Chile

• Monday, February 7th 2022 - 09:20 UTC

  Chile's FM resigns with new Spanish job in mind

  

  The Chilean Government Sunday announced the resignation of Foreign Minister Andrés Allamand had been accepted and that Undersecretary of Foreign Affairs Carolina Valdivia Torres would become acting minister effective immediately.

• Friday, February 4th 2022 - 09:33 UTC

  China reportedly reaches deal with Bachelet on release on human rights report

  

  While the Winter Olympic Games are set to commence Friday in Beijing, the Government of China has reportedly reached an unwritten understanding with the Office of the United Nation's High Commissioner for Human Rights to postpone the release of a document detailing the findings regarding abuses against the Uyghur Muslim minority in the northwest region of Xinjiang.

• Thursday, February 3rd 2022 - 21:16 UTC

  Chile: Puerto Montt lender priest defrocked for canonical offenses

  

  The Catholic Church has stripped Tulio Soto Manquemilla off his priesthood after an inquiry showed he had committed a number of actions held as offenses according to Canonic Law, it was announced Thursday.

• Tuesday, February 1st 2022 - 09:54 UTC

  Latin America’s strong recovery is losing momentum, underscoring reform needs

  

  By Ilan Goldfain, Anna Ivanova and Jorge Roldos (*) – Governments will need to combine fighting inflation with structural policies that reignite growth.

• Monday, January 31st 2022 - 21:55 UTC

  Unemployment in Chile almost back at 2019 levels

  

  Chilean authorities have reported Monday that unemployment nationwide had fallen in 2021 to 7.2% while in the same period of 2020 it had hit 10.3%. In the middle of the social uprisings of 2019 it had been recorded at 7.1%.

• Monday, January 31st 2022 - 09:50 UTC

  Diplomatic solution found to crisis of truckers crossing into Chile

  

  Argentine and Chilean authorities have reached a solution to the crisis affecting some 3,000 lorry drivers crossing the Andes through the Cristo Redentor-Libertadores route, it was announced.

• Monday, January 31st 2022 - 09:47 UTC

  Chileans in Iquique stage xenophobic protest against Venezuelan migrants

  

  Xenophobic violence is on the rise in the Chilean area of Iquique and it is specifically targeted at Venezuelan migrants. Iquique is where most undocumented migrants reach from Bolivia.

• Friday, January 28th 2022 - 11:50 UTC

  Chile raises reference rate to 5,5% to combat inflation: More could come

  

  The Chilean central bank hiked its reference rate from 4% to 5,5% to contain inflation which last year reached 7,2%, the highest in fourteen years. The Monetary Policy council of the bank on Wednesday agreed unanimously to increase the reference rate by 150 base points, according to the official release.

• Wednesday, January 26th 2022 - 14:28 UTC

  Uruguay and Chile, the least corrupt “in a corrupt continent”

  

  Corruption in Latin America is one of the most notorious problems on the region's agenda after a decade of major judicial operations that exposed corruption schemes involving governments and companies alike. According to Transparency International (TI), corruption has been entrenched in Latin America for more than a decade with little progress and many setbacks in terms of democracy and human rights.

• Tuesday, January 25th 2022 - 09:40 UTC

  Ambassador says Jones-Huala may serve out his sentence in Argentina

  

  Argentina's Ambassador to Chile Rafael Bielsa Monday said the newly-paroled Mapuche leader Facundo Jones-Huala “could serve the rest of his sentence in Argentina.”