Tag: Rodrigo Ubilla

• Monday, December 10th 2018 - 05:05 UTC

  Chile pulls out of controversial UN migration pact

  

  Chile has become the latest country to pull out of a controversial United Nations migration pact, its interior ministry indicated, provoking fury among opposition parties who accused Sebastian Piñera's government of “shameful and authoritarian” behavior.

• Monday, September 26th 2011 - 03:58 UTC

  Huge blackout exposes vulnerability of world’s main copper supplier energy grid

  

  A massive power blackout on Saturday paralyzed crucial copper mines in Chile and darkened vast swaths of the country including the capital Santiago before energy started to be restored, officials said.

• Monday, September 12th 2011 - 20:00 UTC

  Violent incidents and power cuts in Chile recall the 11 September 1973 military coup

  

  Chile’s Sunday September 11 demonstrations to recall the military coup of 1973 turned violent and left one adolescent with a gun wound, power cuts, dozens of arrests and 350 “outbreaks of violence” in the capital Santiago according to the Carabineros (militarized police) report.