businessmen

President Milei faces new round of plagarism claims related to latest book

Milei backs Bolsonaro without attacking Lula in Brazil visit

Argentina into Copa América quarters after 1-0 win over Chile

Birthday boy Messi returns to scene of Copa América torment

Messi, Di María ready for Copa clashes with Canada, Chile, Peru

Argentina starts removing solar panels from Chilean border

Boric demands action from Argentina in row over military base border

State of 'catastrophe' as cold front and downpours hit Chile

Giant lithium partnership created in Chile with Codelo-SQM deal

Copper frenzy draws mining giants to Argentina after Milei’s reforms

Bullrich sparks row with Bolivia, Chile with Hezbollah claims

Cheap Chinese steel threatens jobs in Latin America

Inflation near 300% wipes out tourists’ deep discounts

World’s top fertiliser maker plans exit from Argentina, Chile

Chile unveils lithium salt flats it plans to lease to private companies

US Treasury Secretary Yellen praises Chile’s policies in visit to lithium-rich ally

Chile to reopen probe into mystery death of poet Pablo Neruda

Polluted paradise: Chile town waits for clean-up as coal shuts off

Latin America’s inflation progress tempered by soaring food price pressures

Piñera: the ‘locomotora’ that return the right to power in Chile

Chronicle of a guilty sentence foretold

The lady vanishes

Tougher times for politicians on the take

CFK's supporters keep vigil over threat of prison

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