About 50 Mapuche took the church of Our Lady of Carmen, in the city of Cañete, in protest against the sentence of 25 years in prison for the operational leader of the Coordinadora Arauco-Malleco (CAM), Héctor Llaitul and the other three Mapuche than 20 years. Read Article
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Lithium and lithium carbonate markets are set to grow in Latin America with the commissioning of a new lithium carbonate processing plant in Argentina and plans by Bolivia to use Iranian help in exploiting its deposits of the mineral. Read Article
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The angry protesters organized two peaceful rallies on Sunday, complaining that the nuclear agreement was signed despite major nuclear crisis that developed in Japan following the huge earthquake and tsunami that struck the country on March 11, AFP reported Monday. Chilean opposition lawmakers and environmentalists argue that the Friday agreement is too risky for their […]
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Police in Chile say a small bomb exploded and broke some windows at a U.S. cultural institute hours ahead of President Barack Obama’s arrival. No one was injured in the attack, which happened in Vina del Mar, a seaside city far from the Obamas’ activities in the capital of Santiago. Read Article
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Chile and the United States signed a nuclear cooperation agreement, ahead of US President Barack Obama’s visit Monday during his Latin America trip. Plans for Obama to participate in the ceremony were scrapped and the signing was pulled forward to Friday amid the post-earthquake and -tsunami nuclear crisis at the Fukushima power plant in Japan. […]
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Smoking a cigarette at the Estadio Nacional or in a rock concert could soon be a thing of the past. The government plans to prohibit smoking in enclosed public areas, starting with sports stadiums and concerts, as part of its proposed reforms to the nation’s Tobacco Law. The new Undersecretary of Health, Jorge Diaz, announced […]
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Chilean scientists advised against the construction of nuclear plants in the country due to its high seismicity, as the world focuses on the dangerous emergency in Japan. The experts’ warning comes five days before U.S. President Barrack Obama’s visit to Chile. The two countries expect to sign a cooperation agreement on nuclear energy. Read Article
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Since August 2010, the Rapa Nui islanders have been carrying out demonstrations at various important tourist sites on the island that they claim as their ancestral lands. At the Hotel Hanga Roa, the site of a USD 50 million redevelopment project supported by Chile’s Piñera government, the Hito family—a powerful Rapa Nui clan—had been staging […]
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Chile is the 45th country to form a Facebook community page that connects mothers and babies who need human milk with mothers offering to donate. Read Article
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No. 1 producer Chile are unlikely to suffer from Japan’s huge earthquake, as tight global supply means shipments can easily be rerouted to alternative markets, traders said on Monday. Read Article
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DOLE Chile, the largest fruit exporter from Chile, has announced plans for expansion in the neighbouring market of Argentina, writes Vladimir Pekic. A key component of the plan is the installation of a new vegetable processing plant in Argentina. According to Juan Pablo Vicuña, Dole Chile’s general manager, his company wants to replicate the vegetable […]
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Crossing the world’s largest salt desert is a well-marked signpost on the Gringo Trail. Travellers typically use it to journey from Bolivia into the Chilean Atacama, or vice versa. There’s certainly a lot of transport involved. It’s a four-hour bus ride from La Paz to Oruro, and then a seven-hour train to Uyuni, an outpost […]
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at 09:31 pm yesterday, Hector Olmos (88) and his wife Angela Maurer (86) were the only solid material room adobe home. Suddenly, a strong movement shook her home, which a decade ago had a demolition order. With her husband unable to move, due to diabetes have his legs amputated, she walked over and saw that […]
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Chilean congressional commission has found two mine owners responsible for the accident that trapped 33 men a half-mile underground for 69 days last year. The commission’s report, which is expected to be approved by the lower house on Thursday (local time), said members unanimously found Alejandro Bohn and Marcelo Kemeny responsible for the collapse that […]
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SGS Industrial Services Chile, Santiago, has been assigned a 2-year contract to provide comprehensive asset integrity management and nondestructive testing services for two oil refineries in Chile. The company didn’t identify the plants. OGJ’s annual survey indicates that Chile’s state Empresa Nacional de Petroleo operates the country’s only three refineries, Anconcagua, Gregorio, and BioBio (OGJ, […]
