Tag: Punta Arenas

Thursday, March 1st 2012 - 22:38 UTC
Argentina wants to review 1999 accord with Aerolineas direct flights Buenos Aires/Falklands

President Cristina Fernandez said Argentina will seek to re-negotiate the 1999 accord with the UK which allows for a weekly flight connecting the Falklands Islands and Chile, and replace it with three schedules a week but from Buenos Aires and in the country’s flag carrier, Aerolineas Argentinas.
Monday, February 13th 2012 - 21:05 UTC
Chilean community in Falklands plan to write a letter to President Piñera

After a successful turnout and demonstration last week, the Chilean community in the Falkland Islands will be deciding this week on addressing letters to President Sebastian Piñera and President of the Senate, Guillermo Guiralde to tell them that in the Islands there is also a piece of Chile.
Saturday, January 14th 2012 - 06:28 UTC
Piñera and Mujica committed to expand their countries Antarctic efforts

Uruguayan president Jose Mujica and his host and peer Sebastián Piñera said they are committed to expand and intensify the presence of their countries in Antarctica which they described as a “continent of peace and of the future”.
Wednesday, December 28th 2011 - 22:31 UTC
Piñera and CFK agree to reprogram the Argentine leaders’ official visit to Chile

Chilean president Sebastián Piñera and his Argentine peer Cristina Fernandez agreed to reprogram her visit to Santiago scheduled for the last week of January following the announcement that the Argentine leader will undergo thyroid cancer surgery next January 4.
Wednesday, December 28th 2011 - 03:30 UTC
UK ambassador in Chile “concerned” with “economic blockade” on the Falklands

The British Ambassador to Chile, Jon Benjamin, expressed on Tuesday UK’s “concern” over “countries that have joined” the Mercosur bloc in their decision to support Argentina, by putting in place a ban on ships flying the Malvinas Islands’ flag from docking at their ports.
Tuesday, December 27th 2011 - 07:04 UTC
Chile confirms it supports Mercosur resolution barring Falklands’ flagged vessels

Chilean government Secretary General Andres Chadwick denied on Monday any official message from Britain or from Spain regarding Chilean support for the resolution that bars vessels flying the Malvinas flag from Mercosur ports, reports La Tercera from Santiago.
Monday, December 19th 2011 - 07:22 UTC
UK ambassador underlines close historic links between Falklands and Punta Arenas

British ambassador in Chile Jon Benjamin met this week in Punta Arenas with a group of local students from municipal managed schools who were recently part of an exchange program with the Falkland Islands and underlined the close links between the two communities.
Monday, November 21st 2011 - 03:52 UTC
Chile opens ferry line linking Punta Arenas with Puerto Williams

The new ferry that links extreme south ports of Chile was officially presented in Puerto Williams and is already fully operational ahead of the summer season.
Saturday, November 19th 2011 - 06:09 UTC
Argentina sponsors a free movement of peoples’ area in Magallanes and Tierra del Fuego

Argentina announced its full support to make the tip of the South American continent ‘a free movement of peoples’ area’ that would include Chile’s Magallanes region in the extreme south of the country and Tierra del Fuego, shared by the neighbouring countries.
Thursday, October 27th 2011 - 20:13 UTC
Centennial of Amundsen and Scott’s South Pole feat next 14 December

British and Norwegian teams are in Punta Arenas, extreme south of Chile, preparing for a repeat of the South Pole feat on 14 December 1911 first accomplished by explorer Roald Amundsen and a month later by Sir Robert Scott.