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Montevideo, October 29th 2025 - 02:28 UTC

Tag: Gabriel Boric

  • Monday, July 7th 2025 - 08:50 UTC

    Boric and Arce advocate for multilateralism and Global South empowerment

    Arce's Bolivia is an associate member of BRICS, while Boric participated as a guest

    Presidents Gabriel Boric Font of Chile and Bolivia's Luis Arce Catacora advocated for multilateralism, international law, and the strengthening of the Global South during their interventions at the BRICS 2025 summit in Rio de Janeiro.

  • Monday, June 30th 2025 - 08:22 UTC

    Communist Jara wins Chilean ruling party's presidential primaries

    Jara was Boric's labor minister between March 11, 2022, and April 7, 2025

    Communist activist and former Labor Minister Jeannette Jara won the Chilean ruling party’s presidential primary Sunday with 60.16% of the vote, defeating Carolina Tohá (27.78%) and lesser challenges from Gonzalo Winter and Jaime Mulet.

  • Thursday, June 26th 2025 - 10:19 UTC

    Chilean president becomes first-time father

    Boric started dating Carrasco after splitting with former First Lady Irina Karamanos

    Violeta Boric Carrasco, daughter of Chilean President Gabriel Boric Font and his partner, environmental chemist and former professional basketball player Paula Carrasco, was born Wednesday evening at the Clinical Hospital of the University of Chile in Santiago, making the child the first ever born to a sitting president Carlos Ibáñez del Campo’s offspring in 1928 and 1930. The birth was confirmed after 11 pm local time.

  • Monday, June 23rd 2025 - 10:24 UTC

    Chile's Boric also finds attack on Iran disrespectful of international law

    “We will defend respect for international humanitarian law in all instances,” Boric argued

    Chile's President Gabriel Boric Font expressed his utmost rejection to the United States' bombing of Iranian nuclear facilities (Fordow, Natanz, and Isfahan), which – he claimed – violated international law.

  • Thursday, June 5th 2025 - 10:35 UTC

    Israel's Ambassador to Chile says bilateral ties hit rock bottom

    When there are differences, “the idea is to talk, and that is not what is happening,” Artzyeli said

    Israel's ambassador to Chile, Gil Artzyeli, said that relations between the two governments have “reached rock bottom” due to a lack of dialogue over the past three and a half years, predating the events of October 7. The diplomat also mentioned a perceived hostility from Chile toward Israel, despite strong ties in various fields.

  • Monday, June 2nd 2025 - 10:08 UTC

    Boric condemns Israel's actions in Gaza

    Given Boric's stance against Israel, Chile faces possible retaliation measures from Washington

    In his annual address on June 1, 2025, at the National Congress in Valparaiso, Chilean President Gabriel Boric Font sharply criticized Israel, accusing its government of “genocide and ethnic cleansing” against Palestinians in Gaza. “It is these same principles that have led me to raise my voice loudly against the genocide and ethnic cleansing that the Israeli government is committing against the Palestinian people,” said Boric.

  • Thursday, May 29th 2025 - 10:56 UTC

    Chile pulls military attachés from Tel Aviv Embassy

    Diplomatic relations with Israel are not severed, Van Klaveren explained

    Chilean President Gabriel Boric Font defended his decision to withdraw the country's military attachés from Tel Aviv, citing the severe humanitarian crisis in Gaza due to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's military actions following the terrorist group Hamas' Oct. 7, 2023, attacks.

  • Monday, May 26th 2025 - 10:41 UTC

    No fatalities reported as tornado hits southern Chile

    President Boric confirmed that 8 people were injured

    An EF-1 tornado with winds between 138 and 187 km/h Sunday struck Puerto Varas in southern Chile, about 1,000 km south of Santiago, injuring eight people, none critically, and damaging approximately 150–250 homes, with significant impact on roofs, trees, power poles, and vehicles.

  • Thursday, May 15th 2025 - 18:30 UTC

    Lula lands in Montevideo for Mujica's memorial

    Lula met with Topolansky, Orsi, and Boric in front of Mujica's casket. Photo: Frente Amplio

    Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva landed in Montevideo Thursday for the memorial of former Uruguayan head of State José Pepe Mujica at the Legislative Palace. The Brazilian leader, flying straight from China, where he attended a series of multinational engagements, met with Mujica's widow and former Vice President Lucía Topolansky, current Uruguayan President Yamandú Orsi, and Chile's Gabriel Boric Font, who also participated in the Asian gatherings.

  • Wednesday, May 14th 2025 - 10:29 UTC

    Presidents of China and Chile meet in Beijing

    Boric told Xi Jinping that commerce should benefit people reciprocally, not serve one country’s interests

    During Wednesday's encounter with his Chilean colleague Gabriel Boric Font in Beijing at the IV Community of Latin American and Caribbean States (CELAC)-China ministerial Forum, Chinese President Xi Jinping highlighted the importance of South-South cooperation in a controversial world. He also recalled that the occasion marked 55 years of diplomatic ties between the two countries.