Tag: Gabriel Boric

• Monday, January 9th 2023 - 09:55 UTC

  Chile's Justice Minister resigns to avoid impeachment

  

  Chilean President Gabriel Boric Font accepted during the weekend the resignations of Justice Minister Marcela Ríos and Cabinet Chief Matías Meza Lopehandia, it was reported in Santiago.

• Saturday, January 7th 2023 - 11:20 UTC

  Chile launches aid package as Boric's popularity drops

  

  The Chilean government of President Gabriel Boric Font Thursday announced a new series of measures to mitigate the effects of inflation on the population.

• Saturday, December 31st 2022 - 10:06 UTC

  Chile: 11 social protesters and one guerrilla pardoned

  

  Chilean President Gabriel Boric Font Friday pardoned 12 prisoners who had been arrested during the 2019 social protests and a former guerrilla who fought against then-dictator Augusto Pinochet Ugarte. In keeping his campaign promise, Boric drew heavy criticism from the opposition.

• Friday, December 23rd 2022 - 18:35 UTC

  Chilean President announces opening of Embassy in Palestine

  

  Palestine authorities Friday welcomed Chilean President Gabriel Boric Font's announcement Thursday that the South American country would up the status of its diplomatic mission to the Embassy level.

• Friday, December 9th 2022 - 14:45 UTC

  Croatia president to visit his “Chilean-Croatian” peer and Magallanes Region

  

  Croatian president Zoran Milanovic is expected next week in Punta Arenas, extreme south of Chile, where he has been declared “illustrious visitor” given his position and the fact he is visiting Magallanes Region where a large Croatian community has been living for over a century.

• Thursday, November 17th 2022 - 10:34 UTC

  Chile pressured to take sides in USA-China feud

  

  Chile's President Gabriel Boric Font said Thursday in Bangkok, Thailand, that his administration had been pressured “to say which side we are on” in the escalating tension between China and the United States which is focused mainly on the issue of Taiwan.

• Friday, November 11th 2022 - 10:55 UTC

  Chilean President likens Mapuches to Nazis

  

  Chile's President Gabriel Boric Font said during his first visit as head of state to La Araucanía that the Mapuche groups carrying out terrorist attacks in the area were “cowards,” and likened their actions to those of the Nazis in the 1930s.

• Friday, November 4th 2022 - 10:32 UTC

  Boric launches bill to change Chile's pension system

  

  Chilean President Gabriel Boric Font has submitted before Congress a bill to end the pension fund administrators system created under dictator Augusto Pinochet.

• Thursday, October 27th 2022 - 10:18 UTC

  Crime in Chile: Opposition praises president Boric's change of attitude', but distrust entourage

  

  Despite the collapse in public opinion approval of Chilean president Gabriel Boric, the government's opposition have valued the change of attitude from the leader, in recent weeks when referring to crucial areas such as law and order, although admitting there are still “pockets of resistance” in the government.

• Wednesday, October 19th 2022 - 09:46 UTC

  Chile commemorates 3rd anniversary of social uprising

  

  Chile celebrated Tuesday the third anniversary of the social uprising that catapulted Gabriel Boric Font to the national center stage and eventually become president. The movement also had its martyrs from brutal police repression.