Tag: Gabriel Boric

• Friday, September 23rd 2022 - 19:13 UTC

  Chile's top general resigns over intel leak

  

  Chilean General Guillermo Paiva Hernández has resigned as head of the Joint Chiefs of Staff (EMCO) following the leaking of classified information to the press which went viral Thursday

• Friday, September 23rd 2022 - 10:14 UTC

  Leak from military brass shows Chile's concerns over current issues

  

  Chile's Defense Minister Maya Fernandez was summoned back to Santiago at the earliest time possible after classified documents involving the Joint Chiefs of Staff and the relationship between President Gabriel Boric Font and his Argentine colleague Alberto Fernández went public.

• Thursday, September 22nd 2022 - 10:05 UTC

  US Secretary of State to visit Chile in early October and meet with president Boric

  

  US Secretary of State Antony Blinken will be visiting Chile on 4/5 October as part of a tour of South American Pacific countries including Peru and Colombia, according to Chilean foreign ministry sources. The purpose is to continue working on the agenda addressed last June by presidents, Gabriel Boric and Joe Biden.

• Tuesday, September 20th 2022 - 18:22 UTC

  Chile will have a new Constitution soon, Boric tells UN General Assembly

  

  Chilean President Gabriel Boric Font Tuesday told the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) in New York that his country would have a new Constitution “shortly” after the Sept. 7 attempt to get a progressive text approved through a referendum failed to get past the vote of the citizenry.

• Friday, September 16th 2022 - 09:04 UTC

  Boric refuses to welcome Israel's new ambassador in Chile

  

  Chilean President Gabriel Boric Font refused to welcome Israeli Ambassador Gil Artzyeli at La Moneda Palace. The diplomat was supposed to deliver his credentials to the head of state, who reportedly cited the killing of a Palestinian teenager in the Middle East for his decision.

• Wednesday, September 7th 2022 - 10:25 UTC

  Boric reshuffles Cabinet to bounce back from rejection

  

  After Rejection prevailed in Sunday's referendum to approve a proposed new Constitution, Chile's President Gabriel Boric Font was forced to reshuffle his cabinet in a move to regain some credibility after less than 40% of voters supported him.

• Tuesday, September 6th 2022 - 09:49 UTC

  Boric announces adjustments will be made after Rejection prevailed

  

  Chilean President Gabriel Boric Font Monday announced a few “adjustments” will be made to his administration after voters chose to reject the progressive Constitution penned to replace the one from the Agusto Pinochet era.

• Monday, September 5th 2022 - 10:20 UTC

  Chile: New Constitution rejected

  

  Nearly 62% of Chilean voters chose to reject the Constitution drafted by an Assembly called on after the 2020 incidents that led to President Gabriel Boric Foont's election.

• Thursday, September 1st 2022 - 19:18 UTC

  Boric hopes LatAm would not tolerate a coup in Brazil if Bolsonaro loses

  

  Chilean President Gabriel Boric Font Thursday said he hoped Latin America would stage a “joint reaction” if a coup d'état takes place in next month's presidential elections in Brazil.

• Wednesday, August 31st 2022 - 09:37 UTC

  Chile: Mapuche protester arrested after demonstration in Araucania

  

  One person was arrested Tuesday in the Chilean region of La Araucanía after the radical Coordinadora Arauco Malleco (CAM) Mapuche indigenist movement staged a demonstration on Route 5 South demanding the release of their incarcerated comrades.