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Montevideo, April 21st 2025 - 23:09 UTC

Chile

  • 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.

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

    Magallanes enjoying an unexpected excellent cruise season

    “The number of cruise visitors has jumped from an expected 60.000 to 80.000 with 119 calls to the end of the season next April, representing a 30% increase” said Araya

    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

    Representative Jaime Trobo from Uruguay's senior opposition party, Partido Nacional

    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

    Ambassador Jose Antonio Viera-Galo received the director of the Flag Monument, Hernan Colautti and war veterans to whom he delivered the official letter

    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

    Multiexports Food admitted having suffered “significant fish mortality” and blames the bloom to “unusual and extreme weather and oceanographic conditions”

    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

    USGS provided a mean estimate of 8.27 trillion cubic feet of gas and 83 million barrels of natural gas liquids.

    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 recent weeks recovered in Magallanes with strong demand from the services sector: hotels, gastronomy, confirming prospects of a good summer season.

    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.