Tag: Chile Crisis

• Saturday, December 7th 2019 - 09:46 UTC

  Lower electricity and transport fares help to keep inflation almost unchanged in turbulent Chile

  

  Chilean consumer prices barely budged amid unrest in November, the government said on Friday, with inflationary pressure from a downward spiraling peso offset by one-time cuts in electricity rates and public transportation fares.

• Thursday, November 28th 2019 - 09:55 UTC

  Congress urges Piñera to use the “constitutional tools” to quell the violence. Chilean Peso plummets to new low

  

  Chilean lawmakers agreed late on Wednesday to fast-track reforms to beef up security, warning that a resurgence in violence and vandalism was threatening to derail the country’s 30-year-old democracy.

• Saturday, November 23rd 2019 - 09:51 UTC

  The Economist and Chile: the painful birth of a different country

  

  In 2014, Michelle Bachelet a Socialist swept into Chile’s presidency for a second time on a program of radical reform of tax, education and pensions. She also aspired to enact a new constitution that would guarantee “more balance between the state, the private sector and society”, as she told your columnist over tea at the Moneda presidential palace. She argued that her “struggle against inequality” was the last chance to deal with discontents that, if neglected, could push Chile towards populism.

• Tuesday, November 19th 2019 - 05:31 UTC

  Walmart had 120 supermarkets burnt and looted in Chile; seeks court order for police protection

  

  Walmart has sought court orders for police protection in protest-wracked Chile after more than 120 of its supermarkets were looted or burned. The Chilean subsidiary of the US-headquartered retailer lodged orders with courts in six Chilean cities, saying the attacks on its stores had put its staff's safety and jobs at risk, “gravely” affected its ability to operate in the country and caused it “enormous economic damage.”

• 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.

• Thursday, September 13th 2018 - 10:17 UTC

  Piñera recalls that in September 1973 Chilean democracy was weakened and sick

  

  The president of Chile, Sebastián Piñera, has said that at the time of the overthrow of the Salvador Allende government in 1973, Chilean democracy was sick and that the crisis of the country was unsustainable.