Chile

• Wednesday, July 14th 2021 - 09:16 UTC

  Chilean Mapuches, carrying weapons and Balaklavas bury comrade killed in shootout with police

  

  Chilean officials strongly condemned the display of guns during the funeral of a man who was killed in a shootout with Carabineros following an arson attack, which took place last Friday in an estate in La Araucanía Region.

• Monday, July 12th 2021 - 08:49 UTC

  Magallanes with first elected governor wants to freeze or relocate concessions for news salmon farms

  

  Next Thursday Magallanes Region will be living a historic event, for the first time an elected governor will be taking office in Punta Arenas. Until now it was the central government, Santiago that appointed the official, but since the political and social reforms that emerged from the 2019/20 upheavals including the current assembly to draft a new constitution, things have changed in Chile particularly exposing the fragility of the so-called “Chilean model”. And in Magallanes, an issue outstands, salmon farming in maritime spaces.

• Monday, July 12th 2021 - 08:36 UTC

  Punta Arenas expects 40 vessels and 226 calls for the 2021/22 cruise season starting next October

  

  Punta Arenas port authorities announced over the weekend that they expect the 2021/22 cruise season to begin next 19 October when “Sylvia Earle” calls at Chile's extreme south terminal. She will be the first of some 226 calls, so far, from forty international cruise vessels to which must be added those from domestic companies.

• Wednesday, July 7th 2021 - 09:21 UTC

  Chile's Constitutional Convention hopes to gets started this Wednesday after numerous technical issues

  

  Chile's Constitutional Assembly is finally set to start its historic sessions Wednesday at 10 am local time in Santiago, following last-minute problems earlier this week.

• Tuesday, July 6th 2021 - 09:00 UTC

  Magallanes Salmon Association: Tierra del Fuego's decision will have no repercussions for Chilean aquaculture

  

  Magallanes Region Salmon Breeders Association Carlos Odebret downplayed the repercussions for the Chilean aquaculture industry of the recent Argentine legislation banning salmon farms in Tierra del Fuego, adding that the industry in Chile has a thirty-year experience and situations are not comparable.

• Monday, July 5th 2021 - 08:07 UTC

  US Judge extends Latam's bankruptcy protection restructuring plan to September 15

  

  The Latam group airlines group reported that the Federal Court from the southern district of New York approved the extension of its restructuring plan to September 15, as part of the bankruptcy protection process initiated last year.

• Monday, July 5th 2021 - 07:22 UTC

  Chile's Constitutional Convention appoints Mapuche woman to chair it

  

  Mapuche leader Elisa Loncón, a Ph.D. in humanities holder from the Dutch University of Leiden, has been chosen Sunday to preside over the Constituent Convention which will re-write Chile's new Fundamental Law to replace the current text from 1980 passed under the military dictatorship of General Augusto Pinochet.

• Friday, July 2nd 2021 - 09:20 UTC

  Chile's economy grows 18.1% thanks to pension withdrawals and state emergency funding

  

  Chile's Central Bank Thursday reported an 18.1% economic growth in May, which has brought it back to the pace of prepandemic levels.

• Friday, June 25th 2021 - 09:47 UTC

  Chile toughens up on border, quarantine controls

  

  Chile has imposed new restrictive measures to enter the country and extended the closure of its borders until July 14, Health Ministry authorities announced Thursday.

• Friday, June 25th 2021 - 09:20 UTC

  First case of Delta coronavirus variant detected in Chile

  

  Chilean authorities have confirmed Thursday the detection of the first case of the SARS-CoV-2 Delta variant. It was a 43-year-old woman who arrived from the United States and who is now under isolation in the southern city of Talca.