Tag: Sebastián Piñera

• Monday, April 11th 2022 - 10:08 UTC

  New Chilean government faces challenge of Mapuche violence: some 70 attacks in three weeks

  

  Violence in the south of Chile is on the rise and the newly installed government of president Gabriel Boric is showing greater concern following the rejection of conciliatory messages by the indigenous Mapuche who is demanding land in La Araucaria, which they claim belongs to their ancestors, and now is occupied and exploited by forestry companies and farmers.

• Saturday, March 19th 2022 - 10:10 UTC

  Chile: Boric signs environmental agreement Piñera had discarded

  

  Chile's President Gabriel Boric Font Friday signed the so-called Escazú environmental agreement, which his predecessor Sebastián Piñera discarded at the last minute after having sponsored it. “We have changed course,” Boric said.

• Saturday, March 12th 2022 - 10:43 UTC

  Boric sworn in as Chile's youngest-ever President: “Violation of Human Rights will never happen again”

  

  Quoting Salvador Allende and with a message for Latin American leaders to work together, Gabriel Boric Font addressed the people in his first speech as head of state from the iconic balcony of the Palacio de la Moneda in Santiago, Chile. At age 36, Boric was sworn in Friday as Chile's youngest ever President during e ceremony many regarded as the beginning of a new era.

• Friday, March 11th 2022 - 09:55 UTC

  Jeremy Corbyn and Dilma Rousseff, special guests to Chilean president Boric inauguration Friday

  

  The office of Chilean president-elect Gabriel Boric, who this Friday takes office as the successor of Sebastian Piñera, released the names of a list of special guests to the inauguration ceremony which includes well-known political leaders and social activists.

• Thursday, March 10th 2022 - 23:55 UTC

  With approval ratings below Pinochet's, Piñera welcomes foreign dignitaries

  

  Chile's outgoing and incoming Presidents Sebastián Piñera and Gabriel Boric Thursday had a large series of engagements with foreign dignitaries who are in the country to attend Friday's inauguration.

• Thursday, March 10th 2022 - 16:38 UTC

  Uruguayan president will fly to Chile to thank Piñera and assist Boric's presidential inauguration

  

  The President of Uruguay, Luis Lacalle Pou, will travel on Thursday night to Chile, where on Friday will take place the ceremony of change of command and the inauguration of Gabriel Boric as the new president of the Andean country.

• Tuesday, March 8th 2022 - 09:50 UTC

  Chilean Deputies pass State of Exception for southern provinces

  

  Chile's Lower House Monday passed 73 votes in favor, 41 against, and five abstentions the renewal of the State of Exception in four southern provinces in the Bíobio and La Araucanía regions. The measure still has to be approved by the Senate.

• Monday, March 7th 2022 - 09:40 UTC

  Chile to build longer ditch along Bolivian border

  

  Less than a week before the end of President Sebastián Piñera's term, Chile's government has announced plans to build a long ditch on the border with Bolivia as a measure to control the migration crisis stemming from the illegal arrival of people.

• Monday, February 28th 2022 - 20:15 UTC

  Steel cutting ceremony to build multipurpose vessels for the Chilean navy

  

  Chilean president Sebastián Piñera headed on Sunday the steel cutting ceremony for the building of the first, --out of four--, multipurpose vessel, to be incorporated to the country's navy. Also present at the ceremony were Defense minister Baldo Prokurica and the commander in chief of the navy, Admiral Juan Andrés de la Maza.

• Monday, February 21st 2022 - 10:01 UTC

  Chilean fishermen want “Ministry of the Sea” created

  

  Non-industrial fishermen in the Chilean city of Osorno have requested President-elect Gabriel Boric to create a Ministry of the Sea and insisted on the need to change the Fisheries Law so as to eliminate trawling.