Tag: Gabriel Boric

• Wednesday, March 23rd 2022 - 20:17 UTC

  Restoring diplomatic ties with Chile hinges on maritime issue, Bolivian gov't says

  

  Bolivian President Luis Arce Catacora Wednesday urged the new Chilean Government to discuss the maritime dispute between the two countries, on which the future of ties necessarily hinges.

• Tuesday, March 22nd 2022 - 22:02 UTC

  Chilean gov't to push for pardons regarding Oct. 2019 protests

  

  After its first week in office with acceptable ratings of approval, the Chilean government of President Gabriel Boric Font is eager to speed the passing of an amnesty bill to favor those who were arrested during the Oct. 2019 protests, it was reported in Santiago.

• Saturday, March 19th 2022 - 10:10 UTC

  Chile: Boric signs environmental agreement Piñera had discarded

  

  Chile's President Gabriel Boric Font Friday signed the so-called Escazú environmental agreement, which his predecessor Sebastián Piñera discarded at the last minute after having sponsored it. “We have changed course,” Boric said.

• Wednesday, March 16th 2022 - 21:18 UTC

  Interior Minister's motorcade greeted with gunshots by Mapuche group in Chile

  

  Chile's new Interior Minister Izkia Siches escaped unharmed after her motorcade in La Araucanía was halted and gunshots were fired into the air in Temucuicui, some 670 kilometers south of Santiago.

• Monday, March 14th 2022 - 20:19 UTC

  Boric would like Chile to resume full ties with Bolivia

  

  Chile's President Gabriel Boric Font Monday urged his Bolivian counterpart Luis Arce Catacora to resume diplomatic ties, which were severed in the 1970s.

• Saturday, March 12th 2022 - 10:43 UTC

  Boric sworn in as Chile's youngest-ever President: “Violation of Human Rights will never happen again”

  

  Quoting Salvador Allende and with a message for Latin American leaders to work together, Gabriel Boric Font addressed the people in his first speech as head of state from the iconic balcony of the Palacio de la Moneda in Santiago, Chile. At age 36, Boric was sworn in Friday as Chile's youngest ever President during e ceremony many regarded as the beginning of a new era.

• Saturday, March 12th 2022 - 06:36 UTC

  Chilean president Boric makes strong call for unity and anticipates his four years “won't be easy”

  

  Chilean president Gabriel Boric on Friday evening stepped out to the balcony of Government House (La Moneda) to address the thousands of people cheering him in the ample plaza. It was his first speech as president to the people, and he made a strong call to unity, acknowledging that his job in the coming four years “would not be easy”.

• Friday, March 11th 2022 - 09:55 UTC

  Jeremy Corbyn and Dilma Rousseff, special guests to Chilean president Boric inauguration Friday

  

  The office of Chilean president-elect Gabriel Boric, who this Friday takes office as the successor of Sebastian Piñera, released the names of a list of special guests to the inauguration ceremony which includes well-known political leaders and social activists.

• Thursday, March 10th 2022 - 23:55 UTC

  With approval ratings below Pinochet's, Piñera welcomes foreign dignitaries

  

  Chile's outgoing and incoming Presidents Sebastián Piñera and Gabriel Boric Thursday had a large series of engagements with foreign dignitaries who are in the country to attend Friday's inauguration.

• Thursday, March 10th 2022 - 16:38 UTC

  Uruguayan president will fly to Chile to thank Piñera and assist Boric's presidential inauguration

  

  The President of Uruguay, Luis Lacalle Pou, will travel on Thursday night to Chile, where on Friday will take place the ceremony of change of command and the inauguration of Gabriel Boric as the new president of the Andean country.