News of chile

Argentina must move faster to realise potential, top miner says

Yesterdat 14:20 Canadian mining entrepreneur Rob McEwen urges Argentina to move forward with legislative changes that would increase the nation's attractiveness to investors.

Indigenous Rights

Chile military resumes patrols of restive Araucanía region

18-05-2022 17:06 Military patrols resume in Chile's southern Araucanía region as a response to mounting violence linked to territorial claims by the Mapuche Indigenous group.

Indigenous rights

Chile redeploys Army to southern region amid Mapuche tensions

17-05-2022 14:13 Chilean President Gabriel Boric's government decrees re-militarisation of troubled southern region of La Araucanía, in the face of mounting violence linked to territorial claims by Mapuche indigenous groups.

Francisca Sandoval

Chilean journalist dies after being shot during May Day protests

13-05-2022 13:47 A journalist who was shot near May Day protests in the Chilean capital Santiago died on Thursday, a hospital official said, as the country's president promised there would be no "impunity" in the case.

Lithium in Latin America

Mexico seeks lithium ‘partnership’ with Argentina, Bolivia and Chile

03-05-2022 14:32 Mexico seeking alliance with Argentina, Bolivia and Chile to share experiences regarding exploitation of lithium, President Andrés Manuel López Obrador said Tuesday.

LATIN AMERICA

Three shot in Chile May Day clashes

02-05-2022 10:53 Three people wounded by gunfire and two arrested in clashes during demonstrations in Chile.

Global pandemic

Chile reopens remaining land borders as Covid cases stabilise

01-05-2022 23:31 Chile reopens 22 land border crossings with Argentina, Bolivia and Peru. All had been closed since March 17, 2020, due to the arrival of Covid-19 in the country.

Indigenous rights

Mapuches seek agreements to solve 'historic debt' with Chile

22-04-2022 20:01 Representatives from Mapuche communities meet in the southern city of Temuco in search of agreements that allow them to settle, the "historical debt" that they consider that the Chilean State owes them.

Environment

Under shadow of drought, Santiago ditches exotic plants

20-04-2022 14:18 With drought casting a constant shadow over Santiago's 7.1 million residents, there has been a recent rush to replace thirsty, exotic plants with hardier, native ones in the hopes of staving off water rationing.

CORONAVIRUS PANDEMIC

Chile relaxes Covid-19 requirements, measures for entering country

13-04-2022 03:26 Chilean government announces relaxation of Covid-19 measures for citizens and tourist travelling to the country.

Bloomberg

Chile shifts to damage control with new pension proposal

12-04-2022 18:37 Finance Minister Mario Marcel says Chilean government will submit a bill that will allow a withdrawal from pension savings for specific purposes, such as paying utility bills, alimonies, past-due mortgages and for a first home.

Leftist leader

Chilean President Boric unveils economic recovery plan

08-04-2022 15:12 Chile's president Gabriel Boric announced an economic recovery plan worth US$3.7 billion that envisages the creation of half a million jobs.

UNREST IN CHILE

Chilean leader worried about drop in support for new constitution

07-04-2022 21:07 Chilean government confirms citizens will vote in a mandatory referendum on September 4 to approve or reject the new constitution.

HUMAN RIGHTS

Boric calls on Argentina not to forget the crimes of the dictatorships

06-04-2022 16:47 "Memory and unrestricted respect for human rights is fundamental," declares Chile's leftist leader after emotional visit to the former ESMA Navy Mechanics School concentration camp in Nuñez.

BLOOMBERG

Chile sours on Boric, constitution as poll finds economic alarm

05-04-2022 10:15 Chileans’ support for both their new president and the institution rewriting the constitution is fading fast, according to a new poll.

Bilateral relations

Boric calls for Latin American unity and 'deepening' of ties with Argentina

04-04-2022 17:43 Speaking during his visit to Buenos Aires, Chilean President Gabriel Boric calls for greater Latin American unity as he highlights the “deep brotherhood" that unites his country with Argentina.

