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Montevideo, December 21st 2024 - 11:54 UTC

Tag: Gabriel Boric

  • Wednesday, November 27th 2024 - 09:51 UTC

    Sexual scandal now involves Chile's President himself

    Boric claims he was the victim of a woman of legal age who said she loved him

    A case of alleged sexual assault dating back some 10 years has resurfaced against Chilean President Gabriel Boric Font just when the uproar from the scandal involving former Undersecretary of the Interior Manuel Monsalve was waning down with the official in pre-trial detention

  • Monday, November 18th 2024 - 09:59 UTC

    China's Xi Jinping all for deeper relations with Chile

    Beijing and Santiago will celebrate 55 years of diplomatic ties next year

    Chinese President Xi Jinping told his Chilean counterpart Gabriel Boric Font in Lima on the sidelines of the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) Economic Leaders' Meeting in the Peruvian capital that he hoped to expand cooperation between both countries with free trade and open industrial policies. The Asian leader also highlighted that Chile was the first South American country to establish diplomatic relations with the People's Republic of China.

  • Saturday, November 16th 2024 - 10:35 UTC

    Boluarte and Boric hold meeting during APEC

    Boric and Boluarte met at a time when Chile and Peru celebrated 202 years of bilateral ties

    Presidents Dina Boluarte Zegarra of Peru and Gabriel Boric Font of Chile held a meeting Friday in Lima in the context of the Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) leaders' meeting to celebrate the 202nd anniversary of diplomatic ties between the two countries, and discuss the support to vulnerable populations, SMEs, as well as bilateral trade and other common challenges.

  • Monday, November 11th 2024 - 10:11 UTC

    Cadem survey shows 42% of Chileans would like a President like Bukele

    Bukele has an 81% positive image in the South American nation

    According to the Cadem Plaza Pública survey released this weekend in Santiago de Chile, 42% of the citizenry would like their next president to resemble El Salvador's Nayib Bukele, who has an 81% positive image in the South American nation.

  • Monday, November 4th 2024 - 10:07 UTC

    Chile: 76% disapprove of La Moneda's management of Monsalve case

    Not many respondents believed Boric should have demanded Monsalve's resignation first thing

    The latest poll published by Plaza Pública Cadem this weekend showed that 76% of respondents during the fifth week of October disapproved of President Gabriel Boric Font's handling of the Manuel Monsalve case while 44% believed the head of state himself was to blame. In addition, 32% considered that the official most affected by the scandal was Interior Minister Carolina Tohá.

  • Tuesday, October 29th 2024 - 10:24 UTC

    Maduro lashes out at Itamaraty and Boric

    Boric “believed that supporting the fascists of Venezuela against the Bolivarian Revolution was going to give him votes, on the contrary people do not support cowards,” Maduro argued

    Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro Monday accused Brazil's Foreign Ministry of being an agent at the service of the United States, which would explain his country not being admitted as an associate member of BRICS, unlike Cuba and Bolivia.

  • Wednesday, October 2nd 2024 - 08:38 UTC

    The woman who will lead Chile’s counter-revolution, according to The Economist

    Evelyn Matthei, currently mayor of a posh Santiago suburb comfortably leads opinion polls for November 2025 presidential election

    The graffiti are still visible. Walls shout: “Death to the police!” Bus shelters demand: “No more private pensions!” Yet the occasionally violent social upheaval that rocked Chile from 2019 to 2022 is past. And the radical left-wing movement it propelled to power is now unpopular, having discovered that governing is harder than protesting.

  • Wednesday, September 25th 2024 - 11:03 UTC

    Boric insists human rights are to be defended against anyone violating them

    Boric described Maduro's government in Venezuela as a dictatorship trying to steal the elections

    Chilean President Gabriel Boric Font said Tuesday during his participation at the United Nations General Assembly that leftwing countries needed to have a single stance on human rights violations, regardless of whether they were committed by Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu or Venezuelan ruler Nicolás Maduro. He also criticized countries with “double standards” on the issue.

  • Saturday, September 14th 2024 - 09:31 UTC

    Chile joins South Africa's ICJ case against Israel

    Chile should not remain indifferent in the face of what is going on in Gaza, Boric argued

    The Chilean Government of President Gabriel Boric Font announced Friday that the South American country had joined South Africa's filing before the International Court of Justice (ICJ) against Israel for its alleged breach of the Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide against the Palestinian community.

  • Thursday, September 12th 2024 - 10:50 UTC

    Pinochet's coup remembered in Chile after 51 years

    “We still have more than 1,100 compatriots who we do not know where they are,” argued Boric

    Chilean authorities Wednesday paid tribute to the victims of the dictatorship of General Augusto Pinochet Ugarte which started on Sept. 11, 1973, after the military uprising resulted in the death of President Salvador Allende and the overthrowing of the democratically-elected government 51 years ago, when a regime that would last until 1990 seized power.

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