Chile

Wednesday, November 3rd 2021 - 09:50 UTC
Chile's economy activity index in September increased 15,6% year to year

Chile's September Monthly Economic Activity Index, (IMACEC), jumped 15,6% compared to a year ago, above market expectations (13%), and 1,7% over the previous month, as reported by the Chilean central bank.
Wednesday, November 3rd 2021 - 09:28 UTC
Piñera requests Congress to extend the state of emergency in Mapuche regions

Chilean president Sebastian Piñera announced on Tuesday he sent Congress a bill requesting a further fifteen days extension of the state of emergency in four areas of the Biobío and Araucaria regions, where there have been violent breaches of law and order.
Wednesday, November 3rd 2021 - 09:23 UTC
Magallanes coronavirus contagion the highest in Chile; government orders return to restriction measures

Magallanes Region, extreme south of Chile and its capital Punta Arenas have been forced by the Chilean Public Health ministry to return to Phase Four of the so called Step by Step Program, given the sustained surge of coronavirus contagions both in the region and at a national level.
Wednesday, November 3rd 2021 - 09:20 UTC
“Le Commandant Charcot” reopens Antarctic cruise season from Punta Arenas

On Sunday Punta Arenas in the extreme south of Chile saw the departure of the first cruise vessel to Antarctica under strict sanitary and safety conditions. The first Antarctic cruise since the start of the pandemic was implemented by what local authorities denominate the sanitary “green bubble”.
Friday, October 29th 2021 - 23:51 UTC
Chile: Piñera says his impeachment is politically driven

Chile's President Sebastian Piñera Friday downplayed through his legal team a motion for his impeachment on the grounds that -in his view- it was all “an ostensible political-electoral maneuver” based on “manifestly false” facts which were revealed in the so-called Pandora Papers report.
Friday, October 29th 2021 - 09:49 UTC
Chile: 60% of people in favour of impeaching Piñera over Pandora Papers

An Ipsos survey released Thursday has shown that 60% of Chileans were in favour of launching the impeachment process against President Sebastián Piñera for the obscure deals for which his name ended up included in the so-called Pandora Papers investigations.
Wednesday, October 27th 2021 - 19:02 UTC
Low cost airline JetSmart to land in Montevideo next year

Chilean budget carrier JetSmart has announced it will start serving Uruguay as of January 18 with tickets available for as low as US $ 20. The airline plans to offer three weekly flights between the capital cities of Chile and Uruguay with Airbus 320 aircraft which have a capacity of 186 seats.
Wednesday, October 27th 2021 - 09:47 UTC
Chilean lawmakers present a bill making “stealthing” a crime

Following on the recent approval in California of a bill describing the removal of the condom during a consensual sexual relation as sexual abuse or even a crime, Chilean lawmakers have made a similar presentation before Congress.
Tuesday, October 26th 2021 - 09:56 UTC
Parts of Chile back under COVID-19 restrictions amid growing number of infections

Chile's capital Santiago and 14 other communes nearby communes are to return to phase 3 of the national Government's contingency plan, following 929 COVID-19 infections detected in the last 24 hours, out of a total of 1,677 nationwide, it was announced Monday.
Monday, October 25th 2021 - 08:39 UTC
Unprecedented consensus in Chile against newspaper article marking 75th anniversary of Göring's death

Chile's Jewish community, Germany's Embassy in Santiago and the entire country's political spectrum Sunday agreed to condemn an article carried by the large-circulation daily El Mercurio reviewing the life of convicted Nazi leader Hermann Göring.