Tag: Izkia Siches

• Wednesday, September 7th 2022 - 10:25 UTC

  Boric reshuffles Cabinet to bounce back from rejection

  

  After Rejection prevailed in Sunday's referendum to approve a proposed new Constitution, Chile's President Gabriel Boric Font was forced to reshuffle his cabinet in a move to regain some credibility after less than 40% of voters supported him.

• Saturday, May 21st 2022 - 09:55 UTC

  Chile's armed forces will respond if they have to, minister says

  

  Chile's Interior Minister Izkia Siches has warned the armed forces would “respond” in case of an attack by radical Mapuche groups after the state of emergency has been reimposed in La Araucanía due to increasing violence.

• Wednesday, May 18th 2022 - 21:37 UTC

  Chile back to state of exception in southern provinces

  

  Despite its reluctance to resort to the same constitutional mechanisms adopted by the Sebastián Piñera administration, the Chilean Government of leftwing President Gabriel Boric Font Wednesday announced a state of exception to address violence in the indigenous southern zones.

• Wednesday, March 16th 2022 - 21:18 UTC

  Interior Minister's motorcade greeted with gunshots by Mapuche group in Chile

  

  Chile's new Interior Minister Izkia Siches escaped unharmed after her motorcade in La Araucanía was halted and gunshots were fired into the air in Temucuicui, some 670 kilometers south of Santiago.