Chile

• Wednesday, February 26th 2025 - 09:21 UTC

  Nationwide curfew decreed in Chile amid mass blackout

  

  About 98% of Chile's population was left Tuesday without electricity, prompting President Gabriel Boric Font to decree a curfew between 10 pm to 6 am Wednesday with 3,000 troops deployed nationwide. The outage began at 3.16 pm after a failure in an ISA InterChile transmission line between Vallenar and Coquimbo, causing a chain reaction that disconnected key parts of the national grid. Boric said the incident was “intolerable,” and vowed to hold the subsidiary of Colombia’s ISA accountable.

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• Monday, February 24th 2025 - 07:56 UTC

  Falklands U15 girls and boys teams dispute Friendship Cup in Punta Arenas

  

  Punta Arenas city, southern Chile media is giving a great display to the international juvenile football competition that started on Sunday and has one of its main attractions the Falkland Islands Youth Football teams, both girls and boys.

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• Tuesday, February 11th 2025 - 09:00 UTC

  German President announces South American tour

  

  German President Frank-Walter Steinmeier will be touring Uruguay, Paraguay, and Chile between February 28 and March 8, it was announced Monday in Berlin. The head of state will attend Yamandú Orsi's inauguration in Montevideo on March 1. He is also scheduled to meet with Paraguay's Santiago Peña and Chile's Gabriel Boric Font.

• Sunday, February 9th 2025 - 10:44 UTC

  Falklands’ 17 girls’ team will play female international football in Punta Arenas

  

  On International Girls and Women in Sport Day, the focus is on the Girls Football Team coached by Troyd Bowles. They are about to embark on their biggest challenge yet with the first ever female international football tournament for the Falkland Islands in Punta Arenas.

• Friday, February 7th 2025 - 06:44 UTC

  Punta Arenas expects some 76 cruise calls from February to the end of the season

  

  Magallanes Region extreme south of Chile is expecting the call of some 76 cruise vessels from this month until the end of the season in April. According to the the Austral Ports Enterprise, (EPA), of the 76, 49 are scheduled to dock at Punta Arenas, 14 at Puerto Williams, 7 in Puerto Natales and 3 in Puerto Eden. Of the total number, 58 belong to international cruise companies while the rest are Chilean.

• Tuesday, February 4th 2025 - 10:02 UTC

  Boric meets in Montevideo with Lacalle Pou, Orsi, Mujica, and Topolansky

  

  Chilean President Gabriel Boric Font landed in Montevideo Monday in what is his first visit to Uruguay since taking office. He held meetings with like-minded President-elect Yamandú Orsi and former head of State José Pepe Mujica, among other local leaders to discuss how to further strengthen regional integration.

• Monday, February 3rd 2025 - 10:50 UTC

  Baroness Chapman at RUSI, UK committed to defend Falkland Islanders right to self-determination

  

  “Only the Falkland Islanders can and should decide their own future. Our position regarding the Falkland Islands is steadfast, and our commitment to defending the Falkland Islanders right to self-determination will not waiver.”

• Saturday, February 1st 2025 - 10:55 UTC

  Chile's participation in US visa waiver program might soon be over

  

  Less than a fortnight into Donald Trump's second term as president of the United States, Chilean nationals having access to the Visa Waiver program would have its days numbered. On Friday, 11 Republican lawmakers signed a document favoring their removal from the list. This initiative adds to a previous request from Orange County (California) District Attorney Todd Spitzer.

• Thursday, January 30th 2025 - 08:26 UTC

  Lula and Boric discuss regional integration

  

  Leftwing Presidents Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva of Brazil and Gabriel Boric Font of Chile Wednesday discussed regional integration during a telephone conversation amid Donald Trump's return to the White House and his spree of deporting illegal migrants.

• Wednesday, January 29th 2025 - 09:56 UTC

  Chile's Central Bank keeps benchmark interest rate at 5%

  

  Chile's Central Bank Council unanimously voted Tuesday in favor of keeping the monetary policy interest rate (TPM) at 5% for the second month in a row amid high volatility in global financial markets after the recent change of government in the United States. Tuesday's decision halted a downward trend that had been going on for months.