Chile

• Thursday, April 8th 2021 - 10:27 UTC

  Chile's Labor Minister Zaldívar resigns over pension reforms

  

  Chile's Labor Minister María José Zaldívar submitted her resignation Wednesday to President Sebastián Piñera, who accepted it and announced he would appoint Deputy Patricio Melero to succeed her.

• Tuesday, April 6th 2021 - 09:10 UTC

  Chile's Parliament passes economic relief bill

  

  Chile's Congress Monday passed a bill granting economic assistance to people in need and whose situation has worsened over the past few months due to the covid-19 crisis.

• Tuesday, April 6th 2021 - 08:30 UTC

  Chilean TV station changes hands between US owners

  

  Pending governmental approval, US giant ViacomCBS is expanding its Latin American investment scheme by buying over the Santiago-based Chilevisión TV station, which was announced Monday.

• Saturday, April 3rd 2021 - 08:55 UTC

  Over 25 million cases of Covid-19 reported in Latin America, Caribbean

  

  Latin America and the Caribbean have altogether exceeded 25 million covid-19 infections amid an unprecedented advance of the pandemic which has led to the most severe restrictive measure by some countries, it was reported Friday.

• Friday, April 2nd 2021 - 10:05 UTC

  Falklands warn of difficulties in medical evacuation to Chile and Uruguay

  

  The Falkland Islands Government has urged people in the islands to “take extra care” in undertaking high-risk activities due to the Covid-19 situation in Chile and Uruguay making it “extremely difficult” to arrange the medical evacuation from the Falklands.

• Friday, April 2nd 2021 - 09:51 UTC

  Chile closes borders, bans foreign travel and extends curfew in latest anti covid-19 maneuver

  

  The Chilean Government of President Sebastián Piñera Thursday decided to close its borders throughout April, ban all foreign travel and move forward the current curfew to 9 pm as the second covid-19 wave spreads faster than expected.

• Tuesday, March 30th 2021 - 09:00 UTC

  Significant post-Brexit Chile tour by Lord Mayor of London revealed

  

  The British government Tuesday revealed that William Russell, the Lord Mayor of The City of London, paid a virtual visit to Chile on 9 and 10 March to strengthen trade links with the South American country.

• Monday, March 29th 2021 - 09:29 UTC

  Piñera to seek postponement of April 10-11 elections in Chile

  

  Chilean President Sebastián Piñera Sunday announced he would put forward a bill to postpone the April 10-11 elections until May in view of the country's critical situation regarding Covid-19 infections and diseases.

• Saturday, March 27th 2021 - 10:23 UTC

  Presidents of Uruguay, Argentina clash during Mercosur online summit

  

  Argentine President Alberto Fernández told his Uruguayan counterpart Luis Lacalle Pou his country did not want to be “a burden on anyone” when the latter called for signs of “flexibilization” on the part of Mercosur to allow member states to seek unilateral foreign trade agreements elsewhere without the bloc's approval.

• Friday, March 26th 2021 - 10:48 UTC

  Argentina halts all flights to/from Brazil, Chile and Mexico

  

  Starting this coming Saturday, no passenger flights will be allowed into Argentina from covid-ridden Brazil, Chile and Mexico, in a move to curb the spread of the coronavirus pandemic, particularly the Amazon or P1 strain as well as the British variant which is also causing havoc in the country's health system.