Chile

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

  Cruise crew member jumps overboard in the south of Chile

  

  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

  

  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.

• Thursday, February 11th 2016 - 05:22 UTC

  Magallanes enjoying an unexpected excellent cruise season

  

  Chile anticipates a 30% increase in cruise activity in the extreme south of the country, mainly Punta Arenas and Puerto Natales, announced Lorena Araya, head of Magallanes region National Tourism Service, Sernatur.

• Wednesday, February 10th 2016 - 23:11 UTC

  Montevideo-Stanley, an integrating and necessary air link

  

  By Jaime Trobo (*) - For some time now we have been arguing that Uruguay must strengthen its bonds and contacts with a neighboring territory, in the southern cone, part of our American continent, where families who arrived in our region during the first half of the XIX century live, and with whom those contacts, once very intense, have waned, particularly in the last decades.

• Friday, February 5th 2016 - 06:27 UTC

  Chilean government condemns vandalism by fans at Malvinas Memorial in Rosario

  

  The Chilean ambassador in Buenos Aires met with Malvinas war veterans and the head of the National Monument to the Flag in the city of Rosario, and delivered an official letter condemning the violent actions and destruction by fans from the University of Chile football team against a Memorial to the Malvinas fallen.

• Thursday, February 4th 2016 - 18:19 UTC

  Toxic algae bloom in south Chile threatening salmon farms

  

  Chilean aquaculture company Multiexports Food reported that due to the harmful algal bloom (HAB) recorded in various areas of the southern Regions X and XI of Chile, their production centers of Huyar and Lligua have suffered “significant fish mortality,” which has not been quantified yet.

• Thursday, February 4th 2016 - 08:17 UTC

  Magallanes region in south Chile could hold a treasure of unconventional tight gas

  

  The U.S. Geological Survey estimates that the Glauconitica zone of Chile's southernmost Magallanes region holds nearly 8.3 trillion cubic feet of technically recoverable, unconventional tight gas, or nearly double Chile's production of that fossil fuel over the past 70 years.

• Tuesday, February 2nd 2016 - 08:07 UTC

  Magallanes region with second lowest unemployment in Chile

  

  Employment in Magallanes Region, extreme south of Chile remains strong according to the latest data released by the Chilean stats office, INE, which covers the fourth quarter of 2015 (October/December). While the national unemployment average stands at 5.8%, Magallanes figures with 2.6 percentage points below.

• Monday, February 1st 2016 - 05:48 UTC

  Chile to provide gas to Argentina in winter months; Enap and YPF will increase production in Magallanes

  

  The government of Chile will be selling energy-short Argentina 5.5 million cubic feet of natural gas a day starting in May, providing also 200 MW of electricity through the interconnection system between both countries. Chile also committed to invest 200 million dollars in the Incremental Project of the Magallanes Area to boost hydrocarbon production.

• Monday, February 1st 2016 - 05:16 UTC

  Bachelet in tears admits 'painful' ordeal after formal tax fraud charges against her daughter in law

  

  A Chilean court Friday brought formal tax fraud charges against the daughter in law of President Michelle Bachelet in a scandal the leftist leader tearfully admitted was a “painful” ordeal. The case first came to light a year ago and has shocked the public in Chile, which is ranked by Transparency International as one of the least corrupt countries in Latin America.