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Convicted Mapuche leaders in southern Chile are victims of a Draconian anti-terrorism law and a rigged trial, their families have denounced in a statement released Monday in Santiago. The message says that the verdict of the court of Cañete, in the Chilean Bío Bío, is a political persecution aimed at favoring the usurpation of Mapuche […]
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President Sebastian Pinera marked Sunday’s anniversary of one of the largest earthquakes in recorded history by praising his government’s progress on reconstruction and calling for national unity. Instead, his political opponents staged protests and questioned his numbers. Read Article
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Caracas – Deliveries of Russian air defense system S-300 to Venezuela has been delayed, but will continue, as stated by an official of Rosoboronexport, Russia’s state-owned arms export. Read Article
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Chile’s government has announced that by May 21, when the president Sebastián Piñera yield annual public accounts, shall be handled in Congress a new system of funding for equipment Armed Forces of this country. After meeting with President Piñera, the defense minister, Andres Allamand, reported that “before 21 May will be filing a new bill […]
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Revalue Oldest] convert lofts the old houses of traditional neighborhoods, such as Republic, Yungay and Eighteen, it is fashionable. The projects are targeted to young professionals who value the restoration of buildings and neighborhoods with history. Read Article
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He arrived on board a scooter type bike, with helmet, leather jacket and a backpack, to the parking lots located in Matias Cousino, Teatinos, Cathedral, among others, in downtown Santiago. Juan Medina Vega (21) appeared to be one of a dozen riders who park their car there to go to the office. So far, nothing […]
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According to the cable obtained by the website WikiLeaks, U.S. officials reported that Israel worked with the Chilean government to monitor what it called “unusual activity” by Iran’s envoy to Santiago. Read Article
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A total of 23,125 foreigners, mostly Peruvian and Bolivian citizens were arrested in the past three years on charges of committing various crimes, according to a police intelligence document. The crimes of greater social connotation police committed by foreign defendants are theft and drug trafficking. Read Article
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Israel was working with the Chilean government to spy on the Iranian Embassy in Chile, according to a diplomatic cable released by WikiLeaks. A cable from the U.S. Embassy in Santiago to the State Department in Washington, dated July 21, 2008, stated that the Israeli military attache in Chile, Col. Yoeli Or, had informed his […]
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GERMAN TOURIST DIES IN TORRES DEL PAINE NATIONAL PARK A German tourist identified as Robert Kornelius Bott, 68, died in the area of Lago Grey in Torres del Paine National Park. The park manager, Guillermo Santana, said that at 18:25 hours on Thursday received a statement from the lodge radial Grey, who reported that in […]
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With 50,000 daily visitors arriving in over 20,000 cars, gaining access to the Santiago International Airport can take over 15 minutes through traffic. To address this problem, MOP and the road construction group Costanera Norte have initiated a series of projects to improve surrounding roads and airport access points. Read Article
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On the tiny, legendary Pacific speck of land known as Easter Island, located 2,000 miles from the Chilean coastline, the ongoing non-violent protests being staged by the Hito family at the Hotel Hanga Roa came to a climax on Sunday February 6, 2011. Fifty armed members of the Chilean national police force (los Carabineros) mounted […]
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From a height of 5 meters on a rocky slope to the river bed Cochamó fell at noon on Monday the hiker, 53, identified as Luis Ibáñez Contreras who was trekking in the sector “Boards.” Read Article
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Chile’s office of emergency services says it has no information about victims or damage from the magnitude-6.6 quake that struck just after midnight Sunday. A magnitude-6.8 quake Friday sent thousands running for higher ground. Read Article
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American Scientific Resources, Inc. (Pink Sheets: ASFX) announces a distribution agreement with Sell-Out Ltd. based in Santiago, Chile. An importer and distributor of personal, health and homecare products, Sell-Out Ltd., has agreed to distribute Kidz-Med VeraTemp non-contact thermometers, from American Scientific Resources, in the Chilean retail market. Joaquin Schneider, Manager, Sell-Out Ltd. states, “We are […]
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International Cristo Redentor tunnel, which links Mendoza with Chile, was closed yesterday afternoon after the earthquake in the neighboring country due to a landslide that blocked the route across the mountains, said the National Highways (DNV) and police personnel. Read Article
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Some Twitter communications during and after today’s earthquake. It appears some damage and electricity outages. Read Article
