Chile

• Monday, September 22nd 2014 - 06:00 UTC

  Chile will host next year the Adventure Travel World summit

  

  Chile has won the bid to host the Adventure Travel World Summit (ATWS) in 2015. The adventure tourism industry’s foremost annual gathering will take place from October 5th to the 8th in the town of Puerto Varas, in the Lake Region of Chile.

• Tuesday, September 16th 2014 - 07:41 UTC

  Norwegian company buys Acuinova Chile with 40.000 tons production capacity

  

  Norwegian giant salmon-faming company Marine Harvest has announced an agreement to purchase assets of the former Chilean farming company Acuinova Chile SA, currently in bankruptcy, for 120 million dollars.

• Saturday, September 13th 2014 - 07:02 UTC

  Bachelet government seek to repeal dictator Pinochet's Amnesty Law

  

  As Chileans commemorated the 41 st anniversary of the 1973 military coup, Justice Minister José Antonio Gomez announced that the government of Michelle Bachelet will seek to repeal the Amnesty Law, a legacy of the dictatorship of General Augusto Pinochet.

• Friday, September 12th 2014 - 06:40 UTC

  Chile's military coup anniversary exposes a divided country

  

  “In Chile there's no room, and there can be no room, for violence or fear,” President Michelle Bachelet said Thursday at a ceremony commemorating the 41st anniversary of the 1973 military coup and several days after a bomb blast injured 14 people in this capital. The 17-year military dictatorship remains controversial and a rift in Chilean society.

• Friday, September 12th 2014 - 06:19 UTC

  OAS recalls tragic events of 09/11 in Chile and United States

  

  The Secretary General of the Organization of American States (OAS), José Miguel Insulza recalled on Thursday the tragic events that occurred on September 11, in Chile and the United States, in 1973 and 2001, and called on the international community “to observe tolerance and to respect diversity at a time when the world is shaken once more by violence.”

• Friday, September 12th 2014 - 06:16 UTC

  Chilean lawmaker arrested for alleged involvement in killing of activists in 1981

  

  Forty-one years to the day after General Augusto Pinochet seized power in a military coup in Chile, a right-wing legislator was arrested for alleged involvement in the killing of three activists during the 17-year Pinochet dictatorship.

• Tuesday, September 9th 2014 - 03:14 UTC

  Chile will apply antiterrorism law to Monday's bombing of metro station

  

  Monday's bombing at a Santiago metro station that left at least ten people wounded was a terrorist attack, the Chilean government said. This is the last and most serious of a string of bombs that have been found across Santiago most planted at night.

• Thursday, September 4th 2014 - 05:42 UTC

  Magallanes received 630.000 tourists in 2013, expects a 5% increase this year

  

  Magallanes Region economy (in the extreme south of Chile) received an injection of 220 million dollars from the 630.000 tourists that arrived by air, sea or land to the area during 2013, according to the latest release form the regional Tourism Office (Sernatur).

• Tuesday, September 2nd 2014 - 08:40 UTC

  Bachelet announces stimuli program for the foundering Chilean economy

  

  President Michelle Bachelet presented on Monday a 500 million dollars emergency plan to try and rejuvenate Chile's slowing economy via investment promotion. She added that half of the anticipated funding will come from adjustments to the budget while the rest will come from greater structural income from a tax reform that Congress is expected to approve soon

• Saturday, August 30th 2014 - 07:54 UTC

  Chile's oil corporation plans to pad drill 55 wells for gas in Tierra del Fuego

  

  Chile's petroleum corporation, ENAP, is planning to drill 55 non conventional new wells in Tierra del Fuego beginning September until the end of 2015, with the purpose of increasing the current production from 450.000 cubic meters per day to a million cubic meters of 'tight' gas.