Chile

• Saturday, December 29th 2018 - 08:36 UTC

  Another outbreak of ISA in Chilean Patagonia salmon farms

  

  Chile's National Fisheries and Aquaculture Service (SERNAPESCA) has established zoning areas following the detection and outbreak of the ISA virus, Infectious Salmon Anemia at Rowlett 749 center in the Patagonia Aysén Region.

• Saturday, December 29th 2018 - 08:25 UTC

  Bill only allowing jigging to capture giant squid triggers controversy in Chile

  

  The Chilean Association of Fishing Industry (ASIPES) has expressed its “absolute concern” following the approval of a bill modifying the General Fisheries and Aquaculture Act, limiting the capture of the giant squid (Dossidicus gigas) to jigging or hand lining.

• Saturday, December 29th 2018 - 07:36 UTC

  HMS Montrose en route to Bahrain calls at Easter Island

  

  The crew of HMS Montrose have spent the end of Christmas week on the remote Pacific Easter Island – famous for its huge stone statues. It’s thought to be the first time this century a British warship has visited the Chilean territory, which is about the size of Sheffield – but home to fewer than 8,000 people.

• Friday, December 28th 2018 - 08:40 UTC

  Chile, “darling” of foreign investors has seen number of slums double since 2011

  

  The number of slums in Chile, one of Latin America’s most prosperous and stable economies, has nearly doubled since 2011, the government said, as an influx of migrants increasingly faces a lack of low-income housing and rising rents.

• Thursday, December 27th 2018 - 14:28 UTC

  Chile's development comes paired with that of blighted areas

  

  Despute being one the most stable economies in the region, shanty town developments are also on the rise in Chile. Immigration and other factors have contributed to the downside of prosperity.

• Wednesday, December 26th 2018 - 22:44 UTC

  Chile: Piñera needs constitutional reforms to change procedure for removal of Carabineros chief

  

  Chilean President Sebastián Piñera Wednesday morning announced he would seek a constitutional reform before Congress to bring to an end the “founded decree” mechanism to remove Carabineros' director generals after last week's dismussal of General Hermes Soto.

• Monday, December 24th 2018 - 12:31 UTC

  Chilean lawmakers to parley with Mapuche leaders in January

  

  Chile's Speaker of the House of Deputies Maya Fernández-Allende has agreed to hold a special session during the second week of January with Mapuche leaders to discuss as violence in La Araucanía and the murder of Camilo Catrillanca, it was announced.

• Saturday, December 22nd 2018 - 15:39 UTC

  General Rozas becomes new director of Carabineros as Hermes Soto is sacked

  

  Chile's President Sebastián Piñera Friday appointed General Mario Rozas as the new director of Carabineros following the dismissal of General Hermes Soto on Thursday after three vídeos of the force's unproper handling of the Catrillanca case were released.

• Saturday, December 22nd 2018 - 09:24 UTC

  Mapuche rebel Jones-Huala gets 9 years in Chilean prison

  

  Argentine Mapuche leader Facundo Jones Huala was sentenced Friday to nine years and one day in jail by a Chilean court in Valdivia. Jones-Huala received a six-year sentence for arson plus three years and one day for illegal possession of a firearm in the context of the 2013 attack at the Pisu Pisué farm in Río Bueno.

• Thursday, December 20th 2018 - 08:11 UTC

  Earthquake rocks Chile's Easter Island, but no tsunami

  

  An earthquake measuring 6.2 degrees on the Richter scale struck Chile's Easter Islands in the South Pacific Ocean on Wednesday, US and Chilean seismic centres reported, while an ensuing tsunami was ruled out.