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Montevideo, December 4th 2024 - 09:50 UTC

Chile

  • Wednesday, October 2nd 2024 - 08:38 UTC

    The woman who will lead Chile’s counter-revolution, according to The Economist

    Evelyn Matthei, currently mayor of a posh Santiago suburb comfortably leads opinion polls for November 2025 presidential election

    The graffiti are still visible. Walls shout: “Death to the police!” Bus shelters demand: “No more private pensions!” Yet the occasionally violent social upheaval that rocked Chile from 2019 to 2022 is past. And the radical left-wing movement it propelled to power is now unpopular, having discovered that governing is harder than protesting.

  • Wednesday, October 2nd 2024 - 06:48 UTC

    LATAM with improved performance results looking to refinance debts

    LATAM had a net profit of US$146 million in the second quarter, driven by growth and healthy margins, accumulating US$405 million in six months of 2024

    LATAM Airlines has announced an interest in refinancing its US$450 million 13.375% Senior Secured Bonds maturing in 2027, and its current US$1.1 billion term loan agreement. The debt was issued in October 2022 in connection with its exit from the reorganization proceedings under Chapter 11 of Title 11 of the United States Code.

  • Wednesday, October 2nd 2024 - 06:28 UTC

    Falklands, “Ring of Fire” solar eclipse begins peaking at 17:30

    Different phases of a solar eclipse

    This Wednesday afternoon a spectacular “ring of fire” annular solar eclipse will be visible for some parts of South America. While southern Chile and Argentina, Patagonia, will see a ring of the Sun as the Moon passes in front of it, those in the Falklands Islands will see a large solar eclipse.

  • Wednesday, October 2nd 2024 - 06:20 UTC

    UN Human Rights Council 57: UPR Adoption of Chile

    United Nations Office Buildings Complex in Geneva

    UK Statement for the Universal Periodic Review Adoption of Chile as delivered at the 57th Human Rights Council in Geneva. From the Mission to the WTO, UN and Other International Organizations in Geneva.30 September 2024 (*)

  • Wednesday, September 25th 2024 - 11:03 UTC

    Boric insists human rights are to be defended against anyone violating them

    Boric described Maduro's government in Venezuela as a dictatorship trying to steal the elections

    Chilean President Gabriel Boric Font said Tuesday during his participation at the United Nations General Assembly that leftwing countries needed to have a single stance on human rights violations, regardless of whether they were committed by Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu or Venezuelan ruler Nicolás Maduro. He also criticized countries with “double standards” on the issue.

  • Saturday, September 21st 2024 - 10:08 UTC

    Paraguay exports US$ 665 million worth of beef to Chile

    Chile accounts for 50% of Paraguay's beef exports

    During a gathering this week at Chile's Embassy in Asunción to celebrate the 214th anniversary of the country's independence, Ambassador Manuel Francisco Gormaz Lira highlighted that Paraguay was Chile's fifth-largest trading partner in the region and the tenth-largest in the world. Yearly trade between the two countries amounted to US$ 1.8 billion.

  • Thursday, September 19th 2024 - 08:07 UTC

    Falklands join local Chilean community in celebrating independence Day

    HRH The Princess Royal meeting with members of our Chilean community in 2022

    The Falkland Islands have decades of close links with Chile which not only refer to trade, connectivity, shipping, but are mainly because of the long-established Chilean community in the Islands. Currently almost two hundred strong they are the largest from mainland South America and have greatly contributed to the development of the Islands in different fields of expertise, both in Camp and Stanley. And many families in the Islands have Chilean born members or descendants.

  • Saturday, September 14th 2024 - 09:57 UTC

    Chilean Air Force still investigating last month's alleged intrusion

    “We must be very cautious and not draw hasty conclusions from what happened,” Montero stressed

    Chile's Deputy Defense Minister Ricardo Montero said Friday in an interview with Radio Bío Bío that his country's Air Force (FACh) was still investigating the Aug. 27 alleged intrusion of unidentified aircraft in an area near the Strait of Magellan which triggered an emergency response protocol.

  • Saturday, September 14th 2024 - 09:31 UTC

    Chile joins South Africa's ICJ case against Israel

    Chile should not remain indifferent in the face of what is going on in Gaza, Boric argued

    The Chilean Government of President Gabriel Boric Font announced Friday that the South American country had joined South Africa's filing before the International Court of Justice (ICJ) against Israel for its alleged breach of the Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide against the Palestinian community.

  • Thursday, September 12th 2024 - 10:50 UTC

    Pinochet's coup remembered in Chile after 51 years

    “We still have more than 1,100 compatriots who we do not know where they are,” argued Boric

    Chilean authorities Wednesday paid tribute to the victims of the dictatorship of General Augusto Pinochet Ugarte which started on Sept. 11, 1973, after the military uprising resulted in the death of President Salvador Allende and the overthrowing of the democratically-elected government 51 years ago, when a regime that would last until 1990 seized power.