Chile

• Wednesday, November 4th 2020 - 08:36 UTC

  Chilean salmon farmers struggling to cut antibiotic usage to boost the reputation of its products

  

  For Chile’s salmon farming industry, less could be more. That is, less antibiotic use could improve the sustainability of the country’s salmon aquaculture industry and boost the reputation of its products.

• Tuesday, November 3rd 2020 - 08:50 UTC

  Chile's economy activity drops 5,3% in September year on year, but grows 5,1% from August

  

  Chile’s economic activity sank 5.3% in September year-on-year but grew 5.1% from the previous month, the central bank said on Monday, as the world’s no. 1 copper producer emerged from the worst period of the coronavirus pandemic.

• Saturday, October 31st 2020 - 09:00 UTC

  Mrs Louise de Sousa appointed UK Ambassador to Chile

  

  Mrs Louise de Sousa has been appointed Her Majesty’s Ambassador to Chile in succession to Mr Jamie Bowden CMG OBE MVO. Mrs de Sousa will take up her appointment in February 2021. She is married to Allan Rivail de Sousa and they have two children.

• Saturday, October 31st 2020 - 08:14 UTC

  Chile's Codelco, world's largest copper producer reports profits are back

  

  Chile's State-owned miner Codelco, the world's largest copper producer, on Friday reported a 86% increase in its profit for the first nine months of the year on Friday, to US$1,124 billion, amid an increase in production.

• Thursday, October 29th 2020 - 00:09 UTC

  Chile and Spain celebrating the 500ths anniversary of the Magellan Strait discovery in Punta Arenas

  

  Chile and Spain are celebrating the 500th-anniversary discovery of the Magellan Strait, on November first 1520, by the round of the world expedition of Fernando Magellan and his second in command Sebastián Elcano, who had left Spain on September 1519, with five ships and some 247 crew, and only returned three years later with one vessel and 18 men.

• Monday, October 26th 2020 - 09:56 UTC

  Chile overwhelmingly approved a constitutional reform with a specially elected assembly

  

  The referendum in Chile was held on Sunday with a resounding result in favor of reforming the constitution. After last year's social protests, it was decided to consult citizens if they wanted to begin the process of promulgating a new Chilean constitution, leaving the one approved during the time of Augusto Pinochet in 1980 without effect.

• Saturday, October 24th 2020 - 09:40 UTC

  A tale of two Chiles; referendum on constitutional reform

  

  By Jennifer M Piscopo and Peter Siavelis (*) – One year ago, Chileans took their anger over inequality and injustice to the streets, insisting that redressing the nation's deep structural problems would require more than reform. They said Chile would need a new constitution with more rights and better social protection.

• Saturday, October 24th 2020 - 08:42 UTC

  Chileans vote on Sunday to amend a constitution which has meant stability but also elitism and privilege

  

  Chileans will go to the polls on Sunday to vote on whether they want to swap a constitution written during the Pinochet dictatorship with a new document written by a specially elected citizens' body.

• Thursday, October 22nd 2020 - 09:00 UTC

  Chilean voting centers on Sunday will de disinfected with copper nanoparticles

  

  Chile, the world’s largest producer of copper, will use nanoparticles of the metal to disinfect voting centers ahead of this weekend’s referendum on changing the constitution, the government said Wednesday.

• Monday, October 19th 2020 - 09:51 UTC

  Chileans mark anniversary of mass protests with peaceful rallies in the morning and riots and looting at night

  

  Tens of thousands of Chileans gathered in the central square of Santiago, Plaza Italia, renamed Plaza Dignidad, to mark the one-year anniversary of mass protests that leftover 30 dead and thousands injured, with peaceful rallies on Sunday turning by nightfall into riots and looting.