Chile

• Wednesday, August 17th 2022 - 09:42 UTC

  Chile Day in London next December 12/13. Finance minister attending

  

  Chilean Finance minister Mario Marcel will be attending the eleventh edition of the Chile Day in London scheduled to take place next December with the purpose of strengthening economic and financial relations between the two countries in a raft of disciplines. The two-day event is expected to take place 12/13 December.

• Tuesday, August 16th 2022 - 21:01 UTC

  Chile's proposed Constitution unlikely to prevail

  

  Three weeks ahead of Chile's Constitutional Plebiscite, the nays (Rejection)are still ahead, according to a survey by the consulting firm Cadem, which showed 46% of the voters would rather keep the Constitution drafted under Dictator Augusto Pinochet in 1980 instead of adopting the one penned by the Constitutional Assembly convened last year.

• Monday, August 15th 2022 - 08:47 UTC

  Partners want to sever all Cartes partnerships

  

  Chilean business associates of disgraced former Paraguayan President Horacio Cartés would be pushing to break up all commercial ties with the man declared as “significantly corrupt” by the US State Department last month.

• Thursday, August 11th 2022 - 08:23 UTC

  Chile and UK discuss green energy cooperation and delivery of ex-RAF Sentry aircraft

  

  Chilean foreign minister Antonia Urrejola received the British Ambassador in Santiago, Louise de Sousa to address several issues of the bilateral agenda, particularly referred to green energies.

• Wednesday, August 10th 2022 - 14:38 UTC

  Chilean congress has two years to rewrite a new Fisheries bill

  

  The Chilean Lower House approved a bill repealing the “Fisheries Law”, better known as the “Longueira Law” since he was the great sponsor and defender of the legislation when he was the Economy minister. The repeal initiative received 117 votes, no nays, and twenty abstentions. The bill now begins to be discussed in the Chilean Senate.

• Wednesday, August 10th 2022 - 09:42 UTC

  Salmon farming industry fights back in Magallanes despite president Boric's intended policy

  

  “Salmon farming industries must move out of protected areas” was the controversial phrase from Chilean president Gabriel Boric during his latest visit to Magallanes region, the extreme south of the country.

• Wednesday, August 10th 2022 - 09:32 UTC

  Mapuche groups claim responsibility for yet another attack in Chile

  

  Mapuche violence is reaching unprecedented levels after the Arauco-Malleco Coordinating Committee (CAM) claimed responsibility Tuesday for an arson attack against a forestry site in the commune of Lumaco, in the Araucanía region, 700 kilometers south of Santiago.

• Tuesday, August 9th 2022 - 09:10 UTC

  Boric and Petro discuss region's leaning to the left

  

  Chile's President Gabriel Boric Font Monday became the first foreign leader welcomed for a one-on-one meeting by Colombia's new head of state Gustavo Petro.

• Tuesday, August 9th 2022 - 08:53 UTC

  Chilean exports boosted by non-copper items

  

  Chile's Undersecretariat for International Economic Relations (Subrei) Monday announced that, according to Central Bank data, the country's exports grew 10.2% year-on-year between January and July 2022.

• Tuesday, August 9th 2022 - 08:13 UTC

  Political turmoil making Uruguay investment alternative option for Chilean business people

  

  Uruguay is becoming a growing option for Chilean business people and investors given the political climate and favorable economic scenario of the Mercosur member, while conditions in the Pacific nation are rapidly deteriorating under political stress and adverse conditions for business, according to Santiago economic media.