Pacific Alliance

• Friday, July 2nd 2021 - 09:20 UTC

  Chile's economy grows 18.1% thanks to pension withdrawals and state emergency funding

  

  Chile's Central Bank Thursday reported an 18.1% economic growth in May, which has brought it back to the pace of prepandemic levels.

• Monday, June 14th 2021 - 10:00 UTC

  Peru's electoral body to rule on Fujimori's appeal Monday

  

  One week after the presidential runoff, leftwing candidate Pedro Castillo edged conservative Keiko Fujimori by around 70,000 votes to become Peru's new President. But he cannot celebrate still until the National Electoral Jury (JNE) rule's on a petition to nullify some 200,000 votes from his opponent.

• Wednesday, April 21st 2021 - 06:32 UTC

  Colombia, South Korea strengthen bilateral relations during Seoul envoy trip to Bogota

  

  During his Bogota stop, South Korea's First Vice Foreign Minister Choi Jong-Kun expressed his country's concerns over Japan's intentions to release the contaminated water into the Pacific Ocean from the wrecked Fukushima nuclear plant, the Asian nation's Foreign Ministry announced Tuesday in a statement.

• Saturday, April 17th 2021 - 10:36 UTC

  Chile's judiciary imposes first ever jail sentence on politician found guilty of corruption

  

  Former conservative Senator Jaime Orpis has been bestowed Friday with the dubious honour of becoming Chile's first-ever politician to be handed down a jail sentence for his involvement in acts of corruption.

• Monday, April 12th 2021 - 10:40 UTC

  Chile has new immigration law after eight years in Congress

  

  Chile's President Sebastán Piñera Sunday signed into law the new migration law which spent eight years in Congress before being passed.

• Tuesday, March 23rd 2021 - 17:02 UTC

  Fresh lockdown for 13 million Chileans despite vaccine success

  

  The Chilean government has announced a new series of confinement measures for some 70% of the country’s population following a 36% hike in Covid cases over the last two weeks.

• Saturday, February 13th 2021 - 08:45 UTC

  Piñera and more than 1,5 million Chileans inoculated with the Sinovac vaccine

  

  Chile's President Sebastian Piñera received on Friday the first dose of the Sinovac vaccine against the virus caused by Covid-19. The president is eligible to receive the inoculation with the Chinese vaccine along with those Chileans and residents aged 71 and over.

• Thursday, February 11th 2021 - 09:06 UTC

  Magallanes Region salmon farmers agree on an Ethics Code, first in Chile

  

  An Ethics Code to guide Chilean fish farms was announced and apparently accepted by the industry, the Salmon Breeders of Magallanes Region Association said in a release.

• Tuesday, February 2nd 2021 - 09:10 UTC

  UK will formally apply to join the Trans Pacific Partnership

  

  The United Kingdom will formally apply to join one of the world’s largest free-trade areas, deepening trade ties with some of the fastest-growing markets in the world. International Trade Secretary Liz Truss will speak to ministers in Japan and New Zealand to request to join the Comprehensive and Progressive Trans-Pacific Partnership (CPTPP), with formal negotiations set to start this year.

• Wednesday, January 27th 2021 - 09:31 UTC

  Argentina and Chile “indissolubly twinned countries”, underlines president Fernandez

  

  Argentina and Chile are “indissolubly twinned countries”, said Argentine president Alberto Fernandez during the ceremony at the Palacio de la Moneda in Santiago where, next to his peer Sebastián Piñera, and members of their cabinets, they signed several accords and a joint declaration.