Tag: Gabriel Boric

• Wednesday, May 18th 2022 - 21:37 UTC

  Chile back to state of exception in southern provinces

  

  Despite its reluctance to resort to the same constitutional mechanisms adopted by the Sebastián Piñera administration, the Chilean Government of leftwing President Gabriel Boric Font Wednesday announced a state of exception to address violence in the indigenous southern zones.

• Tuesday, May 17th 2022 - 09:46 UTC

  Security becomes a concern for Chile's gov't

  

  Chile's Minister of the General Secretariat of the Presidency, Giorgio Jackson, Monday admitted the Government was reviewing security measures to be taken in the future following a robbery at the home of Defense Minister Maya Fernández and a shooting against one of President Gabriel Boric Font's bodyguards.

• Monday, May 16th 2022 - 18:10 UTC

  Bolsonaro insists Argentina and Chile might end up like Cuba

  

  Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro Sunday insisted on social media that he feared Argentina and Chile were following the paths of Venezuela and Cuba because although Fidel Castro and Hugo Chávez were already dead, the “consequences of communism” remained.

• Thursday, May 12th 2022 - 19:32 UTC

  CAM calls for Mapuche armed resistance in southern Chile

  

  Despite the head of state's pro-Native People's rights stance, a Mapuche group in southern Chile Wednesday likened current President Gabriel Boric Font to his rightwing predecessor Sebastián Piñera and called for armed resistance in the face of a possible military deployment.

• Thursday, May 12th 2022 - 10:08 UTC

  Chile's Lower House passes Escazú treaty bill

  

  Chile's President Gabriel Boric Font Wednesday praised his country's Lower House for approving the Escazú 'green' treaty, which he said was “a milestone” in the path towards a new relationship “between the State and its inhabitants in environmental matters.”

• Monday, May 9th 2022 - 10:55 UTC

  Chilean president will address the Falklands issue with Boris Johnson in Egypt

  

  Chilean president Gabriel Boric will be talking about the Falklands and South Sandwich Islands sovereignty claims with Prime Minister Boris Johnson and Argentine president Alberto Fernandez during the next COP27 scheduled for November.

• Wednesday, May 4th 2022 - 09:58 UTC

  Chilean president rejects a chronic dole claimers system; mentions the Argentine example

  

  Chilean president Gabriel Boric did not have kind words for Argentina's social relief policy when explaining how his administration was going to address support policies in the post-pandemic period and current global war situation, propping the economy and creating jobs.

• Friday, April 29th 2022 - 23:06 UTC

  Uruguayan President was invited by Boris Johnson and will travel to the UK

  

  The President of Uruguay, Luis Lacalle Pou, was invited by the government of the United Kingdom to meet with the Prime Minister of that country, Boris Johnson. He will travel to that country at the end of May or the beginning of June, as reported by Montevideo Portal and later confirmed by sources from the president's office.

• Thursday, April 28th 2022 - 10:01 UTC

  Johnson thanks Chile for supporting UK access to the Trans Pacific trade partnership

  

  British Prime Minister Boris Johnson spoke this week to the Chilean President Gabriel Boric and both leaders reaffirmed trade relations and the long standing defense relationship.

• Tuesday, April 26th 2022 - 09:45 UTC

  Chilean president pledges food subsidies for vulnerable families; inflation the highest in three decades

  

  Chilean president Gabriel Boric said his government was preparing a mechanism to help vulnerable families pay for their basic food basket, which is to be financed with subsidies.