Boric in Buenos Aires

Chile President Boric promises ‘dialogue’ to resolve Mapuche conflict

04-04-2022 17:08 Chilean leader vows to resolve ongoing conflict with indigenous Mapuche groups through "dialogue," denies any demands could call into question Argentina's territorial integrity.

Bilateral relations

Chile's Boric visits Argentina in first foreign trip as president

02-04-2022 22:13 Chile's President Gabriel Boric will travel to Argentina on Sunday in his first international official visit.

WORLD CUP QUALIFIERS

Argentina draw as Peru book World Cup play-off spot as Colombia, Chile miss out

30-03-2022 09:29 Argentina held 1-1 by Ecuador in South American qualifiers on a decisive night for the 2022 World Cup in Qatar.

Bilateral relations

New Chile president to visit Argentina in April on first foreign trip

18-03-2022 13:09 Chile’s new leader Gabriel Boric will travel to Argentina next month for a meeting with his President Alberto Fernández.

EDITORIAL

A changing world, near and far

11-03-2022 14:37 Gabriel Boric’s inauguration takes Chile into uncharted territory, but the world as a whole may well be taking an even greater leap into the dark.

NEW ERA IN CHILE

Chile's new president Gabriel Boric takes office with big plans for change

11-03-2022 09:48 Former student leader Gabriel Boric will be sworn in Friday as Chile's youngest-ever president, with plans to turn the country into a greener, more egalitarian "welfare state."

ENVIRONMENT

Gabriel Boric wants to lead a green revolution

11-03-2022 09:33 A new generation of leaders in commodity-rich Latin America sees climate change and its link to inequality as the new political fault line, including Chile's new president Gabriel Boric.

BORIC PREPARES TO TAKE OFFICE

Children of exile bring fresh vision to Chile cabinet

10-03-2022 20:59 Six of the 24 ministers who will form Gabriel Boric's Cabinet were born, raised or studied in exile, a legacy of the torture, imprisonment, repression and poverty that shook the country between 1973 and 1990.

RUSSIA-UKRAINE CONFLICT

Latin America divided on Russia-Ukraine conflict

25-02-2022 00:12 Region is divided on Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, with most condemning military action but a few asserting Moscow's "right to defend itself" against perceived NATO encroachment.

Climate change

Melting glaciers, fast-disappearing gauge of climate change

24-02-2022 22:36 A crack widens in the San Rafael glacier in Chile's extreme south, and a ten-story iceberg crashes into the lake by the same name – a dramatic reminder of the impacts of global warming.

'ABUELA CRISTINA'

Last native speaker of Chile's indigenous Yaghan language dies aged 93

16-02-2022 22:50 Cristina Calderón, the last native speaker of Chile's indigenous Yaghan language, has died at the age of 93, her family said Wednesday.

COURTS

Chile's top court overturns ruling freeing Mapuche leader Facundo Jones Huala

16-02-2022 10:57 Supreme Court in Chile overturns ruling granting parole to controversial indigenous leader, who has been behind bars since 2018.

Beijing 2022 Winter Olympics

Beijing 2022: Latin America’s sets modest objectives

04-02-2022 00:42 Any top 20 finish from the region’s 33 participants should be considered a success.

Border problem resolved

Chile, Argentina reach agreement to unblock truck queue at border crossing

31-01-2022 15:02 A long and lengthy queue of trucks at the border between Argentina and Chile was unblocked on Sunday, after both countries reached an agreement to relax Covid-19 health controls that had delayed some 3,000 vehicles for almost two weeks.

INTERNATIONAL FOOTBALL

Argentina’s Scaloneta marches on, even without its Lionels

28-01-2022 15:41 Thursday's victory over Chile was the 28th consecutive match the Albiceleste have negotiated without defeat; more than any other nation in the world right now.

by Dan Edwards

INFLATION ON RISE

Chile's Central Bank hikes rates again as inflation hits 14-year high

27-01-2022 08:06 Chile's Central Bank announces a third successive hike in its benchmark interest rate in a bid to contain inflation, which is at a 14-year high.

