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Montevideo, September 19th 2024 - 01:53 UTC

Tag: Gabriel Boric Font

  • Wednesday, August 7th 2024 - 22:09 UTC

    Boric angry as Santiago power cuts reach 6th day

    “We are talking about a regulated monopoly,” Boric stressed

    Chilean President Gabriel Boric Font Wednesday instructed the Energy Ministry to review the agreement whereby the company Enel has been awarded the right to provide the Santiago Metropolitan Region with electricity after the outage affecting some 60,000 households reached its sixth consecutive day.

  • Sunday, April 28th 2024 - 13:37 UTC

    Chile in mourning after murder of 3 Carabineros officers

    Boric decreed three days of national mourning and pledged to capture those responsible

    Three non-commissioned officers of Chile's Carabineros Police were killed early Saturday in an ambush in the town of Cañete, near the city of Concepción, in the Bío Bío region some 500 kilometers south of Santiago. The crime, which is still under investigation, shocked the entire country. President Gabriel Boric Font promised it would not go unpunished and other officials even called for the reinstatement of the death penalty.