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Montevideo, July 21st 2025 - 05:15 UTC

Chile

  • Thursday, January 30th 2025 - 08:26 UTC

    Lula and Boric discuss regional integration

    Progressive leaders in the region such as Lula and Boric are deepening their bonds amid Donald Trump's backlash after four years of Democratic rule

    Leftwing Presidents Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva of Brazil and Gabriel Boric Font of Chile Wednesday discussed regional integration during a telephone conversation amid Donald Trump's return to the White House and his spree of deporting illegal migrants.

  • Wednesday, January 29th 2025 - 09:56 UTC

    Chile's Central Bank keeps benchmark interest rate at 5%

    In July 2023, the Central Bank's Board made the first cut in the TPM, after stagnating it at 11.25% in December 2022

    Chile's Central Bank Council unanimously voted Tuesday in favor of keeping the monetary policy interest rate (TPM) at 5% for the second month in a row amid high volatility in global financial markets after the recent change of government in the United States. Tuesday's decision halted a downward trend that had been going on for months.

  • Monday, January 20th 2025 - 05:38 UTC

    Royal Navy paid tribute to its Chilean counterpart bravery and expertise

    Baroness Chapman, “in UK we’ve all heard of Ernest Shackleton, but not enough people know about what Luis Pardo did. He’s a real hero. Many others would never have been so brave.”

    The Royal Navy paid homage to the bravery and expertise of its Chilean counterpart during a ceremony in Punta Arenas. The commander of the ship which rescued sailors from Ernest Shackleton’s Endurance has been recognized by the UK during icebreaker HMS Protector’s port stop in Chile.

  • Thursday, January 16th 2025 - 14:10 UTC

    Baroness Chapman in Santiago and Punta Arenas strengthens links with Chile and partnership in Antarctica

    Baroness Chapman of Darlington with Admiral Jorge Castillo, Commander Mark Vartan, Ambassador de Sousa and military attaché Captain Liz Hutchson

    Economic growth, trade, climate, science and gender equality were high on the agenda in Santiago and Punta Arenas last week, as UK Minister for Latin America, Baroness Jenny Chapman visited Chile for the first time.

  • Thursday, January 16th 2025 - 10:03 UTC

    Pizza Hut bids farewell to Chilean operations branch

    The company managing Pizza Hut in Chile will focus on its European business

    Despite its iconic background worldwide, Pizza Hut will no longer be operating in Chile, Food Delivery Brands, the company handling it as well as Telepizza, announced Wednesday in Santiago. The group insisted it had made “all possible efforts” to keep the business afloat.

  • Wednesday, January 15th 2025 - 21:09 UTC

    Chile's ENAP announces diesel production from used cooking oil

    Although environmentally friendly, ENAP's diesel remains more expensive to produce than regular diesel fuel

    Chile's state-run oil company ENAP (Empresa Nacional del Petróleo) announced Wednesday that the South American country has proven able to produce renewable diesel out of used cooking oil. “A new step towards a greener Chile! ENAP presents its new renewable diesel, made from used cooking oil,” a statement read.

  • Monday, January 13th 2025 - 08:44 UTC

    Chile: Starwatching endangered by industrial project

    The Paranal Observatory is arguably South America's main such facility given the geographical conditions surrounding it which may be spoilt by the electricity company's plan

    The clarity of Chilean skies in the Atacama Desert may be in jeopardy given a project entertained by the electricity company AES Andes which could significantly affect the operations of the Paranal Observatory.

  • Wednesday, January 8th 2025 - 10:00 UTC

    Former Chilean guerrilla set free by Bolivian authorities

    Muñoz Hoffman was convicted in Chile for the murder of Senator Jaime Guzmán, among other crimes

    Former Chilean guerrilla Pablo Muñoz Hoffman of the Manuel Rodriguez Patriotic Front (FPMR), who was captured in Bolivia on Monday after 29 years at large, was set free on Tuesday instead of being extradited to his country as previously announced. He had escaped from prison in 1996 in a movie-style flight after which he vanished into thin air until this week.

  • Tuesday, January 7th 2025 - 09:45 UTC

    Fugitive Chilean guerrilla captured in Bolivia

    Muñoz Hoffman was the last fugitive of the four guerrillas who staged the legendary “Flight of Justice” in 1996

    Former Chilean guerrilla fighter Pablo Muñoz Hoffman was arrested Monday in La Paz, Bolivia, after 29 years at large following a movie-style jailbreak using a helicopter. Together with Mauricio Hernández Norambuena, Ricardo Palma Salamanca, and Patricio Ortiz Montenegro, all members of the now-defunct Manuel Rodríguez Patriotic Front (FPMR), they staged the so-called “Flight of Justice.”

  • Saturday, January 4th 2025 - 10:47 UTC

    Boric reaches South Pole

    “From here everything is north,” Boric said

    Chile's President Gabriel Boric Font Friday became the first Latin American leader and the third worldwide to reach the South Pole, thus consolidating his country's commitment to Antarctica. His feat followed in the footsteps of those authorities from New Zealand in 2007 and Norway in 2011. Boric dubbed his trip “a diplomatic, scientific, environmental and aeronautical milestone.” It also Chile as “the gateway to Antarctica,” he said.