WORLD CUP QUALIFIERS

Scaloni says he won't travel to Chile due to Covid diagnosis

26-01-2022 18:21 National team coach Lionel Scaloni will not travel to Chile for Thursday's World Cup qualifier in Calama because he is suffering from Covid-19.

CRIME & THE COURTS

Mapuche leader Facundo Jones Huala freed by Chilean court

21-01-2022 23:49 A court in Chile on Friday freed Facundo Jones Huala, the leader of the Resistencia Ancestral Mapuche (RAM) indigenous Mapuche movement in Patagonia.

FOOTBALL

Argentina rest Lionel Messi for World Cup qualifiers

19-01-2022 16:56 With qualification assured, Paris Saint-Germain's Covid-free star Lionel Messi was on Wednesday left out of Argentina's squad for World Cup qualifiers against Chile and Colombia.

Handover in Chile

Chile's first lady elect to give role feminist makeover

19-01-2022 10:54 Irina Karamanos, the partner of Chile's president elect Gabriel Boric, announced on Tuesday she would take on the official role of first lady – but she also vowed to make it more feminist.

CORONAVIRUS PANDEMIC

Covid tests spark Argentine supply chain fears over border queues

18-01-2022 22:11 Up to 2,000 trucks are backed up at Argentina's main border crossing with Chile due to tougher Covid-19 testing requirements.

GUEST VOICE

Will 2022 be a year of consolidation for Latin America’s left?

14-01-2022 02:04 Three of the four Latin American presidential elections held last year were won by progressive candidates – and similar scenes could be repeated in Brazil and Colombia in the next 12 months.

by Clarisa Demattei*

Lithium in Latin America

Chile awards two multi-million dollar lithium contracts

12-01-2022 21:58 Chile shunned two of the world's biggest lithium producers when awarding extraction contracts worth a total of US$121 million to a local firm and a Chinese company, the country's minerals ministry said Wednesday.

LATIN AMERICA

Gabriel Boric has the chance to rewire Chile – and Latin America’s left

10-01-2022 10:24 Once the region’s no-frills, free-market poster child, Chile needs more government spending, not less, to sustain its growth trajectory.

Global pandemic

Chile to start administering fourth Covid vaccine dose next week

07-01-2022 12:11 Chile will start administering a fourth Covid vaccine dose to people with weakened immune systems from Monday, announces President Sebastián Piñera.

Price rises in Latin America

Chile inflation at a 14-year high

07-01-2022 11:55 Chile registered inflation of 7.2 percent in 2021, the highest level in 14 years, the INE statistics agency said on Friday.

ENVIRONMENT

Chilean scientists study climate change at 'end of the world'

05-01-2022 17:20 Chilean scientists studying organisms in one of the most remote places on Earth are urging regional leaders to step up efforts to tackle climate change.

Global pandemic

Chilean zoo jabs big cats, orangutan against Covid-19

04-01-2022 14:46 Bengal tiger Charly and Bornean orangutan Sandai, both members of endangered species, have received coronavirus vaccines at a Chilean zoo in a Latin American first.

2022: THE YEAR IN PREVIEW

World Cup to Rio carnival: Six key events to come in 2022

01-01-2022 00:01 From the World Cup in Qatar to the midterm elections in the United States, here are six events that are likely to mark the coming year.

MOUNTAIN RESCUE

Two lost French mountaineers rescued from volcano on Argentina-Chile border

29-12-2021 14:22 Two French mountaineers rescued after activating distress signal while climbing Ojos del Salado volcano in Fiambalá on the Argentina-Chile border.

FOREIGN POLICY

Boric: Chile will prioritise Pacific Alliance under my government

27-12-2021 22:53 Chile’s President-elect Gabriel Boric has said that his new government will focus its foreign policy on improving ties with members of the Pacific Alliance bloc.

ELECTIONS 2021: ANALYSIS

'Fed up' Latin American voters demand change

22-12-2021 11:01 When Latin American voters went to the polls in 2021, they had an unambiguous message for the ruling elite: we've had enough.

