Chile

• Saturday, August 23rd 2014 - 07:14 UTC

  Despite overall slowing down in Chile, Magallanes region continues to grow

  

  Although overall Chile is undergoing a period of economic deceleration, which the government is trying to address with lower rates and full execution of public works investments, the Magallanes region in the extreme south of the country was among those with the best performance in the second quarter having expanded a healthy 2.8%.

• Saturday, August 23rd 2014 - 06:46 UTC

  Chilean Peso depreciation expected to continue in coming months

  

  The US dollar climbed to 584 Chilean Pesos at the end of trading in the Santiago money market, signaling a slow but steady increase for several months now and with prospects of continuing according to analysts. A greenback at 600 Pesos is not far away according to market analysts.

• Wednesday, August 20th 2014 - 09:43 UTC

  Chile's economy cooling faster than expected: weakest pace since 2009

  

  Chile's GDP grew at its weakest pace since 2009 in the second quarter as investment waned and a previously rapid expansion in consumer spending slowed, central bank data showed. The economy grew 1.9% in the second quarter compared with a year ago, or a seasonally adjusted 0.2% compared with the first quarter.

• Tuesday, August 19th 2014 - 09:10 UTC

  Chilean ferry strikes rocks and is half sunk in the Puerto Natales/Puerto Montt link

  

  The Chilean navy is deploying two vessels to contain possible fuel leaks, in the area where a Navimag ferry on Monday morning struck a group of rocks and is half sunk and half resting on a beach.

• Tuesday, August 19th 2014 - 08:05 UTC

  Falklands' war statements from Chilean minister praised by Argentine peer

  

  Argentine Defense minister Agustín Rossi praised on Monday his Chilean peer statements relative to Chile's role and attitude during the Falklands war when Britain sent a task force to expulse the Argentine military invasion in 1982.

• Monday, August 18th 2014 - 06:52 UTC

  “Chile not proud of Falklands war support”, but “proud of peace treaty with Argentina”

  

  Defense minister Jorge Burgos said that most Chileans are not proud of the attitude of the Pinochet dictatorship when the Falklands/Malvinas war, but also admitted it happened at a very different and difficult moment in the relations between Chile and Argentina.

• Friday, August 15th 2014 - 06:40 UTC

  Chilean lawmakers approve initiative to ban trawling in territorial waters

  

  The House of Representatives approved this week a draft agreement to ban trawling in Chile. With 55 votes in support, six against and five abstentions, the deputies voted in favor of the Draft Resolution No. 100, which requests the Executive to submit a legislative initiative to amend Article 49 of Act No. 18,892 in order to ban fish catching by trawling.

• Friday, August 15th 2014 - 02:26 UTC

  All phone calls inside Chile become local; Punta Arenas code area is 61

  

  Chile has become a single territory for telecommunications and long distance calls with different rates for fixed lines will no longer exist beginning Saturday. This in practical terms will also means a 50% reduction on normal phone calls.

• Thursday, August 14th 2014 - 06:19 UTC

  Santiago's security chief fires following the record “embarrassing” robbery

  

  Chile has fired the security chief of the country's main airport after an “embarrassing” robbery of more than 10 million dollars at the cargo terminal. Defense Minister Jorge Burgos said a probe had been launched into how eight armed men had managed to steal the money from a security van at the airport in the capital, Santiago.

• Wednesday, August 13th 2014 - 01:15 UTC

  Chile's massive 2010 earthquake caused Antarctica glaciers to calve and 'icequakes'

  

  A massive earthquake that struck Chile in 2010 caused glaciers thousands of miles away in Antarctica to calve, a study published Sunday in the journal Nature Geoscience found. Seismic surface waves radiating away from the earthquake’s epicenter traveled some 4,700 kilometers before passing through Antarctica’s ice sheets and causing small tremors, or “icequakes.”