Chile

• Monday, May 2nd 2022 - 09:15 UTC

  Chilean Gov't finally agrees to reopen land borders after 2 years

  

  Chilean authorities Sunday reopened 22 land border crossings with Argentina, Bolivia, and Peru, The passages had been reshaped since March 17, 2020, so that only cargo was let through but no travelers, amid restrictive sanitary measures to avoid the spread of COVID-19 into the country.

• Friday, April 29th 2022 - 23:06 UTC

  Uruguayan President was invited by Boris Johnson and will travel to the UK

  

  The President of Uruguay, Luis Lacalle Pou, was invited by the government of the United Kingdom to meet with the Prime Minister of that country, Boris Johnson. He will travel to that country at the end of May or the beginning of June, as reported by Montevideo Portal and later confirmed by sources from the president's office.

• Thursday, April 28th 2022 - 10:01 UTC

  Johnson thanks Chile for supporting UK access to the Trans Pacific trade partnership

  

  British Prime Minister Boris Johnson spoke this week to the Chilean President Gabriel Boric and both leaders reaffirmed trade relations and the long standing defense relationship.

• Thursday, April 28th 2022 - 09:30 UTC

  Chile's domestic built icebreaker is 59% completed, Navy reports

  

  Chile's first domestic built icebreaker, as part of the “Antarctica Project I”, will enable the country's navy to fulfill multiple logistic tasks, research operations, supply Antarctic bases and stations, having the capacity to sail in one-meter thick ice.

• Tuesday, April 26th 2022 - 09:45 UTC

  Chilean president pledges food subsidies for vulnerable families; inflation the highest in three decades

  

  Chilean president Gabriel Boric said his government was preparing a mechanism to help vulnerable families pay for their basic food basket, which is to be financed with subsidies.

• Monday, April 25th 2022 - 09:30 UTC

  China's Zero-COVID policy hits Chilean fruit exports

  

  Sanitary measures by Chinese health authorities to curb the spread of COVID-19, which include port closures, are taking a toll on Chile's fruit exports, it was reported Sunday.

• Monday, April 25th 2022 - 09:23 UTC

  Efficiency of peat ecosystems helping contain climate change, underlined by Chile at the Venice Biennal

  

  Peat and peat bogs are the most efficient ecosystem to fix and accumulate atmosphere carbon but are one of the least researched, according to the Chilean pavilion which opened last week at the Venice Biennal.

• Saturday, April 23rd 2022 - 10:40 UTC

  Chile: Rebel groups strike again in Araucanía

  

  Mapuche rebels in southern Chile shot a lorry driver along Route 5 Friday morning in La Araucanía and later burned down his vehicle. The trucker was rushed to a hospital nearby in serious condition.

• Wednesday, April 20th 2022 - 09:29 UTC

  Boric hopes relations with Bolivia will improve after Silala lawsuit

  

  Chilean President Gabriel Boric Font Tuesday said he hoped his country's relations with Bolivia will improve once the trial over the use of the waters of the Silala river before the International Court of Justice (ICJ) ends.

• Monday, April 18th 2022 - 08:52 UTC

  Over half of Chileans disapprove of President Boric's administration

  

  Chilean President Gabriel Boric Font's disapproval ratings have grown around 10%, reaching 51%, in about a month, according to a survey by consultants Pulso Ciudadano released Sunday.