Tag: Santiago metro station

• Wednesday, October 23rd 2019 - 09:58 UTC

  Piñera asks for forgiveness and announces a social agenda to resolve inequality accumulated for decades

  

  Chile’s President Sebastian Piñera announced an ambitious raft of measures on Tuesday, aiming to quell protests against his government with a guaranteed minimum wage, a hike in the state pension offering and the stabilization of electricity costs.

• Tuesday, October 22nd 2019 - 09:57 UTC

  Piñera down tones language and invites opposition leaders to forge a new social contract: death toll of 12

  

  Chilean President Sebastian Piñera said on Monday evening he would meet opposition leaders to forge a “new social contract” to alleviate inequality as thousands of Chileans defied a military curfew in protest marches around the capital Santiago and several other main cities.

• Sunday, October 20th 2019 - 09:26 UTC

  Chilean president suspends rise in metro fares, pledges dialogue and night curfew in most restive areas

  

  Chile's President Sebastián Piñera announced on Saturday the suspension of a rise in metro fares that sparked protests across the country. Soldiers and tanks were deployed in the capital, Santiago after the government declared a state of emergency but demonstrations continued on Saturday.

• Tuesday, September 9th 2014 - 03:14 UTC

  Chile will apply antiterrorism law to Monday's bombing of metro station

  

  Monday's bombing at a Santiago metro station that left at least ten people wounded was a terrorist attack, the Chilean government said. This is the last and most serious of a string of bombs that have been found across Santiago most planted at night.