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Montevideo, November 24th 2024 - 18:01 UTC

Chile

  • Friday, March 24th 2017 - 11:09 UTC

    Workers at the world's largest copper mine in Chile end 43/day strike

    The end of the 43-day strike came on the day it broke the record for the longest mining strike in copper-rich Chile's history.

    Workers at the world's largest copper mine, BHP Billiton's Escondida in Chile, ended a lengthy strike Thursday that had caused turbulence on global copper markets. But the company warned they had only made matters worse by pushing negotiations back another year and a half.

  • Thursday, March 23rd 2017 - 08:45 UTC

    Chile's ex president Piñera will again run for office; polls show him leading with 40% vote intention

    “I'm convinced that this election means a crossroads” said Piñera. One option is to insist on the wrong path, the other is to correct the errors,” Piñera said

    Sebastian Piñera, who was Chile's president from 2010 to 2014, officially declared this week his intention to seek the office again this year, betting that widespread disillusion with the governing coalition will help him win over voters. Conservative Piñera who ranks 745th on the Forbes list of the world's richest billionaires, is bidding for the nomination of the 'Chile Vamos' coalition, formed by his party and the more conservative UDI.

  • Monday, February 27th 2017 - 08:47 UTC

    Torrential rains and mudslides leave 4 million people in Santiago with no drinking water

    The torrential rain that started Saturday prompted mudslides and rubble to surge into the Maipo river which supplies most homes in the capital.

    Just two weeks ago Chile was desperately combating with foreign support thousands of acres of bushfires out of control, but now over the weekend rainstorms and landslides killed four and contaminated a major river, forcing authorities to cut off drinking water to four million people in the capital Santiago, authorities said.

  • Tuesday, February 21st 2017 - 12:10 UTC

    Chilen Navy operating from Punta Arenas rescues Australian yacht skipper

    Solo skipper Shane Freeman abandoned the Mushka yacht which has been scuttled to prevent a hazard to navigation, after being rescued by a Chilean Navy sea

    The Chilean Navy rescued 61-year-old Australian skipper Shane Freeman after his yacht Mushka was knocked down and dismasted 300 nautical miles west of Chile. The Australian was on his way to the Sunday Times Golden Globe race’s start line in the UK in his Tradewind 35 class yacht when the incident happened on 18 February 2017.

  • Tuesday, February 14th 2017 - 10:05 UTC

    Punta Arenas cruise season described as “a true record”

    Over the weekend 4.000 visitors from the Silver Spirit, Queen Victoria and Stella Australis, landed in Punta Arenas

    Punta Arenas is enjoying a record cruise season with over 20.000 visitors in the last week according to the numbers released by the port's authority. This includes the 4.000 which landed over the weekend from the Silver Spirit, Queen Victoria and Stella Australis.

  • Friday, February 10th 2017 - 18:38 UTC

    Greenpeace calls on Mitsubishi not to move salmon farms to Magallanes region in Chilean Patagonia

    “Chile is home to 36% of world's marine mammal diversity, which is why protection of its seas is key and of great relevance to the entire planet”

    Greenpeace has urged Japanese conglomerate Mitsubishi to stop expanding its salmon farming operations in Magallanes, as part of its new global campaign focused on protecting the seas of Chilean Patagonia. The launch of the campaign, “Save the seas at the end of the world,” brought together people and activists who gathered in lighthouses along Chile's nearly 4,000 kilometres coastline to claim protection for ecosystems of the southern seas.

  • Friday, February 10th 2017 - 11:33 UTC

    Strike at world's largest copper mine in Chile; long conflict forecasted

    The striking workers are building a campsite right outside the mine. The union has warned it is prepared for a lengthy strike

    Workers at BHP Billiton's Escondida copper mine in Chile, the world's largest, walked off the job on Thursday in a strike that threatens to disrupt the international supply of the widely used metal. It said no miners arrived for morning work aboard buses that normally carry upwards of 1,200 workers per shift to the vast deposit, which accounted for about 6% of global production in 2015.

  • Thursday, February 9th 2017 - 11:47 UTC

    New outbreak of toxic algae in south Chile kills causes massive death of smolt

    As a result of this incident, Nova Austral S.A. suspended salmon stocking in its centres, until they are certain that the mentioned algae has disappeared

    An estimated 149,000 salmon that were being transported to a site of Nova Austral located in the Magallanes Region of Chile, to be stocked, presumably died because of a toxic microalga.The company's general manager, Nicos Nicolaides, said that the death of 105,000 fish of 210 grams that were transported by the ship Don Pedro and another 44,000 fish of 420 grams carried by the ship Maria Ines, occurred near Gulf Penas.

  • Friday, February 3rd 2017 - 11:42 UTC

    Falklands implements closer educational links with Chilean university

    In October 2016, an MOU was signed between the Falkland Islands Government and the Chilean British University in Santiago, Chile.

    A Chilean professor from the Chilean British University in Santiago will be arriving in the Falkland Islands on Saturday to begin the implementation process of the MOU signed between the Islands government and the university to have Chilean students complete their degree levels in Falklands.

  • Friday, February 3rd 2017 - 11:10 UTC

    Chile creates new 11.000 km2 marine eco-region in Juan Fernandez Island

    The area comprises more than 11,000 square kilometers around the archipelago located 670 kilometers from Valparaiso

    The alfonsin, the orange roughy and the cod, as well as a variety of species of fragile environments, are part of the ecosystem that is now located in the new Coastal Marine Protected Area of Multiple Uses (AMCP-MU) called “Mar de Juan Fernandez”, placed in the archipelago of the same name.