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Montevideo, October 21st 2025 - 00:17 UTC

Chile

  • Tuesday, April 23rd 2024 - 09:35 UTC

    Chile's Council of Former Foreign Ministers discusses Venezuela and Hezbollah

    Van Klaveren was told there was consensus about not breaking up with Caracas

    Chile's Council of Former Foreign Ministers convened Monday to discuss the current state of affairs with Venezuela and Hezbollah's threat to the region, among other topics, it was reported in Santiago.

  • Saturday, April 20th 2024 - 10:39 UTC

    Chile's new icebreaker completes first week at sea

    The new Almirante Viel is to be launched on Dec. 22

    The new Chilean-built “Almirante Viel” icebreaker completed her first week of sea testing on Friday, it was reported in Santiago.

  • Monday, April 15th 2024 - 23:59 UTC

    Chilean FM says conditions not met for free elections in Venezuela

    Van Kleveren also pointed out that the ongoing crisis in the Middle East seemed distant but was not

    The Chilean Government of President Gabriel Boric Font is adopting a neutral stance regarding Venezuela's political crisis by keeping active ties with the administration of President Nicolás Maduro as well as with disenfranchised opposition leader María Corina Machado. However, “there are no conditions for free elections in Venezuela,” Santiago's Foreign Minister Alberto van Klaveren told reporters during the weekend.

  • Friday, April 12th 2024 - 10:12 UTC

    Milei's recent presence in Ushuaia triggers sovereignty concerns in Chile

    Radonich insisted Santiago needed not to just watch the ongoing events in the south from a distance

    Mayor Claudio Radonich of the southern Chilean city of Punta Arenas insisted this week that his country had “deantarticulated” over the past 30 years and urged the political leadership to be much more “intense” in matters concerning Antarctica given Argentine President Javier Milei's recent actions regarding the area when a United States base in Ushuaia was announced during US Southern Command Chief General Laura Richardson's visit.

  • Monday, April 1st 2024 - 18:44 UTC

    Google to lay submarine cable between Chile and Australia

    The Humboldt cable will join other infrastructure projects, Google Cloud's Quigley said

    Tech giants Google plan to link Chile with Australia and French Polynesia through the Humboldt cable, which would become first direct submarine link between South America and Oceania, thus expanding the digital infrastructure of the South Pacific.

  • Thursday, March 28th 2024 - 18:57 UTC

    Chile: Slight increase in unemployment reported

    The increase in the labor force was greater than the increase in the number of employed people, Chile's INE found

    Chile's National Statistics Institute (INE) released a report Thursday showing that unemployment in the mobile quarter from December 2023 to February 2024 reached 8.5%, an annual increase of 0.1%. In the Santiago Metropolitan Region (RM), it reached 9.3%, which represented a decrease of 0.4% in twelve months.

  • Saturday, March 23rd 2024 - 10:21 UTC

    Argentina's Ambassador to Chile a nuisance to local authorities

    Former Foreign Minister Faurie denied the allegations

    Argentina's Ambassador and former Foreign Minister Jorge Faurie was reported Friday to have been disrespectful to members of Chile's diplomatic corps and other authorities of the hosting country. Four letters were sent to Chile's Presidency explaining the situation during a recent joint visit to the Libertadores border crossing.

  • Wednesday, March 20th 2024 - 18:55 UTC

    French company to open world's first solar-powered air traffic control station in Chile

    “No one had ever made a radar 100% independent of the power grid,” Thales' Macaferri explained

    The French company Thales will be opening a 100% solar energy-powered air traffic control (ATC) station in Chile, it was announced in Santiago. The facility will be in the city of Calama in the Atacama Desert in the northern part of the country, it was also explained. The radars consume about one megawatt per hour.

  • Tuesday, March 19th 2024 - 11:04 UTC

    Boric says Chile's economy will take off in 2024 after dodging recession

    Growth is going to be noticed in the pockets of families, said Boric

    Chilean President Gabriel Boric Font said Monday that his country's economy would “take off” this year after dodging recession in 2023 and reaching a meager 0.2% growth.

  • Wednesday, March 13th 2024 - 09:08 UTC

    Drug trafficking gangs: Brazil's PCC operating in Chile

    The PCC Chile branch is headed by Juan Bayron Nataly Santander, alias “Pelado”

    Following a confession from a Chilean prison inmate, it was determined that São Paulo's notorious First Capital Command (PCC) had expanded its operations, it was reported in Santiago. In addition, raids in correctional facilities in Brazil detected communications further corroborated the news since proof of communications between the two countries was detected.