Tag: Michelle Bachelet

• Thursday, November 27th 2014 - 06:19 UTC

  Mercosur/Pacific Alliance agree on flexible integration but no talk on tariffs

  

  Mercosur and the Pacific Alliance explored this week in Chile the possibilities of a gradual, and flexible, integration but left aside all possibility of a near future agreement on tariffs.

• Wednesday, November 5th 2014 - 04:06 UTC

  “Mercosur and Pacific Alliance are not contradictory competing blocks”

  

  Mercosur and the Pacific Alliance are not contradictory competing blocks, and can advance towards a mutually beneficial convergence, said Chile's Economy minister Luis Felipe Cespedes during a trade and investment promotion seminar in Brazil.

• Thursday, October 30th 2014 - 08:55 UTC

  Bachelet welcomed by King Felipe VI at the start of her visit to Spain

  

  King Felipe VI and Queen Letizia on Wednesday welcomed Chilean President Michelle Bachelet at the start of her official visit to Spain, expected to center on economic cooperation.

• Friday, September 12th 2014 - 06:40 UTC

  Chile's military coup anniversary exposes a divided country

  

  “In Chile there's no room, and there can be no room, for violence or fear,” President Michelle Bachelet said Thursday at a ceremony commemorating the 41st anniversary of the 1973 military coup and several days after a bomb blast injured 14 people in this capital. The 17-year military dictatorship remains controversial and a rift in Chilean society.

• Tuesday, September 2nd 2014 - 08:40 UTC

  Bachelet announces stimuli program for the foundering Chilean economy

  

  President Michelle Bachelet presented on Monday a 500 million dollars emergency plan to try and rejuvenate Chile's slowing economy via investment promotion. She added that half of the anticipated funding will come from adjustments to the budget while the rest will come from greater structural income from a tax reform that Congress is expected to approve soon

• Tuesday, July 1st 2014 - 08:16 UTC

  Obama and 'second favorite Michelle' exchange praise at the White House

  

  President Barack Obama and Chilean President Michelle Bachelet pledged to work together to strengthen the ties between both nations, including projects on energy, education and free trade. Obama met in the Oval Office on Monday with Bachelet, whom he called his second favorite Michelle.

• Monday, June 30th 2014 - 02:44 UTC

  Prince Harry ends his three-day visit to Chile

  

  Britain's Prince Harry, on the last day of a three-day official visit to Chile, joked and played with handicapped children on Sunday. The prince, joined by Social Development Minister Maria Fernanda Villegas, was all smiles and appeared relaxed with the little ones at the Friends of Jesus children's facility.

• Monday, June 30th 2014 - 02:40 UTC

  Bachelet delays trip to Washington to receive national football team

  

  Chilean president Michelle Bachelet welcomed the national football team at Government House on Sunday afternoon thus delaying for a few hours her trip to the United States where on Monday she is scheduled to meet with President Barack Obama at the White House.

• Wednesday, June 25th 2014 - 06:28 UTC

  Bachelet promises to buy and return disputed lands to Chile's tribes

  

  President Michelle Bachelet announced a plan to buy and return disputed ancestral lands to Chile's indigenous communities as part of a strategy to better incorporate them into the country's political process and economic development.

• Saturday, June 21st 2014 - 08:35 UTC

  Bachelet proposes meeting of Mercosur and Pacific Alliance leaders

  

  Chilean President Michelle Bachelet on Friday proposed a September gathering between officials and business leaders from Mercosur and the Pacific Alliance in hopes of creating a tie-up between the two Latin American trade groups.