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Chile

  • Tuesday, December 26th 2023 - 06:56 UTC

    Chilean navy adds submarine to keep track of foreign fishing fleets

    A Scorpene-class attack submarine was deployed on a fisheries-enforcement patrol in the Juan Fernandez Archipelago and further south. (Pic Chilean Navy)

    The Chilean Navy has bolstered patrol operations against illegal fishing in the South Pacific region and keeping track of fishing vessels crossing into the South Atlantic. Normally operations are the task of naval surface vessels and air surveillance, but last week it took the unusual step of deploying a Scorpene-class attack submarine on a fisheries-enforcement patrol in the Juan Fernandez Archipelago and further south.

  • Monday, December 18th 2023 - 10:59 UTC

    New attempt to reform Chile's Constitution fails

    Sunday's process “strengthens our democracy,” Boric argued

    Chile voted 55.45 % against the new Constitution and thus the one passed in the early 1980s under former dictator Augusto Pinochet Ugarte will remain in force, it was reported Sunday in Santiago.

  • Friday, December 15th 2023 - 10:11 UTC

    Chile: Presidential pardonee arrested for kidnapping

    Boric had promised to assume the pardons responsibly

    A rioter who had been convicted for his involvement in the 2019 uprisings and later pardoned by Chilean President Gabriel Boric Font was arrested Thursday by Carabineros in Copiapó on kidnapping charges.

  • Tuesday, December 12th 2023 - 10:44 UTC

    UK and Chile signed a five year Antarctica Cooperation Agreement

    The Letter of Intent ensures closer co-operation

    Foreign Office minister for the Americas, the Caribbean, and British Overseas Territories, David Rutley, has been quite busy in his areas of influence. At the end of October, he visited Peru to commemorate two hundred years of close relations between Britain and the Andean country. Rutley later travelled to Santiago, where he also had a busy agenda given UK's and the Royal Navy strong alliance with Chile.

  • Saturday, December 2nd 2023 - 10:43 UTC

    UAE, Argentina, Brazil, Chile, and Paraguay agree to promote bioceanic corridor

    The road drafted to be some 2,200 kilometers long would be completed by 2025

    Argentina, Brazil, Chile, the United Arab Emirates (UAE), and Paraguay Friday agreed in Dubai on the sidelines of the United Nations Climate Summit (COP28) to “seek opportunities” for the highway due to link the port of Santos, in Brazil, with the Chilean ports of Arica and Iquique. Former Paraguayan President Mario Abdo Benítez has dubbed the initiative “the small Panama Canal.”

  • Thursday, November 23rd 2023 - 10:11 UTC

    Legal action sought against Roger Waters in Chile

    Waters has faced multiple hindrances on his South American tour

    Chile's Jewish Community Wednesday filed a request for judiciary protection against British pop singer Roger Waters of Pink Floyd fame, it was reported in Santiago.

  • Thursday, November 23rd 2023 - 09:12 UTC

    Chile's new ambassador to Buenos Aires chosen

    Chile and Magallanes are the gateway to the world to Antarctica, Boric also said Wednesday

    Chilean President Gabriel Boric Font Wednesday chose José Antonio Viera-Gallo to fill the vacancy as Ambassador to Argentina, which would mean the appointee's return to a position he held between 2015 and 2018, Undersecretary of the Interior Manuel Monsalve announced.

  • Wednesday, November 22nd 2023 - 08:59 UTC

    Boric: Chile and Argentina are brotherly peoples

    “These political differences cannot cloud the fact that our integration between both countries is absolutely necessary,” said Boric

    Chile's President Gabriel Boric Font insisted that his country and Argentina were brotherly peoples and that despite his ideological differences with Javier Milei, his duty was to “continue promoting integration at the highest level.”

  • Saturday, November 18th 2023 - 09:42 UTC

    Sentenced Mapuche leaders cry 'neo-fascist counter-offensive'

    Ernesto Llaitul was arrested in September 2022, a week after his father

    Four Mapuche rebels from the Arauco Malleco Coordinating Committee (CAM) rebel group in southern Chile said Friday that the prison sentences handed down to them earlier this week were a sign of the neo-fascist counter-offensive against the autonomist movement seeking to regain political-territorial rights.

  • Friday, November 17th 2023 - 10:04 UTC

    Chilean president separates from his romantic partner

    “I will continue to be 100% dedicated to the task of governing this beautiful country,” Boric said

    Chile's Gabriel Boric Font announced Thursday that he was ending his romantic partnership with former first lady Irina Karamanos, who kept her campaign promise to dissolve such a post.