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Montevideo, June 6th 2025 - 06:08 UTC

Tag: Gabriel Boric

  • Friday, August 11th 2023 - 09:30 UTC

    Chile: Boric enacts bill protecting whistleblowers in corruption cases

    There can be no sweeping the garbage under the carpet, Boric said

    Chilean President Gabriel Boric Font Thursday signed into law a bill providing for the protection of whistleblowers in corruption cases within the government, it was reported in Santiago. The initiative was pushed after a journalistic investigation last June into then-Social Development Minister Giorgio Jackson.

  • Thursday, August 10th 2023 - 10:54 UTC

    Chilean lawmakers want to know about US involvement in 1973 coup

    “A half-truth is a complete lie,” Kaiser argued

    Chile's Lower House Wednesday agreed to ask President Gabriel Boric Font to instruct the Foreign Ministry to request the government of the United States to release the details of its involvement in the Sept. 11, 1973, coup d'état staged by General Augusto Pinochet Ugarte against the democratically-elected Salvador Allende, it was reported in Santiago.

  • Thursday, July 20th 2023 - 10:26 UTC

    Chile: Senate finds Commission Against Disinformation unconstitutional

    Senator Carmen Gloria Aravena was among those who voted in favor of the motion

    Chile's Senate Wednesday approved by 18 votes to 11 and 3 abstentions a draft seeking to declare President Gabriel Boric Font's Commission against Disinformation unconstitutional, it was reported in Santiago.

  • Wednesday, July 19th 2023 - 10:27 UTC

    Russia v Ukraine: “Tomorrow it could be us,” says Chilean president

    International law “has clearly been violated not by the two parties, but by one party that is an invader, which is Russia,” Boric said

    Chilean President Gabriel Boric Font Tuesday urged his fellow Latin American leaders in Brussels during the EU-Celac summit to recognize Russia's aggression against Ukraine and warned that “tomorrow it could be us.”

  • Friday, July 14th 2023 - 10:15 UTC

    Majority of Chilean public opinion, 71%, believes “the country is corrupt,” despite a better performance of Boric

    Opinion poll Cadem shows the support to Chilean president Boric has increased one point, 28% to 29% and disapproval has dropped from 67% to 64%

    The erratic government of Chilean president Gabriel Boric, who this week is on a European tour of several countries managed a one point increase support in the latest performance poll, but a clear majority of interviews also pointed out that they consider Chile, “a corrupt country”.

  • Friday, July 7th 2023 - 10:27 UTC

    Chile toughens migration controls

    According to statistics provided by the National Statistics Institute (INE) in April of this year, there are 1,482,390 foreigners living in Chile, of which 476,451 are Venezuelans.

    The Chilean government of President Gabriel Boric Font Thursday announced the creation of a committee to handle the expulsion of irregular migrants and develop a biometric registry of foreigners, it was reported in Santiago. The measure seeks to control irregular entries, such as those occurring at the northern border with Peru, of mostly Venezuelan people.

  • Thursday, June 29th 2023 - 10:40 UTC

    Chile takes on mediating role in Pacific Alliance crisis

    AMLO refuses to hand over the pro tempore presidency of the Pacific Alliance to Peru's Dina Boluarte

    After Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) failed to pass on the pro tempore presidency of the Pacific Alliance to Peru citing illegitimacy on the part of President Dina Boluarte's government, Chile announced Wednesday that it was assuming the position for a month, in a move to unblock such a transfer.

  • Thursday, June 22nd 2023 - 10:44 UTC

    Chilean President forms Commission to solve Mapuche crisis

    The Commission will have to deal with the return of ancestral lands to the indigenous people

    Chilean President Gabriel Boric Font set up a Commission for Peace and Understanding to lay the “foundations for a lasting and sustainable solution to the long-standing intercultural conflict between the Chilean State and the Mapuche people,” it was announced Wednesday in Santiago during the National Day of Indigenous Peoples holiday.

  • Thursday, June 8th 2023 - 09:52 UTC

    Chile's Constitutional Council instated

    I hope that all of us are aware of what we can achieve when we are capable of putting the common good above our particular interests, Boric said

    Chile's Constitutional Council, a body of 50 people that will pen a new Constitution, was instated Wednesday in Santiago in a new attempt to change the 1980 Magna Carta inherited from Augusto Pinochet's military regime. The first try succumbed in a plebiscite in September of 2022.

  • Thursday, June 1st 2023 - 10:33 UTC

    One-third of Chileans okay with Pinochet overthrowing Allende

    “Pinochet was a coward... never a statesman,” Boric argued

    Over 30 % of Chile's population still approves of General Augusto Pinochet staging a military coup d'état nearly half a century ago to topple Socialist President Salvador Allende, according to a study by Market Opinion Research International (MORI) released in Santiago this week.