Tag: Gabriel Boric

• Thursday, December 28th 2023 - 09:04 UTC

  Chile's state-owned Codelco strikes deal with SQP for lithium extraction

  

  Chilean President Gabriel Boric Font Wednesday celebrated a new agreement between the state-owned National Copper Corporation (Codelco) and Sociedad Química y Minera (SQM) to create a public-private partnership to exploit the country's lithium, with the state as the main shareholder, it was reported in Santiago.

• Monday, December 18th 2023 - 10:59 UTC

  New attempt to reform Chile's Constitution fails

  

  Chile voted 55.45 % against the new Constitution and thus the one passed in the early 1980s under former dictator Augusto Pinochet Ugarte will remain in force, it was reported Sunday in Santiago.

• Friday, December 15th 2023 - 10:11 UTC

  Chile: Presidential pardonee arrested for kidnapping

  

  A rioter who had been convicted for his involvement in the 2019 uprisings and later pardoned by Chilean President Gabriel Boric Font was arrested Thursday by Carabineros in Copiapó on kidnapping charges.

• Thursday, November 23rd 2023 - 09:12 UTC

  Chile's new ambassador to Buenos Aires chosen

  

  Chilean President Gabriel Boric Font Wednesday chose José Antonio Viera-Gallo to fill the vacancy as Ambassador to Argentina, which would mean the appointee's return to a position he held between 2015 and 2018, Undersecretary of the Interior Manuel Monsalve announced.

• Wednesday, November 22nd 2023 - 08:59 UTC

  Boric: Chile and Argentina are brotherly peoples

  

  Chile's President Gabriel Boric Font insisted that his country and Argentina were brotherly peoples and that despite his ideological differences with Javier Milei, his duty was to “continue promoting integration at the highest level.”

• Monday, November 13th 2023 - 14:03 UTC

  Chilean president has 59% disapproval; polls show 42% do not support new constitution

  

  The assessment of Chilean president Gabriel Boric' performance as registered by pollster Cadem shows that support for the head of state, following several weeks of stabilization, has again fallen four points and now stands at 33%.

• Monday, November 6th 2023 - 09:54 UTC

  Paraguayan President off to Chile for 3-day state visit

  

  Paraguayan President Santiago Peña will be traveling to Santiago for a meeting with his Chilean colleague Gabriel Boric Font on Monday and a conference at the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) on Tuesday, among other engagements. Peña will stay in the Chilean capital until Nov. 8, it was also announced.

• Saturday, November 4th 2023 - 11:00 UTC

  Biden pledges to boost regional trade before leaders of the Americas

  

  US President Joseph Biden pledged in Washington DC before a dozen leaders from Barbados, Canada, Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, Peru, and Uruguay to boost economic ties while standing up to China and other global competitors seeking their slice of regional businesses.

• Wednesday, November 1st 2023 - 10:30 UTC

  Chile recalls Ambassador to Israel as violence in Gaza grows

  

  President Gabriel Boric Font Tuesday recalled Chile's Ambassador to Israel Jorge Carvajal for consultations given the “unacceptable violations of international humanitarian law” in the Gaza Strip, it was reported in Santiago after a statement released by the Foreign Ministry.

• Tuesday, October 17th 2023 - 09:29 UTC

  Members of Chilean delegation in China test positive for Covid-19

  

  Various members of the Chilean delegation touring China ahead of the III Forum of the Belt and Road International Cooperation have tested positive for Covid-19 although President Gabriel Boric Font's results came back negative. All those infected will begin a 5-day isolation as per Chilean sanitary protocols, it was reported.