Chile

• Monday, January 3rd 2022 - 09:56 UTC

  Strong recovery of employment in most of Chile

  

  Unemployment in Chile is down to 7,5%, the lowest since January 2020, according to the country's stats office INAE. The 7,5% figure is the seventh consecutive mobile quarter, (September-November), which has seen a systematic reduction in unemployment plus a simultaneous standing recovery of lost jobs, some 74,6% of the two million wiped out by the coronavirus pandemic.

• Friday, December 31st 2021 - 18:34 UTC

  Biden congratulates Chilean president elect and both leaders agree on an agenda of issues to discuss

  

  United States president Joe Biden on Thursday contacted Chilean president-elect Gabriel Boric to congratulate him on his electoral victory on 21 December and to talk about future collaboration and cooperation between the two countries.

• Wednesday, December 29th 2021 - 09:57 UTC

  Former Deputy Health Minister to handle Chile's sanitary transition

  

  The Chilean Government of President Sebastián Piñera Tuesday announced the return to active duty of former Deputy Health Minister Paula Daza, who will now be in charge of handling the transition to the new administration of President-elect Gabriel Boric from a sanitary point of view focused mainly on COVID-19.

• Tuesday, December 28th 2021 - 09:46 UTC

  Boric will not travel to Colombia with Piñera: priority is “organizing my administration's team”

  

  Chilean president-elect Gabriel Boris announced he contacted president Sebastián Piñera to thank him for the invitation to attend the January 26/27 Prosur and Pacific Alliance summits in Colombia, --the current head of government last overseas trip--, but will not join him.

• Monday, December 27th 2021 - 09:18 UTC

  Chilean zoo vaccinates animals against COVID-19

  

  In addition to having staged one of the most prolific anti-COVID-19 vaccination campaigns on humans, Chile now intends to expand that achievement onto other living beings after three lions, three tigers, three pumas, and an orangutan have been injected at Santiago's Buin Zoo.

• Friday, December 24th 2021 - 09:46 UTC

  Armed Mapuches in Southern Chile burn 31 cabins, forestry machinery and open fire on a hydrant aircraft

  

  The indigenous Mapuche tribe violent groups in southern Chile, involved in arson and destruction attacks, have warned that as long as forestry and construction companies keep ”devastating our resources, and the jails of southern Chile continue full of Mapuche patriots incarcerated, weichan (armed resistance) will not cease to be it under (president) Piñera or (elected president) Boric”.

• Friday, December 24th 2021 - 09:16 UTC

  Chile to start applying fourth dose of COVID-19 vax in 2022

  

  Chilean health authorities Thursday announced a fourth dose of COVID-19 vaccine is to be administered to people over 60 years old, while a survey has shown an overwhelming support for mandatory vaccination at workplaces.

• Thursday, December 23rd 2021 - 09:24 UTC

  Falklands waiting for Argentine response on the request for a compassionate charter flight to Chile

  

  The Falkland Islands Government Head of Communications has confirmed that “we are still waiting for a response from the Government of Argentina,” on the matter of the Falklands Islands request for a compassionate charter flight to Chile, “so no further information since the request was made eleven days ago.”

• Thursday, December 23rd 2021 - 09:05 UTC

  IAPA wants press freedom guaranteed in Chile's new Constitution

  

  The Inter-American Press Association (IAPA) Wednesday asked Chile's Constitutional Convention to “guarantee the broadest access to public information and to prohibit Congress from enacting laws that restrict freedom of the press” in the new text being drafted.

• Tuesday, December 21st 2021 - 20:50 UTC

  Bolivian lorry drivers stranded in the middle of the Andes with Covid-19 and snow

  

  Scores of Bolivian lorry drivers and their vehicles were reported Monday to be stranded on the Chilean border at Tambo Quemado after at least 200 of them tested positive for COVID-19. They claim they had departed with negative PCR tests from 72 hours before the beginning of their journeys. The border crossing now is closed and snow is falling.