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Montevideo, April 4th 2025 - 17:24 UTC

Chile

  • Tuesday, May 21st 2024 - 10:16 UTC

    Chilean authorities to discuss Antarctica issues on site

    Defense Minister Maya Fernández and a group of parliamentarians will convene at the President Frei Base this week

    Chilean Lower House's Defense Committee plans to convene at the Presidente Eduardo Frei Montalva base in Antarctica this week to discuss the “prevailing geopolitical conditions” in the area after controversies with Argentina regarding sovereignty claims.

  • Saturday, May 18th 2024 - 10:45 UTC

    Ecuadorean stowaway captured in Chile trying to board flight to Argentina

    The trespasser was handed over to the police for proper legal procedures

    A new security incident was recorded Friday at Santiago de Chile's Nuevo Pudahuel - Arturo Merino Benítez International Airport when an Ecuadorean stowaway was caught trying to board a cargo plane bound for Argentina.

  • Monday, May 13th 2024 - 10:59 UTC

    Falklands war: “The secret pact between Chile and the United Kingdom”, ex-head of Argentine Army

    Thatcher visits General Pinochet on the Wentworth estate

    A former commander in chief of the Argentine Army, 2003 to 2011, and Malvinas Veteran, Martín Balza in a recent column in the Buenos Aires daily Perfil, wrote a column exposing what he described as 'a secret pact between Chile and UK', to help avoid the defeat of the British Task Force in 1982 during the Falkland Islands conflict with Argentina.

  • Sunday, April 28th 2024 - 13:37 UTC

    Chile in mourning after murder of 3 Carabineros officers

    Boric decreed three days of national mourning and pledged to capture those responsible

    Three non-commissioned officers of Chile's Carabineros Police were killed early Saturday in an ambush in the town of Cañete, near the city of Concepción, in the Bío Bío region some 500 kilometers south of Santiago. The crime, which is still under investigation, shocked the entire country. President Gabriel Boric Font promised it would not go unpunished and other officials even called for the reinstatement of the death penalty.

  • Saturday, April 27th 2024 - 10:59 UTC

    Cases of dengue in mainland Chile are all imported

    Autochthonous cases were only recorded in Easter Island

    Chilean health authorities said that dengue fever was on the rise nationwide last week, now totaling 228 confirmed cases, none of them autochthonous (patients with no recent travel history) in Chile's mainland. Nevertheless, local experts underlined that the Aedes Aegyppti mosquito was present in the country as a result of weather abnormalities stemming from climate change.

  • Wednesday, April 24th 2024 - 20:29 UTC

    US Ambassador in Santiago to remain mum following leaks to the press regarding confidential talks with Congress

    Meehan briefed Chilean lawmakers on initiatives to remove the South American country from the US Visa-Waver Program

    US Ambassador to Santiago Bernadette Meehan told Chilean lawmakers Wednesday that she would no longer be briefing them on the possible exclusion of the South American country from Washington's Visa-Waver program after details of her confidential meeting with parliamentarians were published by the website El Mostrador.

  • Tuesday, April 23rd 2024 - 20:28 UTC

    Rebel Mapuche leader Héctor Llaitul found guilty, faces up to 25 years in jail

    Llaitul claimed the trial was the result of the clash between two cultures

    Mapuche leader Héctor Llaitul has been found guilty of attacking authorities and other violent crimes. The prosecution has requested Llaitul be jailed for 25 years but the sentence will only be announced next month. The defendant claimed the trial was fueled by a “political persecution” stemming from the clash between two cultures. The indigenous leader was arrested in August 2022 and has since been remanded in custody at the Biobío Penitentiary Complex, some 500 kilometers from Santiago.

  • Tuesday, April 23rd 2024 - 09:35 UTC

    Chile's Council of Former Foreign Ministers discusses Venezuela and Hezbollah

    Van Klaveren was told there was consensus about not breaking up with Caracas

    Chile's Council of Former Foreign Ministers convened Monday to discuss the current state of affairs with Venezuela and Hezbollah's threat to the region, among other topics, it was reported in Santiago.

  • Saturday, April 20th 2024 - 10:39 UTC

    Chile's new icebreaker completes first week at sea

    The new Almirante Viel is to be launched on Dec. 22

    The new Chilean-built “Almirante Viel” icebreaker completed her first week of sea testing on Friday, it was reported in Santiago.

  • Monday, April 15th 2024 - 23:59 UTC

    Chilean FM says conditions not met for free elections in Venezuela

    Van Kleveren also pointed out that the ongoing crisis in the Middle East seemed distant but was not

    The Chilean Government of President Gabriel Boric Font is adopting a neutral stance regarding Venezuela's political crisis by keeping active ties with the administration of President Nicolás Maduro as well as with disenfranchised opposition leader María Corina Machado. However, “there are no conditions for free elections in Venezuela,” Santiago's Foreign Minister Alberto van Klaveren told reporters during the weekend.