Tag: Chile

• Saturday, March 12th 2022 - 06:36 UTC

  Chilean president Boric makes strong call for unity and anticipates his four years “won't be easy”

  

  Chilean president Gabriel Boric on Friday evening stepped out to the balcony of Government House (La Moneda) to address the thousands of people cheering him in the ample plaza. It was his first speech as president to the people, and he made a strong call to unity, acknowledging that his job in the coming four years “would not be easy”.

• Saturday, February 19th 2022 - 09:59 UTC

  Chile is to become a “regional, multinational and intercultural State”, according to the new constitution

  

  Chile is to be defined in the future as a “Regional State, multinational and intercultural” according to the draft approved on Friday afternoon by the constitutional convention that is discussing the new constitution for the country.

• Tuesday, January 4th 2022 - 06:54 UTC

  The Battle for Boric's Soul

  

  By Jorge Castañeda - Chile has long been something of a bellwether in Latin America. So, when Chilean voters elected the left-wing Gabriel Boric, a 35-year-old former student leader, as president on Sunday, the rest of Latin America wanted to know: What does this mean for Chile – and for us?

• Friday, December 31st 2021 - 18:34 UTC

  Biden congratulates Chilean president elect and both leaders agree on an agenda of issues to discuss

  

  United States president Joe Biden on Thursday contacted Chilean president-elect Gabriel Boric to congratulate him on his electoral victory on 21 December and to talk about future collaboration and cooperation between the two countries.

• Tuesday, December 7th 2021 - 18:49 UTC

  Chile's Parliament okays same-sex marriage

  

  Chile's Congress Tuesday passed the bill making it the eighth Latin American country where same-sex marriage is legal, after Argentina, Brazil, Colombia, Uruguay, Ecuador, Costa Rica, and in several states of Mexico.

• Monday, September 27th 2021 - 13:55 UTC

  Chile starts vaccinating kids aged 6-11 at schools

  

  Mass vaccination against COVID-19 of over 1.5 million Chilean schoolchildren aged 6 to 11 has kicked off Monday, it was reported. Chilean authorities have also confirmed Sinovac's drug CoronaVac is to be administered but only to those children who have parental consent.

• Tuesday, September 14th 2021 - 13:55 UTC

  Vaccination of children aged 6 to 12 starts in Chile with Coronavac

  

  Chile's health authorities have started vaccinating children aged between 6 and 12 against COVID-19 with the Chinese Coronavac drug to keep up the country's high immunization rate, which is among the most prolific worldwide.

• Sunday, September 5th 2021 - 06:46 UTC

  LATAM must reimburse boarding fees to travelers who did not fly

  

  LATAM will have to reimburse boarding fees to all those consumers who purchased air tickets and for different reasons were unable to travel. The decision is a Collective Voluntary Procedure from the Chilean National Consumer Service, Sernac and is estimated to benefit some 400,000 consumers involving some 600 million dollars.

• Monday, August 9th 2021 - 10:13 UTC

  Chile in mourning for two days over those who died from COVID-19

  

  Chile's President Sebastián Piñera decreed two days of national mourning Monday and Tuesday (August 9 and 10) in memory of all those who passed away due to the COVID-19 pandemic.

• Thursday, July 29th 2021 - 07:39 UTC

  Chilean agriculture short of manpower: some crops could remain without harvesting

  

  Chile's National Agriculture Society, SNA, has warned that up to 30% of crops could remain without harvesting because of a lack of manpower. SNA head Cristian Allendes participated in a conference on the labor problem and incentives to attract people to work in the fields, which was presented under the title of “How is the 2020/21 season coming along?”.