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Montevideo, April 3rd 2025 - 23:55 UTC

Chile

  • Wednesday, September 25th 2024 - 11:03 UTC

    Boric insists human rights are to be defended against anyone violating them

    Boric described Maduro's government in Venezuela as a dictatorship trying to steal the elections

    Chilean President Gabriel Boric Font said Tuesday during his participation at the United Nations General Assembly that leftwing countries needed to have a single stance on human rights violations, regardless of whether they were committed by Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu or Venezuelan ruler Nicolás Maduro. He also criticized countries with “double standards” on the issue.

  • Saturday, September 21st 2024 - 10:08 UTC

    Paraguay exports US$ 665 million worth of beef to Chile

    Chile accounts for 50% of Paraguay's beef exports

    During a gathering this week at Chile's Embassy in Asunción to celebrate the 214th anniversary of the country's independence, Ambassador Manuel Francisco Gormaz Lira highlighted that Paraguay was Chile's fifth-largest trading partner in the region and the tenth-largest in the world. Yearly trade between the two countries amounted to US$ 1.8 billion.

  • Thursday, September 19th 2024 - 08:07 UTC

    Falklands join local Chilean community in celebrating independence Day

    HRH The Princess Royal meeting with members of our Chilean community in 2022

    The Falkland Islands have decades of close links with Chile which not only refer to trade, connectivity, shipping, but are mainly because of the long-established Chilean community in the Islands. Currently almost two hundred strong they are the largest from mainland South America and have greatly contributed to the development of the Islands in different fields of expertise, both in Camp and Stanley. And many families in the Islands have Chilean born members or descendants.

  • Saturday, September 14th 2024 - 09:57 UTC

    Chilean Air Force still investigating last month's alleged intrusion

    “We must be very cautious and not draw hasty conclusions from what happened,” Montero stressed

    Chile's Deputy Defense Minister Ricardo Montero said Friday in an interview with Radio Bío Bío that his country's Air Force (FACh) was still investigating the Aug. 27 alleged intrusion of unidentified aircraft in an area near the Strait of Magellan which triggered an emergency response protocol.

  • Saturday, September 14th 2024 - 09:31 UTC

    Chile joins South Africa's ICJ case against Israel

    Chile should not remain indifferent in the face of what is going on in Gaza, Boric argued

    The Chilean Government of President Gabriel Boric Font announced Friday that the South American country had joined South Africa's filing before the International Court of Justice (ICJ) against Israel for its alleged breach of the Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide against the Palestinian community.

  • Thursday, September 12th 2024 - 10:50 UTC

    Pinochet's coup remembered in Chile after 51 years

    “We still have more than 1,100 compatriots who we do not know where they are,” argued Boric

    Chilean authorities Wednesday paid tribute to the victims of the dictatorship of General Augusto Pinochet Ugarte which started on Sept. 11, 1973, after the military uprising resulted in the death of President Salvador Allende and the overthrowing of the democratically-elected government 51 years ago, when a regime that would last until 1990 seized power.

  • Wednesday, September 11th 2024 - 09:55 UTC

    Man sets himself ablaze in front of La Moneda Palace in Santiago

    The man was reported to have said that “a superior being” had ordered him to act that way

    A 35-year-old man set himself ablaze bonzo style in front of Chile's Presidential La Moneda Palace after being told to do so by “a superior being.” He was reported to have 65% of his body affected, with his chances of survival still uncertain.

  • Tuesday, September 10th 2024 - 07:40 UTC

    Punta Arenas and Ushuaia inaugurate cruise season 2024/25 next week

    Punta Arenas and Ushuaia are ready for the start of the cruise season which in Chile is scheduled for Saturday 14th September and in Argentina, 17th September. In both cases it is a regional cruise with the “Ventus Australis” along the Chilean straits and channels, but there is great optimism that it could in effect 2024/25 could be a record season.

  • Monday, September 9th 2024 - 21:18 UTC

    Chilean Supreme Court Justice Vivanco suspended for ties to corruption scandal

    The process for Vivanco's permanent removal is now underway

    Chile's Supreme Court Monday suspended Justice Ángela Vivanco from her bench after she was found to be linked to a corruption case. In the meantime, the process for her permanent dismissal has been triggered. Vivanco may not be the only magistrate to lose her job to the scandal.

  • Thursday, September 5th 2024 - 09:09 UTC

    Santiago de Chile to expand fleet of electric buses

    Santiago de Chile continues to position itself at the forefront of urban public transport mobility, said Minister Muñoz

    Chilean authorities are leading the region's transition towards environmentally friendly public transport networks by planning to replace some 214 diesel buses serving the Santiago Metropolitan area with electricity-powered ones in the short run, it was announced.