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Montevideo, January 21st 2026 - 21:14 UTC

Chile

  • Tuesday, April 12th 2016 - 22:18 UTC

    Punta Arenas cruise season: 29% increase in the number of visitors landings

    The number of cruise vessel calls this season increased from 48 to 54. During the 2014/15 season, the number of cruise visitors landed was 78.908.

    Almost 30% more cruise visitors landed in Punta Arenas, extreme south of Chile, during the current 2015/16 season which is coming to an end. According to Chile's maritime migration officers, 109.746 cruise passengers and crew members were recorded, which represents a 29% compared to the previous season. The primary report was released by La Prensa Austral.

  • Wednesday, April 6th 2016 - 07:23 UTC

    Panama Papers: Head of Chile's Transparency International has to step down

    “Gonzalo Delaveau resigned as president of Transparency Chile, which has been accepted by the board of directors,” the agency said on Twitter.

    In another unexpected to come from this Panama Papers scandal, the head of the Chile office of the corruption watchdog group Transparency International has resigned after his name appeared in the data leak.

  • Monday, April 4th 2016 - 19:15 UTC

    Magallanes region has the lowest unemployment rate in Chile, 1.8%

    Magallanes 1,8% confirms its ranking as Chile´s region with lowest unemployment rate, followed by Los Lagos with a 2.2% rate and Aysén with 3.4%.

    The unemployment rate in Magallanes extreme south region of Chile recorded 1.8% in the December-February quarter according to the country's Statistics Institute, INE, which compares favorably with 2.8% in the previous quarter and the national rate of 5.9%.

  • Friday, April 1st 2016 - 07:44 UTC

    UK at Chile's Air and Space Fair offering a significant range of defense products

    This significant UK presence reflects the strong commitment that UK companies have to Chile, the Armed Forces and the region.

    Partnership, disaster relief, industrial cooperation and innovation are the main UK themes as UK companies exhibit a range of world beating defense capabilities at Chile's FIDAE 2016, some attending for the first time, others as a result of having exhibited at a successful FIDAE 2014.

  • Thursday, March 31st 2016 - 08:25 UTC

    Chile confirms the loss of 39.000 tons of salmon equivalent to toxic algae

    Burgos explained that 57% of salmon was absorbed by processing plants manufacturing fishmeal while another 30.3% was discarded in landfills.

    Some 25 million of fish -- equivalent to 39,942 tons of dead biomass -- was the final balance of the emergency caused by algae bloom in 45 farms in the salmon farms of the southern region of Chile, Los Lagos, reported SERNAPESCA, director José Miguel Burgos. A several month’s bloom of toxic algae causes ravage in south Chile salmon and trout farms.

  • 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.