Senators from Chile’s coalition junior partner announced they support the approval of the Unasur, Union of South American Nations charter previous compliance with several ‘basic conditions’.
In the nineties most Argentine companies were purchased by companies with headquarters in New York or Madrid but in this decade they come from less glamorous countries: China, India, Brazil, Russia and unsuspected places such as Mexico, Peru and Colombia.
Chilean wood pulp producer Celulosa Arauco y Constitucion SA seeks to continue its regional expansion as it develops plans for a new pulp mill in Uruguay, Arauco's corporate director, Franco Bozzalla, said this week.
During the 34th convocation of the UNESCO World Heritage Foundation recently held in Brazil, members discussed the importance of reconstruction efforts in the Chilean coastal city of Valparaíso, a UNESCO World Heritage site, in the aftermath of February’s earthquake.
Chilean president Sebastian Piñera invited Ecuadorian President Rafael Correa to join him in a visit to Antarctica to continue diplomatic discussions concerning Chile’s ongoing maritime border dispute with Peru. The trip is expected to take place between Nov. 6 and Nov. 8.
Globally the US dollar has been sinking this year and the Chilean peso has fared particularly well against it.
Chilean president Sebastián Piñera will be travelling to the United States, Europe and Asia in the coming months with the purpose of boosting trade and investment, announced Wednesday Foreign Affairs minister Alfredo Moreno.
Businessman Tomas Müller has been nominated as the new Chilean ambassador in London. He will be replacing Rafael Moreno. The announcement was made this week by Chilean Foreign Affairs minister Alfredo Moreno and visiting Foreign office minister Jeremy Browne.
Venezuela’s Hugo Chavez said Colombia is “sovereign” and as such can sign a military agreement with the United States, an issue which at the time triggered a bilateral conflict and which he admitted having addressed with Colombian president Juan Manuel Santos during their meeting this week.
With 33 miners remain trapped in a mine near the city of Copiapó in Chile’s north the Chilean government is taking action to determine who is responsible for this tragedy and how similar events can be avoided in the future.