Tag: Punta Arenas

• Monday, January 17th 2011 - 16:34 UTC

  Chile: Mayor Critisized Piñera’s Government for Invoking Security Law to Stop Protests

  

  Vladimiro Mimica, Mayor of Punta Arenas, expressed that the measures taken by Sebastián Piñera’s government to invoke the Security Law in order to stop protests in Magallanes due to gas price hikes were “an overaction and inopportune”.

• Saturday, January 15th 2011 - 17:33 UTC

  Strike easing in Magallanes, Chile

  

  THE announcement today by the organisers of the general strike in the Magallanes Region of Chile that there will be some “flexibility” in the road blocks currently in place outside the city of Punta Arenas will no doubt cause some easing of the pressure on the Chilean President to find a solution.

• Thursday, January 6th 2011 - 21:13 UTC

  Punta Arenas on strike over a planned 20% gas price hike

  

  The southern Chilean city of Punta Arenas had its largest strike in decades Wednesday in response to a government proposal to increase the price of gas in the region by 20%.

• Thursday, January 6th 2011 - 12:19 UTC

  Magallanes has the lowest unemployment rate in Chile

  

  Magallanes in the extreme south of Chile became the region with the lowest unemployment in the country during the September-November quarter. According to the official Chilean statistics office the jobless rate in Magallanes dropped to 4.1% compared to the national 7.1%.

• Saturday, December 4th 2010 - 01:26 UTC

  GeoPark Chile raises 113 million USD for further oil exploration in Magallanes

  

  The Latin American oil and gas explorer and producer GeoPark which has been successfully drilling for oil and gas in the extreme south of Chile has made a private placement of 133 million US dollars to invest in expanding activities.

• Monday, November 8th 2010 - 02:34 UTC

  Bad weather impedes presidents Piñera and Correa from visiting Antarctica

  

  The Chilean air force plane carrying President Sebastian Piñera and his Ecuadorian counterpart, Rafael Correa, to Antarctica was forced to return to Punta Arenas, extreme south of Chile, after the pilots found it impossible to land due to bad weather, officials said.

• Monday, November 1st 2010 - 05:01 UTC

  Punta Arenas based DAP incorporates new aircraft for Antarctic charters

  

  Chile’s DAP airlines, which at one time was the link between Punta Arenas and the Falkland Islands, has incorporated a second BAE-146 for seasonal charter flights to Antarctica.

• Tuesday, August 10th 2010 - 03:22 UTC

  Punta Arenas on the move to recover cruise industry lost activity

  

  The business community in Punta Arenas in the extreme south of Chile has begun to campaign to ensure the cruise industry does not abandon the city and is asking authorities for a radical change in the costs policy, which seems one of the main causes for the current situation.

• Sunday, August 8th 2010 - 07:23 UTC

  Punta Arenas anticipates drastic 33% fall in cruise visitors this season

  

  Less than a month for the beginning of the official cruise season 2010/11, prospects for Punta Arenas in the extreme south of Chile are not at all encouraging with an anticipated activity contraction of 33% over last year, according to the Empresa Portuaria Austral, EPA, which manages local port activities.

• Tuesday, July 20th 2010 - 23:47 UTC

  Argentina blockading the Falklands with “no respect for Islanders human rights”

  

  The Falklands Chamber of Commerce claims that Argentina has in effect imposed a sea-blockade of the civilian population of the Falklands with no respect whatsoever for the human rights of the Falkland Islanders, while at the same time it cynically promotes commitment to human rights on the world stage.