Tag: Chilean Comunity

• Thursday, September 19th 2024 - 08:07 UTC

  Falklands join local Chilean community in celebrating independence Day

  

  The Falkland Islands have decades of close links with Chile which not only refer to trade, connectivity, shipping, but are mainly because of the long-established Chilean community in the Islands. Currently almost two hundred strong they are the largest from mainland South America and have greatly contributed to the development of the Islands in different fields of expertise, both in Camp and Stanley. And many families in the Islands have Chilean born members or descendants.

• Sunday, September 5th 2021 - 07:12 UTC

  More arson and terrorist attacks in Mapuche claimed territory, south of Chile

  

  Following on another arson attack in the Chilean region of La Araucanía, the land of the Mapuche indigenous communities, the presidential delegate Victor Manoli has called on Congress to speed legislation “to pursue and arrest the culprits of these terrorist actions”

• Thursday, February 9th 2012 - 23:55 UTC

  Chilean community in Falklands march in support of the air link with Santiago

  

  One hundred members of the Chilean population living in the Falkland Islands were joined by 50 to 60 Islanders in a show of unity against the possibility that the weekly Lan Chile flight between Santiago and the Falklands might be discontinued at the request of Argentine President Cristina Fernandez.