Chile

• Saturday, May 15th 2021 - 09:12 UTC

  Chile going to polls this weekend to elect Constitutional Convention to replace Pinochet-era text

  

  Chile is about to write another chapter in its history this coming weekend when members of an Assembly to write up a new constitution to replace the one left by the military regime of General Augusto Pinochet are elected.

• Friday, May 14th 2021 - 08:31 UTC

  Bolivia suspends train tests to Chile after truckers protests

  

  The tests to reactivate a cargo rail line that connects the Chilean port of Arica (north) with Viacha, Bolivia (southwest), will be suspended, Bolivian authorities announced this Thursday, after several days of roadblocks by truck drivers against the initiative.

• Tuesday, May 11th 2021 - 09:35 UTC

  Chile eases lockdown in Santiago as elections loom over

  

  Chile's capital city of Santiago will be freed from its total lockdown as of this coming Thursday, although confinement will still be observed on weekends, health authorities announced Monday.

• Friday, May 7th 2021 - 08:40 UTC

  LATAM Airlines goes environment conscious for the years to come

  

  LATAM Airlines Group has launched Wednesday in Santiago, Chile, an environmentally conscious plan for the coming years named LATAM Group Sustainability Strategy, to offset 50% of emissions from its domestic operations by 2030.

• Wednesday, May 5th 2021 - 06:42 UTC

  Chinese vaccine developer eyes production in Chile

  

  China's Sinovac Biotech laboratory is reportedly evaluating the possibility of manufacturing the immunizer in Chile in a joint effort with the local Pontifical Catholic University, Rector Ignacio Sánchez said in a newspaper interview published Tuesday.

• Tuesday, May 4th 2021 - 09:55 UTC

  Spanish Government pleads EU to speed up trade accords with Latin American partners to contain China's expansion

  

  Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez has petitioned the European Union to lift all barriers that prevent the bloc's trade agreement with Mercosur to become operational. Sánchez also requested similar action be taken in the cases of accords with Mexico and Chile.

• Tuesday, May 4th 2021 - 08:00 UTC

  Paraguay beef exports on the rise, mainly to Chile

  

  Paraguay's beef exports totalled over 111,000 tons in January, February, March and April of 2021 to set a new record for the sector, the National Service for Animal Quality and Health (Senacsa) announced Monday.

• Monday, May 3rd 2021 - 08:45 UTC

  Foreign tourism in Chile drops 92.6% in first quarter of 2021

  

  Foreign tourism in Chile registered a 92.6% drop year-to-year in the first quarter of 2021, according to a study published Sunday bu the journal Barómetro del Turismo (Tourism Barometer), released by the government's Tourism Undersecretariat and the National Tourism Service (Sernatur).

• Saturday, May 1st 2021 - 09:11 UTC

  Chilean unions march to pressure Piñera into taking actions in favor of the neediest

  

  Chile's leading labour unions Friday marched through the streets of Santiago in demand of financial aid and other types of assistance. But despite wearing facemasks and holding permits to circulate under lockdown they were halted at the gates of the La Moneda presidential palace when they tried to deliver a letter addressed at President Sebastián Piñera.

• Friday, April 30th 2021 - 09:43 UTC

  Chile: Case against Piñera brought before The Hague for alleged human rights violations in 2019

  

  Chilean and human rights organizations together with former Spanish judge Baltasar Garzón filed an accusation Thursday before the International Criminal Court (ICC) against President Sebastián Piñera for his alleged involvement in crimes against humanity during the 2019 protests, it was reported.