PROFILE: GABRIEL BORIC

New president at 35 thrusts Chile back into exceptionalism role

21-12-2021 15:44 While Gabriel Boric is sometimes described as part of a leftward shift in Latin America, he seems to be of a new, more globalist, breed.

CHILE RUN-OFF 2021

Economic, political troubles ahead for Chile's leftist president-elect

20-12-2021 12:44 Analysts say one of the first tasks for Boric will be to reassure financial markets of stability in one of Latin America's wealthiest countries.

News of chile

Argentina must move faster to realise potential, top miner says

Chile military resumes patrols of restive Araucanía region

Chile redeploys Army to southern region amid Mapuche tensions

Chilean journalist dies after being shot during May Day protests

Mexico seeks lithium ‘partnership’ with Argentina, Bolivia and Chile

Three shot in Chile May Day clashes

Chile reopens remaining land borders as Covid cases stabilise

Mapuches seek agreements to solve 'historic debt' with Chile

Under shadow of drought, Santiago ditches exotic plants

Chile relaxes Covid-19 requirements, measures for entering country

Chile shifts to damage control with new pension proposal

Chilean President Boric unveils economic recovery plan

Chilean leader worried about drop in support for new constitution

Boric calls on Argentina not to forget the crimes of the dictatorships

Chile sours on Boric, constitution as poll finds economic alarm

Boric calls for Latin American unity and 'deepening' of ties with Argentina

Chile President Boric promises ‘dialogue’ to resolve Mapuche conflict

Chile's Boric visits Argentina in first foreign trip as president

Argentina draw as Peru book World Cup play-off spot as Colombia, Chile miss out

New Chile president to visit Argentina in April on first foreign trip

A changing world, near and far

Chile's new president Gabriel Boric takes office with big plans for change

Gabriel Boric wants to lead a green revolution

Children of exile bring fresh vision to Chile cabinet

Latin America divided on Russia-Ukraine conflict

Melting glaciers, fast-disappearing gauge of climate change

Last native speaker of Chile's indigenous Yaghan language dies aged 93

Chile's top court overturns ruling freeing Mapuche leader Facundo Jones Huala

Beijing 2022: Latin America’s sets modest objectives

Chile, Argentina reach agreement to unblock truck queue at border crossing

Argentina’s Scaloneta marches on, even without its Lionels

Chile's Central Bank hikes rates again as inflation hits 14-year high

Scaloni says he won't travel to Chile due to Covid diagnosis

Mapuche leader Facundo Jones Huala freed by Chilean court

Argentina rest Lionel Messi for World Cup qualifiers

Chile's first lady elect to give role feminist makeover

Covid tests spark Argentine supply chain fears over border queues

Will 2022 be a year of consolidation for Latin America’s left?

Chile awards two multi-million dollar lithium contracts

Gabriel Boric has the chance to rewire Chile – and Latin America’s left

Chile to start administering fourth Covid vaccine dose next week

Chile inflation at a 14-year high

Chilean scientists study climate change at 'end of the world'

Chilean zoo jabs big cats, orangutan against Covid-19

World Cup to Rio carnival: Six key events to come in 2022

Two lost French mountaineers rescued from volcano on Argentina-Chile border

Boric: Chile will prioritise Pacific Alliance under my government

'Fed up' Latin American voters demand change

New president at 35 thrusts Chile back into exceptionalism role

Economic, political troubles ahead for Chile's leftist president-elect

Guzmán admits Argentina's March inflation figure will exceed 6%

Jaime Duran Barba: ‘It’s perfectly possible for Milei to reach the run-off next year’

Venezuela creeps out of hyperinflation, but no-one feels it

Argentine state bears 'responsibility' for 1924 indigenous massacre, rules court

Qatar World Cup marks last dance for Lionel Messi and Cristiano Ronaldo

"Esto no fue un accidente": un amigo de Melchor Rodrigo aseguró que Felipe Pettinato era violento con el médico

Pastor:"Era una especie de castigo hacernos ver el cuerpo de Yabrán"

Alberto Fernández pidió subir las retenciones: "Necesito que el Congreso entienda el problema"

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