Chile

• Monday, February 27th 2023 - 08:05 UTC

  Chile reinforces military presence near Peru, Bolivia border

  

  The Chilean Government of President Gabriel Boric Font has upped the South American country's military strength in areas bordering Peru and Bolivia such as Arica, Parinacota, Tarapacá, and Antofagasta in a move to tackle illegal immigration, it was reported.

• Saturday, February 25th 2023 - 09:27 UTC

  Stateless Nicaraguan writers accept new South American nationalities

  

  Writers Sergio Ramírez and Gioconda Belli, who were stripped of their Nicaraguan citizenship by the Daniel Ortega regime which declared them “traitors to the homeland,” have made up their minds on which nationalities to accept from the multiple offers from various Latin American countries who jumped in not to leave them stateless.

• Friday, February 24th 2023 - 10:49 UTC

  Chile's Cochamó Valley awarded sanctuary status

  

  Chilean authorities have turned Patagonia’s Cochamó Valley into the South American country's new 42-square-mile sanctuary to protect rivers and wetlands in addition to 6,500 hectares (about 25 square miles) of mature forest and more than 1,800 hectares (about 7 square miles) of thousand-year-old larches which have been labeled as endangered by the International Union for Conservation of Nature.

• Wednesday, February 22nd 2023 - 10:54 UTC

  Chilean, Argentine nationalities available to Nicaraguan stateless expatriates

  

  The Governments of Chile and Argentina are among those who would grant citizenship to the Nicaraguan expatriates who were expelled from their country earlier this month and stripped of their nationality on treason charges, it was reported Tuesday.

• Saturday, February 18th 2023 - 10:55 UTC

  Silence among Latin American powers: Chile, the only that openly condemn Daniel Ortega's latest offensive

  

  Of the five main powers in Latin America, all of which are governed by the left, the executive of Gabriel Boric in Chile has openly expressed its repudiation of what has happened in Nicaragua after President Daniel Ortega stripped 94 opposition members of their Nicaraguan nationality and banished 222 political prisoners to the United States, declaring them stateless.

• Tuesday, February 14th 2023 - 10:58 UTC

  Falklands flagged “RRS Sir David Attenborough” in Chile irks the nerves of Argentine senators

  

  Two Argentine opposition Senators have requested the Foreign affairs and Defense Ministries to report on the ”unrestricted movements of the UK RRS Sir David Attenborough, flying the 'illegal flag of the Falklands', and sailing between Port Stanley (Puerto Argentino) and Punta Arena (Chile), and the implicit and vital logistic support provided to the vessel by the government of Chile.”

• Tuesday, February 14th 2023 - 10:05 UTC

  Chilean Central Bank, “still too early to consider cuts to borrowing costs”

  

  Chile’s annual inflation eased to 12,3% in January, but consumer prices rose well above forecast in the first month of 2023 January as the costs of food and beverages jumped, strengthening the central bank’s argument that it’s still too early to consider cuts to borrowing costs.

• Monday, February 13th 2023 - 21:22 UTC

  Pablo Neruda: Chilean poet was “poisoned”, says his family

  

  International experts will reveal on Wednesday that the bacteria found in the remains of Chilean Nobel laureate Pablo Neruda “was in his body at the time of death,” which would prove that he was “poisoned” 12 days after the 1973 military coup, his family told EFE in an exclusive interview.

• Monday, February 13th 2023 - 10:06 UTC

  Chile: Poll shows Boric's popularity slightly improving from worse to just bad

  

  The Government of Chile failed to make timely decisions to fight the forest fires that broke out in the southern and central parts of the country, according to 68% of respondents to a survey by pollsters Cadem released on Sunday, which also showed the popularity of President Gabriel Boric Font slightly improving.

• Thursday, February 9th 2023 - 10:55 UTC

  Evacuations ordered in Chile as wildfires run amok

  

  Chile's National Service for Disaster Prevention and Response (Senapred) Wednesday ordered the evacuation of 14 communes in the regions of Ñuble, Biobío, and La Araucanía, including Nacimiento, Purén, and Contulmo, which have all been particularly affected by the forest fires.