Tag: Chile

• Thursday, June 21st 2012 - 06:08 UTC

  Bachelet calls for transitional measures to boost number of female lawmakers

  

  Chile should bring in “transitional measures” to boost the number of female lawmakers, said former President Michelle Bachelet, who heads the United Nations body charged with empowering women.

• Thursday, June 21st 2012 - 06:05 UTC

  Protesting Chilean students again take to the streets; minor clashes with Carabineros

  

  Dozens of Chilean high school students were detained in Santiago on Wednesday as a protest organized by the National Confederation of Secondary Students (CONES) turned ugly.

• Thursday, June 21st 2012 - 05:24 UTC

  Father of former president Bachelet was tortured to death by Pinochet dictatorship

  

  The father of former Chilean President Michelle Bachelet probably died as a result of torture after the 1973 military coup, a judge said in Santiago on Wednesday.

• Monday, June 18th 2012 - 00:56 UTC

  Chile’s ENAP recovers oil concession revoked when Argentina seized YPF from Repsol

  

  Chile's state-owned oil and gas company ENAP, Empresa Nacional del Petroleo, recovered the Southern Argentine concession revoked in March by Chubut province, when the dispute over YPF, ENAP said in a statement Friday.

• Saturday, June 16th 2012 - 05:57 UTC

  Chilean Lower House votes unanimously to end “copper law” that finances the military

  

  Chilean Defence Minister Andrés Allamand achieved this week a unanimous vote in the Chamber of Deputies for the proposal to change the funding system for the Armed Forces. The proposal, should it gain approval in the Senate, would put an end to the so-called “copper law,” which has been in effect since 1958.

• Saturday, June 16th 2012 - 05:55 UTC

  Chile’s leaves basic rate unchanged at 5%; annual inflation in May, 3.1%

  

  Chile’s central bank kept its benchmark interest rate unchanged at 5% for a fifth consecutive month as inflation in the world’s top copper producer eased and unemployment continued to decline.

• Monday, June 11th 2012 - 05:25 UTC

  The past haunts Chile: film praising Pinochet triggers violent clashes in Santiago

  

  Hundreds of protesters clashed violently with police in the Chilean capital as they demonstrated on Sunday against the screening of a new documentary honouring the late dictator Augusto Pinochet.

• Saturday, June 9th 2012 - 02:46 UTC

  Chile’s May inflation on target but government fears external risks

  

  Chile's consumer price index remained unchanged in May, the government statistics agency INE said on Friday, slowing its pace from April as lower food and transport prices offset higher electricity costs. Prices rose 0.1% in April, the INE said last month.

• Friday, June 8th 2012 - 20:30 UTC

  Pinochet remains a strongly divisive figure in Chilean public opinion

  

  Chilean Executive spokesperson Andrés Chadwick asserted the government’s impartiality toward Sunday’s screening of “Pinochet,” a documentary on Chile’s former dictator, amid calls from human rights organizations and local and national politicians for President Sebastian Piñera to intervene.

• Friday, June 8th 2012 - 20:05 UTC

  Chile plans to drill eight wells looking for oil and gas in Magallanes region

  

  Chilean government oil and gas corporation, ENAP, presented this week the environment impact assessment for a project to drill eight wells for the extraction of hydrocarbons in the extreme south region of Magallanes in the so-called “Sub-block Manantiales”.