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Montevideo, April 25th 2024 - 10:56 UTC

Chile

  • Saturday, March 19th 2016 - 09:13 UTC

    Brazilian situation shows division among Unasur members

    Uruguay is promoting a declaration demanding 'respect for the mandate and government of president Dilma Rousseff', said foreign minister Rodolfo Nin Novoa.

    Unasur, the Union of South American Nations is divided on how to address the Brazilian situation: while Uruguay, Venezuela, Ecuador and Bolivia have agreed on a strong statement in support of president Dilma Rousseff, Argentina expressed 'institutional support' and Chile abstained.

  • Monday, March 14th 2016 - 23:42 UTC

    World famous toothfish poaching vessel caught and destroyed in Indonesia

    The Indonesia navy seized the Nigeria-flagged Viking on Feb. 25 operating in waters off Tanjung Berakit in Riau Islands province south of Singapore.

    Indonesian authorities on Monday bombed the last major ship internationally wanted for years of illegally taking toothfish from southern waters, reiterating a strong message to would-be poachers who enter the country's waters.

  • Saturday, March 12th 2016 - 05:40 UTC

    Chile's challenge: disposing 27.700 tons of algae/bloom dead salmon

    Sernapesca director José Miguel Burgos reported that the Chilean Navy authorized the dumping of 300 tons dead salmon at sea, 75 miles offshore

    More than 27,733 tons, equivalent to 72% of the total salmon mortality caused by algae bloom, have been removed from the farms affected by this contingency, Chile's National Fisheries and Aquaculture Service (Sernapesca) informed. In a new report on the emergency affecting the salmon farming industry in the Chilean southern region of Los Lagos, Sernapesca pointed out that 38 farms have been affected by microalgae bloom in the Concession Groups (ACS) 1, 2, 3A, 6, 7, and 10B, with a total mortality amounting to 23.8 million fish, equivalent to more than 38,500 tons.

  • Wednesday, March 9th 2016 - 07:13 UTC

    Pacific Alliance four members committed “to solid and orderly public finances”

    Valdes said that despite the depreciation of the four/member Pacific Alliance currencies, “we are all committed in keeping solid and orderly public finances”.

    Pacific Alliance members' commitment to maintaining solid and orderly public finances, in a changing global economic environment is crucial to continue to attract investments, said Chile's Finance minister Rodrigo Valdes currently in New York with his peers from Peru, Colombia and Mexico, to promote the region.

  • Tuesday, March 8th 2016 - 12:38 UTC

    Algae bloom in southern Chile causing massive losses in the salmon farms

    Last week the Norwegian company Marine Harvest, the largest salmon producer in the world, reported the deaths of about 1.2 million fish as a result of the algae being identified on their premises, loc

    A group of salmon farms operating in the south of Chile have reported the mass death of millions of salmon. The deaths are attributed to an outbreak of harmful algae, set to generate millions in financial losses and see supermarket prices soar across Chile.

  • Saturday, February 27th 2016 - 01:15 UTC

    Argentina and Chile after friendly settlement over extradition of former guerrilla

    “This is a positive decision,” Chile’s Foreign Affairs Under-Secretary Edgardo Riveros celebrated earlier this week

    Argentina will seek a friendly settlement with Chile regarding the long-standing bilateral conflict over the extradition of Galvarino Apablaza before the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR). Apablaza is accused of involvement in the murder of a conservative Senator and kidnapping of a newspaper executive.

  • Wednesday, February 24th 2016 - 06:33 UTC

    Chileans that damaged a Malvinas monument in Rosario were finally set free

    Last February first, 46 followers of the football team Universidad de Chile were detained for scribbling and graffiti at the Malvinas monument

    The two young Chileans that remained in custody following the graffiti and damages to the Monument to the Malvinas fallen in the National Flag park of the city of Rosario, Argentina were finally set free by Federal Judge Carlos Vera Barros who decided a “lack of merit” in the charges.

  • Thursday, February 18th 2016 - 06:32 UTC

    Punta Arenas expects to become homeport for an Antarctica cruise line

    “Queen Mary 2 is iconic and any port it calls, gets on the spotlight. While she was here everything worked out nicely, which is a powerful indicator”.

    Punta Arenas in the extreme south of Chile is encouraged by the cruise industry prospects for its port and facilities: this season Norwegian Sun has returned with at least ten calls and for 2016/2017 a line will be cruising to Antarctica with Punta Arenas as a home port.

  • Thursday, February 18th 2016 - 01:16 UTC

    Cruise crew member jumps overboard in the south of Chile

    Norwegian Sun is expected to call at Punta Arenas on Thursday.

    A Philippine crew member from the Norwegian Sun cruise vessel jumped overboard before reaching a port in South Chile and has been declared 'disappeared' by the Chilean navy which organized a rescue operation.

  • Tuesday, February 16th 2016 - 07:14 UTC

    LAN celebrating 70 years of air connectivity with Punta Arenas

    In mid February 1946 Lan's maiden flight between the capital Santiago and Punta Arenas took place; a year later, Jan 1947, the regular commercial link was started.

    Chile's flag carrier Lan is celebrating this week the seven decades of its first commercial flight between Santiago and Punta Arenas, extreme south of the country, opening the region to closer trade, tourism and investment opportunities. Actually Lan in the thirties and forties, when the company was first starting did in effect make regional flights from Punta Arenas to nearby places mostly on rough landing strips.