Tag: Sebastián Piñera

• Monday, April 8th 2013 - 00:49 UTC

  Bachelet pledges to make Chilean education free and accessible at all levels

  

  Former Chilean president and pre-candidate for this year’s election, Michelle Bachelet announced during her first campaign rally that if elected her first bill will be addressed to put an end to ‘education for profit’ and make schooling at all levels free and accessible to all.

• Monday, March 18th 2013 - 20:52 UTC

  Bachelet returns to Chile for primaries; good chances of becoming opposition presidential candidate

  

  Former Chilean president Michelle Bachelet who resigned to her job as the Executive Director of UN Women is to be proclaimed as the leading presidential candidate at the opposition parties primary elections to be held next April 13. She has very good chances of repeating her four year period, according to public opinion polls.

• Tuesday, January 29th 2013 - 06:05 UTC

  Raul Castro assumes CELAC chair calling for integration and independence from the US

  

  Cuba formally assumed Monday the presidency of the Community of Latinamerican and Caribbean States during the group’s summit in Chile calling for regional integration and independence from the United States.

• Tuesday, January 29th 2013 - 06:02 UTC

  UK wants to control South Atlantic access and resources, claims Argentina

  

  Argentina claimed at the CELAC summit in Chile that the UK has converted the Falkland Islands into one of the “most militarized territories in the world” with the sole purpose of exploiting the natural resources of the Islands and control access to Antarctica.

• Monday, January 28th 2013 - 06:08 UTC

  Cuba takes CELAC chair on Monday; expectations regarding Havana’s proposals

  

  The first summit of the Community of Latinamerican and Caribbean States, CELAC, the brain child of president Hugo Chavez, paid tribute to the Venezuelan leader who is recovering from cancer surgery in Havana, Cuba, the country that on Monday will be receiving the group’s chair from Chile.

• Wednesday, January 23rd 2013 - 08:24 UTC

  Piñera prepared to grant constitutional recognition to Chile’s indigenous groups

  

  Chilean President Sebastian Piñera pledged to work with “maximum urgency” on a bill that would grant constitutional recognition to the country's indigenous groups. Piñera also announced the creation of an indigenous peoples' council that fully represents “their history, traditions, culture” and via which “they could raise their strong and clear voice about their future.”

• Tuesday, January 22nd 2013 - 05:19 UTC

  Europe the “most desired strategic partner” of Latinamerica, according to Spanish report

  

  The European Union is the “most desired strategic partner” of Latinamerica, although with different intensity, according to a report from the International Prospective Institute, IPI, released on Monday in Madrid and ahead of the coming EU/CELAC summit in Santiago de Chile.

• Wednesday, January 16th 2013 - 05:57 UTC

  Chilean government in contacts with Mapuches to find solution to the conflict

  

  The Chilean government started contacts in an attempt to ease tension and find solutions to the escalating conflict with the indigenous Mapuche in the southern province of La Araucania which has seen killings and properties torched.

• Monday, January 7th 2013 - 13:03 UTC

  Piñera after political consensus to declare state of emergency in Mapuche territory

  

  President Sebastián Piñera is considering declaring the state of emergency in the Araucanía region, in southern Chile, where six arson attacks which cost the lives of two people took place since Friday, Interior Minister Andrés Chadwick said.

• Monday, December 17th 2012 - 21:10 UTC

  Chilean Justice Minister resigns over private universities accreditation scandal

  

  Chile’s Justice Minister Teodoro Ribera resigned on Monday amid allegations he has ties to a former director of the country’s accreditation committee, or CNA, which improperly authorized some universities to operate.