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Montevideo, April 4th 2025 - 00:02 UTC

Chile

  • Thursday, September 5th 2024 - 07:45 UTC

    UK Ice Patrol HMS Protector joins the Unitas navies exercise in Chilean waters

    The Ice Patrol enters the port of Valparaíso to participate with 24 partner nations in the US sponsored Unitas annual exercise

    UK Ice Patrol HMS Protector is in Chile where she is taking part in Unitas - the world’s longest running multinational maritime exercise sponsored by the US Navy. This year the Chilean Navy is hosting the exercise, while the Royal Navy's icebreaker served as the backdrop to the opening ceremony.

  • Friday, August 30th 2024 - 07:42 UTC

    Chile's Senate wants ICC to order Maduro's arrest

    The motion was approved by 21 votes to none against and no abstentions

    Chile's Senate Tuesday sent a note to President Gabriel Boric Font to request the International Criminal Court in The Hague (The Netherlands) to issue an arrest warrant against Venezuela's ruler Nicolás Maduro for “serious crimes that constitute a threat to peace, security and the welfare of humanity.” The Bolivarian leader has been under investigation since 2021.

  • Wednesday, August 28th 2024 - 19:02 UTC

    FACh triggers alert over unidentified aircraft neat Strait of Magellan

    When the F-5s reached the area there were no signs of the intruding aircraft

    Chile's Air Force (FACh) deployed two F-5 fighter jets from the Chabunco air base in Punta Arenas after unidentified traffic was detected Tuesday at around 7 pm local time in the vicinity. Some Chilean outlets said the alleged intruder stemmed from Argentina but Defense Minister Maya Fernández never admitted (nor denied) the possibility.

  • Tuesday, August 27th 2024 - 07:24 UTC

    Punta Arenas expects some 170 cruise calls this season, beginning 14 September

    One of the main vessels expected is Majestic Princess, 330 meters long, has a passenger capacity of 3.600, plus 1.340 crew, and is sailing since 2017

    Some 170 cruise calls and an estimated 100,000 visitors are what the Punta Arenas, Austral Ports Enterprise, Epaiustral, is expecting for the coming 2024/25 season. Of these 128 are internationally flagged vessels, while the remaining fifty belong to local Chilean cruise companies, the Ventus and the Stella Australis.

  • Friday, August 23rd 2024 - 10:45 UTC

    Four LatAm countries insist Venezuela's TSJ consolidated fraud

    Arévalo de León, Boric, Lacalle, and Peña agreed on calling Maduro a dictator

    Four Latin American countries were quick Thursday to voice their disagreement with Venezuela's Supreme Court (TSJ) ratifying incumbent President Nicolás Maduro's alleged win at the July 28 elections despite fraud denunciations by the opposition backed by the Organization of American States (OAS) and a large part of the international community.

  • Wednesday, August 21st 2024 - 09:41 UTC

    Jones Huala must leave Chile at the earliest

    Jones Huala first needs to recover from a 50-day hunger strike

    Argentine-born Mapuche rebel Facundo Jones Huala must leave Chile as soon as he is discharged from the hospital where he was admitted after going on a hunger strike for 50 days to demand his freedom which the Supreme Court granted last week, the authorities in Santiago ruled last Friday.

  • Friday, August 16th 2024 - 21:36 UTC

    Chile's Supreme Court orders Jones Huala's release

    Jones Huala was deemed to have served out his sentence by June 14

    Chile's Supreme Court Friday ordered the immediate release of convicted Mapuche leader Facundo Jones Huala of Argentine origin because he had served out his sentence by June 14 and had therefore been “illegally deprived of his freedom.” The Mapuche Ancestral Resistance (RAM) activist had been convicted of arson and illegal possession of firearms in 2013.

  • Friday, August 9th 2024 - 21:06 UTC

    Power restored to customers in Santiago Metropolitan Region

    The electricity company Enel now faces other challenges, Pardow stressed

    The Chilean Government said Friday that the electricity company Enel had met Thursday's goal to restore supply to 20,000 households in the Santiago Metropolitan Region (MR) after an outage that lasted seven days.

  • Friday, August 9th 2024 - 10:55 UTC

    Milei tours Vaca Muerta and Chile with a focus on energy investments

    We have the second-largest shale oil reserves in the world and we can be an exporting power, Milei argued

    Argentine President Javier Milei resumed his mileage accruing habit Thursday with a trip to Vaca Muerta in the Patagonian province of Neuquén and later to Santiago, where he met with local businessmen but not with Gabriel Boric Font.

  • Thursday, August 8th 2024 - 20:36 UTC

    Santiago's electricity company given ultimatum

    In case of failure, the Government would move on to the adversarial phase, Pardow explained

    The Chilean Government of President Gabriel Boric Font Thursday gave the electricity company Enel until midnight local time to reconnect the service to some 20,000 households in the Santiago Metropolitan Region (MR) where the outage reached its seventh day in a row. Energy Minister Diego Pardow held a press conference to explain the impending steps to terminate Enel's concession should it fail to deliver.