Chile

• Saturday, October 2nd 2021 - 09:17 UTC

  Punta Arenas will have its International Antarctic Center following financing of the project

  

  Punta Arenas, as the capital of the Chilean Magallanes Region and Chilean Antarctica, will finally have its International Antarctic Center making the city the logistic hub and gate of access to Western Antarctica, following on the regional council's decision to support and finance the 88 million dollars project as part of the development program for Extreme Zones.

• Friday, October 1st 2021 - 17:50 UTC

  Chile lifts curfew; quarantine only for travelers and other specific situations

  

  Chilean authorities have lifted the curfew imposed over a year and a half ago as a part of the sanitary measures against the COVID-19 pandemic effective Oct. 1, it was announced.

• Friday, October 1st 2021 - 09:53 UTC

  Irregular migration and drug trafficking alongside Bolivia-Chile border keeps drawing concern

  

  While Chile's presidential delegate at Tarapacá, Miguel Ángel Quezada, accused Bolivia on Thursday of “not making any effort” to prevent the crossing of irregular migrants through the common border, authorities from both countries have formed four working groups to coordinate the fight against drug trafficking.

• Thursday, September 30th 2021 - 20:57 UTC

  LATAM obtains financing to reorganize the group and begin exiting bankruptcy

  

  On Wednesday, LATAM airlines announced it had obtained committed financing of US$ 750 million as part of the Chapter 11 proceedings, allowing the company to improve its financing conditions and to start exiting the bankruptcy process

• Thursday, September 30th 2021 - 09:46 UTC

  Paraguay and Chile closer to bilateral FTA after Piñera visit

  

  Chilean President Sebastián Piñera's visit to Asunción has left his country closer to a free trade agreement with Paraguay, it was announced.

• Tuesday, September 28th 2021 - 09:35 UTC

  Visiting president Piñera and Lacalle Pou address health and post pandemic issues

  

  Trade, health and the post-pandemic, communications and the Pacific basin were some of the issues addressed by Chilean president Sebastian Piñera with his Uruguayan peer, Luis Lacalle Pou, during a one-day visit to Montevideo.

• Monday, September 27th 2021 - 13:55 UTC

  Chile starts vaccinating kids aged 6-11 at schools

  

  Mass vaccination against COVID-19 of over 1.5 million Chilean schoolchildren aged 6 to 11 has kicked off Monday, it was reported. Chilean authorities have also confirmed Sinovac's drug CoronaVac is to be administered but only to those children who have parental consent.

• Monday, September 27th 2021 - 09:39 UTC

  International community concerned over xenophobia in Chile

  

  The United Nations Children's Fund (Unicef) Saturday asked the Chilean Government to guarantee and protect the rights of migrant children, following violent incidents involving foreign citizens in the city port Iquique, which has been flocked by undocumented migrants.

• Monday, September 27th 2021 - 09:13 UTC

  Piñera arrives in Uruguay, the second leg of a three South American countries tour

  

  Chilean president Sebastián Piñera with a delegation of two ministers and members of congress will be arriving Monday morning in Montevideo for a meeting with president Luis Lacalle Pou, the second leg of a three countries tour of South America.

• Monday, September 27th 2021 - 08:22 UTC

  Fonterra divesting from Chile after thirty years operations

  

  New Zealand's dairy group Fonterra, one of the largest in the world has announced it is leaving Chile after thirty years and has put on sale its Chilean branch Soprole of which it controls 99% of the stock.