Tag: Andres Chadwick

• Tuesday, October 29th 2019 - 09:07 UTC

  Piñera reshuffles a third of the cabinet, but protestors demand his resignation

  

  Chilean protesters clashed with security forces on Monday, several hours after embattled President Sebastian Piñera announced a cabinet reshuffle in his latest bid to end 10 days of street demonstrations.

• Tuesday, October 22nd 2019 - 09:57 UTC

  Piñera down tones language and invites opposition leaders to forge a new social contract: death toll of 12

  

  Chilean President Sebastian Piñera said on Monday evening he would meet opposition leaders to forge a “new social contract” to alleviate inequality as thousands of Chileans defied a military curfew in protest marches around the capital Santiago and several other main cities.

• Monday, October 21st 2019 - 09:55 UTC

  Violent clashes in “oasis” Chile: eight people dead and curfew extended to most cities

  

  Chile´s government extended a state of emergency to cities in its north and south after at least eight people died amid violent clashes and arson attacks over the weekend, the interior minister said on Sunday night.

• Saturday, January 5th 2019 - 10:02 UTC

  Bomb blast in downtown Santiago de Chile injures five people

  

  A blast at a bus stop that wounded five people in the centre of the Chilean capital on Friday was described as a “terrorist act” by the government. A Venezuelan couple was hospitalized with facial and leg injuries after handling a package containing the device at the bus stop on the busy Vicuna Mackenna Avenue, authorities said.

• Thursday, September 5th 2013 - 01:36 UTC

  ”The majority of ministers of Piñera’s government are all children of Pinochet”

  

  A prominent backer of the 1973 military coup against elected President Salvador Allende said that General Augusto Pinochet betrayed those who supported the putsch out of patriotic sentiments. Roberto Thieme, a founder of the nationalist Homeland and Freedom movement, known as PyL, spoke out a week before the 40th anniversary of Allende's bloody ouster in an interview with Radio Cooperativa.

• Friday, July 12th 2013 - 19:29 UTC

  Chilean national strike in demand for improved labor conditions and free education

  

  Protesters disrupted traffic in the Chilean capital and blocked access to mining operations Thursday as part of a national strike called by the country's main labor federation.

• Wednesday, May 29th 2013 - 20:37 UTC

  Copahue volcano eruption imminent

  

  After the Copahue volcano on the Neuquén provincial Andean border with Chile began spewing smoke due to an increase in seismic activity, a red alert was issued by Chilean authorities ordering the full evacuation of an estimated 3,000 people.

• Thursday, April 25th 2013 - 02:09 UTC

  Bolivia takes Chile to the International Court of Justice to reclaim sea outlet

  

  Landlocked Bolivia sued neighboring Chile on Wednesday in the Hague before the International Court of Justice as it pressed a longstanding claim to recover land lost in a 19th century war and thus regain access to the sea.<br />
  Chile quickly responded that the issue was not negotiable.

• Wednesday, January 23rd 2013 - 08:24 UTC

  Piñera prepared to grant constitutional recognition to Chile’s indigenous groups

  

  Chilean President Sebastian Piñera pledged to work with “maximum urgency” on a bill that would grant constitutional recognition to the country's indigenous groups. Piñera also announced the creation of an indigenous peoples' council that fully represents “their history, traditions, culture” and via which “they could raise their strong and clear voice about their future.”

• Wednesday, January 16th 2013 - 05:57 UTC

  Chilean government in contacts with Mapuches to find solution to the conflict

  

  The Chilean government started contacts in an attempt to ease tension and find solutions to the escalating conflict with the indigenous Mapuche in the southern province of La Araucania which has seen killings and properties torched.