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Montevideo, October 28th 2025 - 04:25 UTC

Tag: Chile

  • Tuesday, December 3rd 2013 - 17:38 UTC

    Chilean presidential candidates working together against voters' apathy

    In the first round abstention had more support than Bachelet and Matthei together

    Voter turnout in Chile's extreme north and south fell far short of national average, and candidates will look further afield for votes in upcoming elections December 15. As Chile’s presidential candidates turn their heads to the country’s far-flung regions, a report by La Tercera demonstrates the particularly high rates of abstention in rural areas in both the extreme north and south.

  • Monday, December 2nd 2013 - 13:32 UTC

    Chile among leading exporters of 23 non-copper related products

    The country is also the world's main exporter of fresh grapes with 20.6% of the market

    Chile leads the world in copper production but the country must do more to diversify its export-driven economy, according to experts. Precisely to diversify several government and industry bodies have spent years promoting Chile’s major non-mining related export items, which consist largely of produce, wood products and aquaculture.

  • Thursday, November 28th 2013 - 20:51 UTC

    Poor ratings for Chile in health care and pensions' system, according to OECD

    In 2011, Chile spent 1,568 dollars per capita on health, while the OECD average was 3,322 dollars

    Two biannual reports revealed Chile as one of the countries with the worst pension statistics and the highest citizen out-of-pocket expenditure on health among Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) nations.

  • Thursday, November 28th 2013 - 11:28 UTC

    North west England trade mission scheduled to visit Chile, Argentina and Brazil

    The cities of Manchester and Liverpool are also represented in the delegation

    Attracted by Chile’s positive economic climate a trade mission for North West England will be arriving in Santiago on 2nd-3rd December. The delegation from one of the most dynamic areas of the UK economy has representatives from Covering Cheshire, Lancashire, Cumbria and the cities of Manchester and Liverpool.

  • Tuesday, November 26th 2013 - 20:55 UTC

    Chile turns left again

    Moderate and pragmatic left wing Bachelet is expected to win in the December runoff

    By R Viswanathan (*) The Leftist coalition candidate Michelle Bachelet won 47% of the votes in the presidential elections held on 17 November while her rightist rival Evelyn Matthei got just 25% votes.

  • Monday, November 25th 2013 - 19:33 UTC

    Fossils in south Chile reveal close interaction with once connected Antarctica

    In February, a team of 11 scientists discovered the largest collection of dinosaur bones discovered in Chile

    Three years of study in Patagonia have produced what researchers describe as most important paleontological findings in Chile in the last 10 years. The discovery of leaf and dinosaur fossils in South America has revealed the continent was connected to Antarctica 20 million years more recently than previously believed.

  • Wednesday, November 20th 2013 - 21:15 UTC

    Abstention won Chile's Sunday election, but it's also a vote: rejecting the political system

    Chilean voters depositing their ballots, but an even greater number did not attend

    Chileans went to the polls Sunday and chose to send Michelle Bachelet and Evelyn Matthei to a runoff election with 46.7% and 25% of the vote respectively, but abstention far outstripped them both — less than half the number of voters on the electoral roll cast a vote.

  • Monday, November 18th 2013 - 22:06 UTC

    Chilean leaders of the massive student protests elected to Congress

    Miss Vallejo the most emblematic face that rocked the government of President Piñera

    Vallejo's victory and those of independent candidates Giorgio Jackson and Gabriel Boric and fellow communist Karol Cariola, former comrade-in-arms in the student movement, who also gained seats in Chile's lower house on Sunday is significant for presidential front-runner Michelle Bachelet's bid to have her Nueva Mayoria coalition gain a stronger foothold in both houses of Congress.

  • Monday, November 18th 2013 - 17:51 UTC

    Two ladies in the runoff for Chile's presidency, but Pinochet's legacy is still around

    Michelle should be the winner, but does she have the negotiating capacity to have the pledged reforms approved

    Two ladies and daughters of Air Force generals (but from opposite sides) will be disputing the run off on 15 December when the next Chilean president will be elected. Given the fact that on last Sunday's first round Socialist Michelle Bachelet was only three points short of a majority, and over twenty points ahead of conservative Evelyn Matthei there should be no doubts about who will be inaugurated at La Moneda next March 2014.

  • Monday, November 18th 2013 - 06:00 UTC

    Chile election: Bachelet and Matthei go to second round

    Left-wing candidate Michelle Bachelet has won the first round of voting in Chile's presidential election.She took 47% of the votes, against 25% for her main rival, Evelyn Matthei, a former Labour minister in the centre-right government of Sebastian Pinera. A second round of voting will take place on 15 December.