Pacific Alliance

• Thursday, December 26th 2019 - 12:15 UTC

  Chile: Allegedly intentional fire in Valparaíso consumed around 245 houses at Christmas

  

  A voracious fire in the Chilean city of Valparaíso began on Tuesday and extended until after Christmas Eve on Wednesday, leaving about 245 homes destroyed, 2000 people without power and a dozen injured. The authorities believe that the fires in the tourist city were intentional.

• Tuesday, November 19th 2019 - 08:34 UTC

  Chile's GDP expands 3.3% in 3Q, but prospects for 4Q are discouraging

  

  Chile's gross domestic product grew 3.3 percent in the third quarter of 2019 compared with a year earlier, the central bank said on Monday. The market had predicted relatively strong growth during the July through September period, citing improving prospects for the country's all-important mining industry.

• Friday, November 15th 2019 - 09:50 UTC

  Tens half blind in Chile as riot police open fire with rubber bullets close range

  

  Running away as shots rang out, Carlos Vivanco turned to see where they were coming from. Then he felt his left eye closing and his face dripping with blood. The 18-year-old student had become one of the scores of people hit in the eyes, and in some cases blinded, by police rubber bullets in Chile's recent wave of anti-government protests.

• Thursday, November 14th 2019 - 08:48 UTC

  Chilean bishops appeal for calm and recall what happens when the breakdown of institutions

  

  In an appeal to the politicians and people of Chile, the Bishops’ Conference reminds them of what history teaches about the breakdown of institutions, urging all men and women of goodwill to put an end to the violence of every kind.

• Saturday, November 9th 2019 - 10:55 UTC

  Chilean popular discontent spills over to the country's elite

  

  Chile's long-untouchable elite is now bearing the brunt of popular anger spilling onto the country's streets, and analysts say the signals have been there for years. Resource-rich Chile has long been seen as a stable democracy with South America's highest per-capita income, but economic and political power has rested in the hands of the relative few

• Saturday, November 9th 2019 - 10:50 UTC

  Huge peaceful demonstration in Santiago, but radicals loot a church and university

  

  Around 75,000 people took to the streets in Santiago on Friday as part of ongoing anti-government protests in Chile. Local press reported the mostly peaceful demonstration as the second-largest since the protests broke out three weeks ago.

• Saturday, November 9th 2019 - 10:40 UTC

  “Street” doctors and nurses assist hundreds of injured in Santiago de Chile

  

  Someone hundred Chilean doctors and nurses hit the streets shortly after riots broke out in Chile weeks ago, diving into the fray amid clouds of tear gas and volleys of rubber bullets behind just simple white shields.

• Monday, October 28th 2019 - 09:45 UTC

  Piñera lifts state of emergency; new cabinet expected for this week

  

  Embattled Chilean President Sebastian Piñera announced on Sunday that a state of emergency that has lasted more than a week amid mass protests would be lifted at midnight.

• Tuesday, August 13th 2019 - 07:46 UTC

  Chile considering expansive fiscal policy to stimulate growth

  

  Chile plans to roll out a more expansive fiscal policy and additional measures to stimulate economic growth to counter impacts from the U.S.-China trade war, the finance minister said in a newspaper interview published on Sunday.

• Tuesday, July 9th 2019 - 09:43 UTC

  Pacific Alliance plans a new bond to cover hydro-meteorological events

  

  Mexico, Colombia, Chile and Peru plan to work with the World Bank to launch a new bond to cover losses in the event of extreme weather, Peru's finance minister said.