Chile

• Saturday, February 1st 2020 - 08:47 UTC

  Violence resurgence in Chile: three deaths, looting and torched supermarkets

  

  A man died of carbon monoxide poisoning after a supermarket was torched in Chile's capital Santiago on Friday, bringing the death toll from a resurgence in violent unrest rose to three. A mob looted and then set fire to the supermarket in southern Santiago in the early hours of Friday.

• Saturday, February 1st 2020 - 08:43 UTC

  Chile unemployment rose to 7% in the last quarter of 2019

  

  Chile’s jobless rate rose to 7.0% during the October to December period, the government said on Friday, an early, but still tepid, sign of the potential impact of two months of unrest in late 2019.

• Saturday, January 25th 2020 - 09:22 UTC

  First trail in Chile over eye injuries to protestor by Carabineros firing buckshot

  

  A Chilean police officer appeared in court on Friday in the first instance of prosecutors bringing charges over eye injuries blamed on security forces during Chile's months of unrest.

• Saturday, January 25th 2020 - 09:15 UTC

  Chile's business community anticipates an ailing economy during 2020

  

  Chile's central bank is expected to hold its benchmark rate at 1.75% in January, a poll of 62 traders showed on Friday, then keep it there through 2020 as seeks to spur the ailing economy following months of unrest in the key mining nation.

• Saturday, January 25th 2020 - 09:08 UTC

  Chile spurring lithium mining: copper giant Codelco joins the exploration

  

  Chile state miner Codelco filed with regulators on Friday a plan to begin exploration for lithium in its Maricunga salt flat holdings, a key step in advancing development of the country's second richest deposit of the metal needed for batteries.

• Thursday, January 16th 2020 - 08:55 UTC

  HMS Scott honors HMS Antelope sunk in the Falklands' Sound

  

  On a grey midsummer day in the Southern Hemisphere, the crew of HMS Scott pause for reflection over one of the Navy’s most hallowed sites. Ten meters below this spot, sitting upright, almost snapped in two, is the shattered hull of frigate HMS Antelope, torn apart by a series of explosions after bomb disposal experts triggered an unexploded device, in turn detonating the ship’s magazine.

• Tuesday, January 14th 2020 - 09:50 UTC

  Chile's oil company ENAP faces sanctions for hydro-fracking in Tierra del Fuego

  

  Chile’s environmental regulator on Monday charged state oil company ENAP with improper fracking in Tierra del Fuego, a wild, largely unpopulated region at the southern fringe of the South American continent.

• Monday, January 13th 2020 - 09:58 UTC

  Kirchnerite old hands back in the foreign ministry; Argüello ambassador in US and Bielsa in Chile

  

  Kirchnerite old hands are back at the Argentine ministry of foreign affairs and worship. The most outstanding is Jorge Argüello who was appointed ambassador in Washington but at the same time coordinator of other appointments in the different multilateral and regional organizations in the US capital, such as IMF, World Bank, Inter American Development Bank and the OAS.

• Saturday, January 11th 2020 - 09:53 UTC

  Chile opens public consultation period for two marine parks

  

  Chile's Sub-secretariat of Fisheries and Aquaculture (Subpesca) is carrying out a public consultation on the general management plans designed for the Nazcas-Desventuradas and Francisco Coloane marine parks, located in the regions of Valparaíso and southern Magallanes, respectively.

• Wednesday, January 8th 2020 - 09:46 UTC

  Chilean activity down and poor prospects for this year, following weeks of social unrest

  

  Economic activity in Chile dropped 3.3% in November, led by a slump in mining activity, the central bank has said, and officials predicted low growth for the coming year as the country reels from anti-government unrest. The prediction is based on Chile’s economic activity index or IMACEC (Indicador Mensual de Actividad Economica).