Tag: Sebastián Piñera

• Monday, December 7th 2020 - 09:43 UTC

  The Pacific Alliance will hold its virtual presidential summit in Chile, next week

  

  The 15th Presidential Summit of the Pacific Alliance, a bloc made up of Chile, Colombia, Mexico and Peru, will be held on December 11th in Santiago de Chile, albeit via videoconference due to Covid-19.

• Friday, November 20th 2020 - 09:00 UTC

  Chile's top cop resigns following the shooting of two minors by security forces

  

  Chile's police chief resigned on Thursday after officers shot two minors in an incident that sparked outrage across a country already alarmed at heavy-handed security force tactics during months of social protests.

• Monday, November 9th 2020 - 09:05 UTC

  Chilean president pledges “sufficient and timely” access to Covid vaccines

  

  Chilean President Sebastian Piñera said the country’s health regulators had given the go-ahead to a clinical trial of the AstraZeneca PLC COVID-19 vaccine. Piñera said the AstraZeneca trial would follow one by America’s Johnson & Johnson that is already underway and another by China’s Sinovac, whose first vaccine doses arrived in Chile last week.

• Wednesday, November 4th 2020 - 09:32 UTC

  Piñera loses his third Interior minister, victim of the resurgent demonstrations

  

  A top aide of Chilean President Sebastian Piñera resigned after lawmakers censured him for allowing police abuses during social protests. Victor Perez quit on Tuesday shortly after the lower house voted 80 to 74 to temporarily suspend him from his duties, becoming Piñera's third Interior Minister to leave his post since 2018.

• Saturday, October 24th 2020 - 09:40 UTC

  A tale of two Chiles; referendum on constitutional reform

  

  By Jennifer M Piscopo and Peter Siavelis (*) – One year ago, Chileans took their anger over inequality and injustice to the streets, insisting that redressing the nation's deep structural problems would require more than reform. They said Chile would need a new constitution with more rights and better social protection.

• Friday, October 9th 2020 - 09:36 UTC

  Chile's foreign trade improving as September exports pick up

  

  Chile's overseas trade reached almost US$ 93,5 billion, between January and September this year, an 11% drop year on year, the president Sebastián Piñera government announced on Thursday.

• Friday, October 2nd 2020 - 09:49 UTC

  Chile in one year has lost 1,8 million jobs, and unemployment reached 12%

  

  The Chilean government has begun to gradually lift restrictions in the country in an attempt to reactivate the economy, given a drop in new cases with 1,556 (the lowest rate in three months), though areas with a high level of new cases remain under quarantine.

• Wednesday, September 30th 2020 - 09:44 UTC

  Chile drops out from regional agreement to deliver access of information in environmental matters

  

  Chile said last week it would not sign the Escazu Agreement -- a decision that generated surprise and disappointment among environmentalists because along with Costa Rica, Santiago has promoted it since 2012.

• Tuesday, September 29th 2020 - 09:26 UTC

  Chile announced US$ 2 billion package to help recover and create new jobs

  

  Chilean President Sebastian Piñera announced on Sunday the launch of US$ 2 billion in subsidies aimed at creating new jobs or recovering those lost during months of lockdown aimed at stemming the coronavirus pandemic in the globe’s top copper producer.

• Tuesday, August 25th 2020 - 09:00 UTC

  Chilean truck drivers threaten with a countrywide strike unless government stops attacks in Araucania

  

  Truck drivers in Chile late on Sunday called for a countrywide strike to begin Thursday if President Sebastian Piñera and Congress do not act immediately to stem a rising tide of attacks against their number in Chile´s Araucania region.