Tag: Gabriel Boric

• Tuesday, July 5th 2022 - 09:55 UTC

  Boric given draft of new Chilean Constitution

  

  Chilean President Gabriel Boric Font Monday received the draft of the new Constitution after one year of work by the Assembly. The document is now to be put up for approval through a referendum in September.

• Saturday, July 2nd 2022 - 10:09 UTC

  Chile's gov't aims to tax the wealthiest and the mining companies

  

  The administration of Chilean President Gabriel Boric Font Friday moved on with its initiative to introduce a revolutionary tax reform, which targets the wealthiest 3% of the population and the large copper mining companies.

• Tuesday, June 28th 2022 - 21:13 UTC

  Most Chileans oppose new Constitution

  

  According to a survey released in Santiago Monday, 51% of Chileans would not support the new Constitution draft which seeks to replace the one from the Military Dictatorship era of General Augusto Pinochet.

• Saturday, June 4th 2022 - 01:16 UTC

  Boric banned from reelection even if new Chilean Constitution is approved

  

  Chile's Constituent Assembly Thursday overwhelmingly approved a provision to ban incumbent President Gabriel Boric Font from running for reelection in 2026 should the new Fundamental Law be approved in September's referendum.

• 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.