Tag: Chile

• Tuesday, January 18th 2011 - 17:52 UTC

  Controversial Body Scanner to be Used Shortly at Ezeiza and Santiago Airports

  

  The Body scanner will soon be used by the Airport Security Police (PSA) at Argentina’s main airport.

• Tuesday, January 18th 2011 - 16:59 UTC

  Impact of Rainfall in Brazil Is Worse Than That of Chilean Earthquake

  

  The torrential rainfall that Brazil has been experiencing for the past week has had an even bigger impact on the population than that of the earthquake Chile experienced in 2010, said a member of the military who had worked in Chile and now runs a makeshift hospital where victims of the worst natural disaster that Brazil has experienced are being treated.

• Tuesday, January 18th 2011 - 07:49 UTC

  U.N. Urges Chile to Halt Evictions of Indigenous Protesters

  

  Following months of protests and sit-ins surrounding ancestral land claims on Chile’s Easter Island, the United Nations has officially called on the Chilean government to help diffuse tensions.

• Tuesday, January 18th 2011 - 01:15 UTC

  Chile: “Zero readjustment” is not a viable option to resolve conflict due to gas price increase

  

  Energy and Mining Minister Laurence Golborne insisted on the last proposal made by the Chilean government to stop manifestations which would imply a 3% increase in hydrocarbon.

• Monday, January 17th 2011 - 05:51 UTC

  World Bank Projects Chile To Lead Latin American Growth In 2011

  

  The World Bank’s 2011 Global Economic Prospects (GEP) report predicts that Chile will be the fastest-growing economy in Latin America and the Caribbean, while the latter’s growth slows down.

• Saturday, January 15th 2011 - 17:33 UTC

  Strike easing in Magallanes, Chile

  

  THE announcement today by the organisers of the general strike in the Magallanes Region of Chile that there will be some “flexibility” in the road blocks currently in place outside the city of Punta Arenas will no doubt cause some easing of the pressure on the Chilean President to find a solution.

• Friday, January 14th 2011 - 02:27 UTC

  Chile's Defense Minister Resigns From Cabinet

  

  Chile's Defence Minister resigned, the government said, the first minister to leave the Cabinet since President Sebastian Piñera took power last year.

• Friday, January 7th 2011 - 21:10 UTC

  Chile recognized Palestine as an independent state

  

  Chile has recognized Palestine as an independent state, Foreign Minister Alfredo Moreno said Friday, following in the footsteps of several other Latin American countries.

• Thursday, January 6th 2011 - 22:06 UTC

  Chile: an Opus Dei convent or a country on the Liberal path?

  

  Under the heading of: “Chile, the convent of the Americas? A country between the Opus Dei and Liberalism” the German journalist Maurice Weibel analyzes Chilean politics, where the followers of Escriva de Balaguer have a dominating presence in politics and over the agenda to update values in a country on the move to join the developed world.

• Thursday, January 6th 2011 - 20:58 UTC

  Slow Start To Chile’s Tourism Season; fewer Argentines than expected

  

  With its vast array of natural attractions and top-class services, Chile is an attractive tourism destination for Latin Americans, as well as global visitors.