Tag: Gabriel Boric

Thursday, June 2nd 2022 - 07:49 UTC
Chilean President wants full ban on gun ownership

Chilean President Gabriel Boric Font Wednesday gave his first TV speech, during which he announced a plan to ban gun ownership and tackle drug trafficking, among other relevant measures.
Tuesday, May 31st 2022 - 10:15 UTC
Boric's negative image keeps growing among Chileans

Chile's President Gabriel Boric Front is recording astonishing levels of disapproval less than three months after taking office, according to Cadem's latest weekly survey released Monday.
Monday, May 23rd 2022 - 22:39 UTC
Boric enacts minimum-wage increase bill for Chileans

Chile's President Gabriel Boric Font Monday signed into law a minimum wage hike so that “no one is left behind.”
Saturday, May 21st 2022 - 09:55 UTC
Chile's armed forces will respond if they have to, minister says

Chile's Interior Minister Izkia Siches has warned the armed forces would “respond” in case of an attack by radical Mapuche groups after the state of emergency has been reimposed in La Araucanía due to increasing violence.
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.