Tag: Santiago de Chile

• Saturday, November 9th 2019 - 10:50 UTC

  Huge peaceful demonstration in Santiago, but radicals loot a church and university

  

  Around 75,000 people took to the streets in Santiago on Friday as part of ongoing anti-government protests in Chile. Local press reported the mostly peaceful demonstration as the second-largest since the protests broke out three weeks ago.

• Friday, November 8th 2019 - 09:54 UTC

  Chile tightens public order in the wake of three weeks of anti government protests and looting

  

  Chile's President Sebastian Piñera on Thursday announced a series of measures to tighten public order in the wake of three weeks of anti-government protests that have left at least 20 people dead.

• Thursday, October 31st 2019 - 09:50 UTC

  Chile will not host APEC trade meeting and COP25 climate conference: “common sense”

  

  Chile has withdrawn as host of the Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) trade summit in November and the COP25 climate conference in December after several weeks of violent unrest, President Sebastian Piñera announced on Wednesday. He described the decision as “deeply painful” but “common sense” dictated the decision to withdraw from the two major international summits.

• Saturday, October 19th 2019 - 09:50 UTC

  Santiago on fire and with no transport and Piñera in a family party at a pizza parlor

  

  The Chilean government established on Friday night a state of national emergency in the capital Santiago and surrounding areas following extensive arson, rioting and looting in the city by students protesting transport fares, particularly subway fares, which are considered among the most expensive in the region.

• 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.