Tag: Gabriel Boric

• 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.

• Wednesday, March 9th 2022 - 09:42 UTC

  Allende's niece and a Latin woman member of Biden's cabinet will attend the inauguration of Boric in Chile

  

  Renowned Chilean Latin-American writer Isabel Allende will be part of the United States government delegation to the taking office of Chilean elected president Gabriel Boric, on Friday 11 March, according to a release from the White House.

• Tuesday, March 8th 2022 - 09:50 UTC

  Chilean Deputies pass State of Exception for southern provinces

  

  Chile's Lower House Monday passed 73 votes in favor, 41 against, and five abstentions the renewal of the State of Exception in four southern provinces in the Bíobio and La Araucanía regions. The measure still has to be approved by the Senate.

• Tuesday, March 1st 2022 - 09:45 UTC

  Chilean president-elect again condemns Russian invasion of Ukraine

  

  Chilean President-elect Gabriel Boric has again strongly condemned the Russian invasion of Ukraine and called on public opinion to watch and listen closely to the nine minutes message of Ukrainian president Volodimir Zelenski to the Russian people.

• Monday, February 21st 2022 - 10:01 UTC

  Chilean fishermen want “Ministry of the Sea” created

  

  Non-industrial fishermen in the Chilean city of Osorno have requested President-elect Gabriel Boric to create a Ministry of the Sea and insisted on the need to change the Fisheries Law so as to eliminate trawling.

• Friday, January 21st 2022 - 20:35 UTC

  Most of Chile's future ministers will be women, Boric announces

  

  Chile's President-elect, Gabriel Boric, Friday chose former Central Bank President Mario Marcel as the country's future Finance Minister of Finance, and former mendica College Head for Minister of the Interior as he announced his cabinet, which shall be made up of mostly women. Boric will take office on March 11.

• Wednesday, January 19th 2022 - 09:12 UTC

  Chile's future First Lady to add a feminist twist to the job

  

  Chile's President-elect Gabriel Boric, 35, has been involved with 32-year-old Social scientist Irina Karamanos since 2019. She has now decided that although not married, she will take on her new role as First Lady and “reformulate” it with a feminist vision, it was reported Tuesday.

• Tuesday, January 18th 2022 - 20:30 UTC

  South American countries might form “lithium OPEC”

  

  Developers in Argentina, Bolivia, Chile, and possibly Peru are evaluating the idea of creating an association of lithium-producing countries that will function like the mineral's OPEN for the region.

• Wednesday, January 12th 2022 - 20:36 UTC

  Boric picks human rights expert with LSE credentials for Cabinet Chief role

  

  Chile's President-elect Gabriel Boric has announced he chose human rights expert Matías Meza-Lopehandía Glaesser as his next Cabinet Chief when he takes office on March 11.

• Wednesday, January 12th 2022 - 09:33 UTC

  Gabriel Boric officially proclaimed Chilean president elect; takes office March 11

  

  On Monday the Chilean Elections Qualifying Tribunal, Tricel, officially proclaimed Gabriel Boric as president-elect of Chile, following his victory in the runoff last 19 December. The ceremony was held at the Tricel offices in Santiago but under the most strict security and sanitary measures given the surge in Covid 19 cases.