Tag: Chile

• Saturday, December 18th 2010 - 00:22 UTC

  Chilean Senators warn about ‘social impact’ of cheap US dollar for farm areas

  

  Senators representing agricultural parts of Chile strongly criticized the Central Bank and President Sebastian Piñera this week for turning a deaf ear to the “social, cultural and economic problems” created by the falling value of the US dollar, now hovering at 470 pesos to the dollar.

• Friday, December 17th 2010 - 18:41 UTC

  New guide documents marine life amazing diversity in Chilean Patagonia

  

  After more than 10 years of research, Chile’s San Ignacio de Huinay Foundation has published a guide chronicling the amazing diversity of marine life in Chile’s Patagonia, with photographs of 473 marine life species

• Friday, December 17th 2010 - 07:09 UTC

  Chile could be next country to recognize Palestine with borders prior to 1967

  

  The decisions by the governments of Brazil and Argentina last week to recognize an independent Palestinian state with borders prior to the 1967 Six Day War has prompted criticism from the United States and intense lobbying in Santiago de Chile.

• Thursday, December 16th 2010 - 17:24 UTC

  Chilean farmers predict agriculture upturn for 2011

  

  The National Agriculture Society (SNA) this week predicted 2 to 4% growth in 2011 for Chile’s agriculture-based industries, compared to this current year’s dismal 1.9% growth.

• Friday, December 10th 2010 - 18:20 UTC

  Chile begins construction of 1 MW solar energy plant to supply copper mine

  

  Last December 2, a ceremonial first stone was laid to mark the start of construction of a photovoltaic solar plant near the northern Chilean city of Calama.

• Thursday, December 9th 2010 - 07:24 UTC

  Uruguay, Mexico and Chile have the most numerous middle-class in Latam

  

  According to the 2011 Latin American Economic Outlook report released on Dec. 3 by the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD), Chile has the third highest percentage of middle-class citizens in Latin America.

• Thursday, December 9th 2010 - 07:20 UTC

  Fire in an overcrowded Santiago de Chile jail, kills at least 83 inmates

  

  Fire engulfed a prison in the Chilean capital Santiago Wednesday early in the morning, killing 83 inmates and critically injuring 14 others, the government said, in the worst-ever accident in the country's jail system.

• Tuesday, December 7th 2010 - 08:16 UTC

  Chile outlines conditions for a possible Bolivian access to the Pacific

  

  Chile is willing to cooperate with a sea-outlet for landlocked Bolivia but will not cede sovereignty because “we will never accept something that divides the country in two”, said the Chilean Foreign Affairs minister Alfredo Moreno.

• Wednesday, December 1st 2010 - 22:24 UTC

  Public opinion perception of corruption in Chile remains high

  

  Just over 30% of Chileans consider state corruption in Chile to be extensive; but this is down 23% from 2006.

• Saturday, November 20th 2010 - 03:10 UTC

  Chile launches Antarctic season with 52 scientific research projects

  

  Chile will undertake its most ambitious scientific expedition in almost half a century of Antarctic activities with 52 projects planned for the 2010/2011 season. The activities program was announced by Javier Arata head of the Chilean Antarctic Institute Antarctic Science Program.