Chile

• 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.

• Monday, October 12th 2020 - 09:20 UTC

  Rioting and protests continue in Chile against government and police brutality

  

  Chileans took to the streets of the capital, Santiago, for a third consecutive weekend, demonstrating against the government, inequality, and police brutality as a postponed referendum on constitutional changes nears.

• Monday, October 12th 2020 - 09:15 UTC

  Chile keeping close monitoring of large fleet of Chinese fishing vessels

  

  The Chilean government is keeping close tabs on a large fleet of Chinese fishing vessels that has stirred up controversy further north along the Pacific coast of South America, Foreign Minister Andres Allamand said.

• Friday, October 9th 2020 - 09:51 UTC

  Chilean scientists research possible mutation of coronavirus in Magallanes, a region closely linked to the Falklands

  

  Scientists in Chile are investigating a possible mutation of the novel coronavirus in southern Patagonia, a far-flung region near the tip of the South American continent that has seen an unusually contagious second wave of infections in recent weeks.

• Friday, October 9th 2020 - 09:36 UTC

  Chile's foreign trade improving as September exports pick up

  

  Chile's overseas trade reached almost US$ 93,5 billion, between January and September this year, an 11% drop year on year, the president Sebastián Piñera government announced on Thursday.