Tag: Sebastián Piñera

• Monday, August 30th 2010 - 19:24 UTC

  Survey shows 3.7% of Chilean population lives in extreme poverty

  

  A survey carried out in December 2009 found that Chile has 634,328 people (3.7% of the population) living in extreme poverty. Since 2006 this percentage has gone up by 0.5%, the first increase since 1990. Those affected are mainly in rural areas.

• Monday, August 23rd 2010 - 03:41 UTC

  Chile celebrates contact with trapped miners; rescue “will take months”

  

  Thirty-three miners who have been trapped underground in a northern Chile mine for the past 17 days are all alive, President Sebastian Piñera announced Sunday. Rescuers heard hammering noises when they sent a new probe into the mine.

• Saturday, August 14th 2010 - 02:58 UTC

  Four Chilean families concentrate 47% of assets in Santiago’s stock exchange

  

  Four families in Chile concentrate 47% of the assets of companies quoting in the Santiago Stock exchange according to a book titled “Towards an inclusive growth; economic policy proposals” written by economist Luis Eduardo Cerda.

• Friday, August 13th 2010 - 06:55 UTC

  San Jose tragedy: Piñera demands resignation of mining regulatory board

  

  Chilean president Sebastián Piñera called for the resignation of top officials from the national mining regulatory body (the National Geologic and Mining Service of Chile, Sernageomin) as a result of last Thursday’s mine collapse in northern Chile, where 33 miners remain trapped. Sernageomin’s national director, the regional director and the sub-director of were all named in the announcement.

• Thursday, August 12th 2010 - 20:34 UTC

  Piñera Invites Ecuadorian President To Meeting In Antarctica

  

  Chilean president Sebastian Piñera invited Ecuadorian President Rafael Correa to join him in a visit to Antarctica to continue diplomatic discussions concerning Chile’s ongoing maritime border dispute with Peru. The trip is expected to take place between Nov. 6 and Nov. 8.

• Thursday, August 5th 2010 - 17:22 UTC

  Chile advances in ‘bi-oceanic’ link projects with Brazil, Bolivia and Argentina

  

  Chilean President Sebastián Piñera made his Mercosur debut this week at the regional trade association’s summit in San Juan, Argentina, delivering a well received speech and holding separate meetings with Bolivian President Evo Morales and Brazil’s Lula da Silva and Argentina’s Cristina Kirchner.

• Tuesday, August 3rd 2010 - 00:18 UTC

  Chilean president Piñera has 45% approval rating and 29% negative

  

  President Sebastián Piñera received a 45% approval rating, while disapproval rates reached 29%, according to a survey reported last week by the Center of Public Education (CEP).

• Friday, July 16th 2010 - 03:18 UTC

  Two and a half million Chileans live below the poverty line

  

  The numbers are startling: two and a half million Chileans are currently living below the poverty line, according to a new study by the Caracterización Socioeconómica Nacional (CASEN) 2009.

• Friday, July 16th 2010 - 03:05 UTC

  Bolivia sea outlet negotiation with Chile inconclusive, next week in La Paz

  

  The meeting between Chile and Bolivia’s foreign ministers was temporarily suspended as the pair attended the inauguration of a new border post between the two countries in Chungará.

• Wednesday, July 7th 2010 - 06:38 UTC

  Unasur will be the “political complement which is missing with Mercosur”

  

  Unasur (Union of South American Nations) Secretary General Nestor Kirchner said on Tuesday that the regional block will become “the political complement which is missing with Mercosur”.