Chile

• Sunday, October 20th 2019 - 09:26 UTC

  Chilean president suspends rise in metro fares, pledges dialogue and night curfew in most restive areas

  

  Chile's President Sebastián Piñera announced on Saturday the suspension of a rise in metro fares that sparked protests across the country. Soldiers and tanks were deployed in the capital, Santiago after the government declared a state of emergency but demonstrations continued on Saturday.

• Saturday, October 19th 2019 - 09:50 UTC

  Santiago on fire and with no transport and Piñera in a family party at a pizza parlor

  

  The Chilean government established on Friday night a state of national emergency in the capital Santiago and surrounding areas following extensive arson, rioting and looting in the city by students protesting transport fares, particularly subway fares, which are considered among the most expensive in the region.

• Wednesday, October 16th 2019 - 18:35 UTC

  Russia eyeing a controlling stake in lithium project in Chile's Atacama desert

  

  Uranium One Group, a subsidiary of Russia’s state nuclear company Rosatom, may buy a controlling stake in a lithium project in Chile’s Atacama salt flat from Wealth Minerals Ltd, the Canada-listed company said on Tuesday.

• Wednesday, October 16th 2019 - 04:51 UTC

  APEC finance ministers meeting in Chile, cautiously optimistic on a Beijing/USA trade agreement

  

  APEC finance ministers expressed “moderate optimism” on Tuesday that the United States and China will end their trade war and sign an agreement during the forum's summit in Santiago next month.

• Saturday, October 12th 2019 - 09:50 UTC

  Winners of the Falklands regional student competition have been announced

  

  The Falkland Islands Government and the British embassies in Argentina, Brazil, Chile and Uruguay have announced the winners of the 2019/2020 student competition to visit the Falkland Islands.

• Tuesday, October 1st 2019 - 09:50 UTC

  Chile's production of copper and lithium increased during August

  

  Chile's production of both copper and lithium jumped in August, even as the country's manufacturing production dropped 1.5% compared with the same month the previous year, government data showed on Monday.

• Thursday, September 26th 2019 - 21:24 UTC

  Chilean helicopter rescues Polish scientists stranded in a Zodiac

  

  What was to be a simple shift of scientists from the Polish station Henryk Arcotowski in the Antarctica Peninsula turned out into a dramatic rescue operation, involving the Chilean Air Force, after the three were stranded in a Zodiac for over three hours five miles offshore surrounded by ice and freezing winds.

• Tuesday, September 24th 2019 - 09:50 UTC

  Bachelet feels sorry for Brazil, “how I take things, depends on who is saying them...”

  

  U.N. human rights chief Michelle Bachelet, who earlier this month came under personal attack from Brazilian president Jair Bolsonaro, says she feels sorry for Brazil, according to a Chilean media report published on Sunday.

• Sunday, September 22nd 2019 - 22:59 UTC

  Bachelet pities Brazil over Bolsonaro's support to Pinochet

  

  The United Nations' High Commissioner for Human Rights Michelle Bachelet said Saturday she felt “sorry for Brazil,” after President Jair Bolsonaro publicly expressed his support for former Chilean dictator Augusto Pinochet.

• Thursday, September 19th 2019 - 02:23 UTC

  Piñera critical of opposition, clergy during Chile's National Holiday

  

  Chile's President Sebastián Piñera criticised opposition leaders and members of the clergy alike Wednesday after the religious ceremony marking the country's National Holiday.