Chile

• Tuesday, May 25th 2021 - 09:03 UTC

  Chile and Bolivia go back to negotiating table in Ecuador

  

  The Governments of Chile and Bolivia and Chile held a new round of talks in Ecuador to advance in the normalization of their bilateral relations, it was reported Monday.

• Wednesday, May 19th 2021 - 09:30 UTC

  Magallanes has its first democratically elected governor in 178 years

  

  Next 14th July the southernmost region of Chile, Magallanes and (Chilean) Antarctica, will inaugurate its first democratically elected governor in 178 years. This is the result of the sweeping reforms the Chilean electorate voted on Sunday, particularly for members of a constitutional assembly which will have the task of drafting a new constitution to replace the one inherited from dictator General Augusto Pinochet from 1980.

• Tuesday, May 18th 2021 - 09:08 UTC

  Bolivian Minister lashes out at Chilean senator for comments regarding railroad test

  

  Bolivia's Minister of Public Works, Édgar Montaño, Monday rated Chilean senator José Miguel Insulza's comments urging to resume the test of the La Paz-Arica railroad as “irresponsible.”

• Monday, May 17th 2021 - 16:26 UTC

  Communist candidate to become new mayor of Santiago de Chile

  

  The Stock Exchange in Chile's capital took a nosedive after it was confirmed that the Communist candidate Irací Hassler had secured a surprising victory over Santiago's incumbent mayor Felipe Alessandri, among other defeats suffered over the weekend by traditional politics to a more radical leftwing generation.

• Monday, May 17th 2021 - 09:55 UTC

  Chileans vote against traditional politicians and demand substantial reforms

  

  None of Chile's traditional political parties has managed to win at least one-third of the seats at stake in this past weekend's elections to appoint a new Constituent Assembly which will have to write up a new constitution to replace the one from 1980 which was inherited from Augusto Pinochet's military dictatorship

• 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.