Tag: Santiago de Chile

• Monday, September 9th 2019 - 09:59 UTC

  Thousands march in Santiago de Chile to honor victims of Pinochet's dictatorship

  

  Thousands of demonstrators poured into the streets of Santiago de Chile on Sunday to honour the victims of General Augusto Pinochet's dictatorship, in a march that started peacefully but ended in violence.

• Saturday, September 7th 2019 - 08:27 UTC

  Chile: Trade unions accuse the Piñera administration of repressive crackdown

  

  The International Trade Union Confederation (ITUC) has joined its voice to the international condemnation of the Chilean government’s repressive crackdown of a demonstration in Santiago on Thursday. Trade unionists were among those targeted by police aggression and arrests in the aftermath of Thursday’s peaceful demonstration.

• Thursday, March 21st 2019 - 08:59 UTC

  A 12 sq. km lagoon, one hour's drive from Santiago, goes completely dry

  

  The cows and horses would have come for the last blades of grass. Now their bones are scattered on the cracked earth, victims of drought that wiped Santiago's weekend playground Lake Aculeo from the map.

• Wednesday, March 13th 2019 - 20:09 UTC

  The best and the worst city to live in Latin America

  

  Caracas, in the last place, and Montevideo ranks as the two opposite poles of the list of cities ordered by quality of life in Latin America in 2019, according to Mercer. The capital of Austria, Vienna, ranked for the tenth consecutive year as the best in the world.

• Saturday, January 5th 2019 - 10:02 UTC

  Bomb blast in downtown Santiago de Chile injures five people

  

  A blast at a bus stop that wounded five people in the centre of the Chilean capital on Friday was described as a “terrorist act” by the government. A Venezuelan couple was hospitalized with facial and leg injuries after handling a package containing the device at the bus stop on the busy Vicuna Mackenna Avenue, authorities said.

• Friday, November 30th 2018 - 15:47 UTC

  Princess Anne unveils Lord Cochrane monument in Santiago

  

  Her Royal Highness Princess Anne, Queen Elizabeth's only daughter, was in Santiago Thursday to attend the unveiling of a monument honoring local Navy hero Lord Thomas Alexander Cochrane.

• Thursday, November 22nd 2018 - 09:10 UTC

  Chile and Brazil sign free trade agreement in Santiago

  

  Chile and Brazil signed a free trade agreement on Wednesday that scraps red tape and tariffs between the two South American economies, in a move both governments said would give a boost to regional integration.

• Tuesday, May 29th 2018 - 09:14 UTC

  Smog emergency in Santiago de Chile for the fifth day running

  

  Santiago de Chile is under a smog emergency for the fifth day running because of the poor quality of air, as reported by the local authorities of the Chilean capital. For this reason 40% of vehicles without catalytic convertors, and with plate numbers ending in 0,1,2 or 3 are banned from circulating in the city. Likewise motorcycles manufactured before 2002 and with plate numbers ending in 0 and 1.

• Monday, May 7th 2018 - 08:20 UTC

  WHO claims 9 out of 10 people breathe air containing high levels of pollutants

  

  Air pollution levels remain dangerously high in many parts of the world. New data from the World Health Organization (WHO) shows that 9 out of 10 people breathe air containing high levels of pollutants. Updated estimations reveal an alarming death toll of 7 million people every year caused by ambient (outdoor) and household air pollution.

• Wednesday, April 18th 2018 - 08:44 UTC

  Chilean president Piñera learns from past mistakes: free technical education

  

  Chile’s President Sebastian Piñera proposed a bill to boost free technical education, days ahead of a planned student march in Santiago, the first such protest since he took office a month ago.