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An 6.8-magnitude earthquake has struck central Chile, in the region that was hit by a huge quake and tsunami in February last year. Thousands of people fled to higher ground but there have been no reports of deaths or serious damage. Read Article
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At midnight, a branch of BBVA in the eastern area of the capital were damaged as a result of a bomb. Read Article
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At noon of the day, saw the first victim of the phenomenon of the la nina with the effect of climate change. A woman was preparing to set up a tent in the campsite at Laguna Esmeralda when she was struck by lightning that left her with severe burns to his arms. Read Article
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Designed as an apartment venue and later turned into a hotel, GEN is a 26-storey building designed by Felipe Assadi + Francisca Pulido located in Santiago de Chile with the usual green credentials but with two cool details: distributed energy generation with individual solar panels exposed to the front, and a second skin made with […]
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Brazilian UFO Magazine recently reported the Directorate of Civil Aeronatics of Chile has released videos and audio files of UFO sightings. The media was released through the Comite de Estudios de Fenomenos Aereos Anomales (CEFAA). Of 183 UFO incidebnts, 12 were unexplained. Source- Eltiempo.com
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A Chilean judge suspended criminal trespassing charges against a family of Easter Islanders on Tuesday despite their six-month takeover of a $50 million hotel development on their ancestral land. Judge Nora Bahamondes ruled the courts must first determine who rightfully owns the land before deciding whether anybody was trespassing….. Read Article
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Police on Easter Island have evicted a group of indigenous people who had been occupying the grounds of a luxury hotel since last year. The group of Rapa Nui say the land on which the hotel was built had been illegally taken from their ancestors generations ago. They have been protesting for months over what […]
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The first Emirati embassy in Chile will open this year in Santiago, signalling a growing bond between the two countries. That connection has been strengthened by an influential Chilean family with roots in Palestine and experience in the UAE. Jean-Paul Tarud, Chile’s ambassador to the UAE since 2009, was born here and has lived here […]
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Chilean authorities evacuated passengers and crew from an Iberia airline flight to Madrid, Spain, following a bomb threat Sunday. Police said later they arrested a Chilean woman in the case. Read Article
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20 people who form a high-level commission of the Carabineros de Chile come to Ecuador to provide advice to the National Police and collaborate in the creation of a corps of detectives, said President Rafael Correa. Read Article
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A slight percentage drop in tourism is projected for January, as confirmed by the director of Sernatur, Alvaro Castilla. Los motivos de esta baja -que se espera sea dada a conocer la próxima semana- son “un poco previsibles”, dice Castilla y se deben “al tema del tipo de cambio” y en menor medida al terremoto. […]
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The Naturist Association Chile Playa Luna, who on Sunday celebrated the anniversary only 11 of the resort where nudity is an authorized official practice, will celebrate Valentine’s Day with a tour of the place, on Sunday 13 February. Explains René Rojas La Tercera, one of the founders of the Anachie (Naturist Association of Chile) and […]
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Mina Invierno, a major coal mine project to be located in Chilean Patagonia, has sparked new controversy in the Magallanes Region. The coal mine will be located on Isla Riesco, Chile’s fourth biggest island, just 80 miles from the region’s capital of Punta Arenas. Read Article
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A 12-member delegation of the Chilean Parliament, visiting the Palestinian Territories, vowed to do what is necessary and fight for preventing their government to sign a free trade exchange treaty with Israel. Read Article
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Central Chile still runs the risk of a large earthquake close to the site of last February’s Magnitude 8.8 event, scientists say. It was widely speculated at the time that the tremor would have released pressure on the fault running through the country’s Maule region. Read Article
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Gottwald Port Technology GmbH (Gottwald), a subsidiary of Demag Cranes AG, has a contract to supply a mobile harbor crane G HMK 8410 to get the port Angamos, Mejillones, Chile. The crane Generation 5 (Model 8), the largest mobile harbor crane Gottwald be for container handling in the Americas. The G HMK 8410, it will […]
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A consumer-advocate organization and local news media are reporting that Chile’s top antitrust authorities have suspended a merger between Chilean airline LAN and Brazilian airline TAM. The daily newspaper La Tercera is reporting that the five members of the Court for the Defense of Free Competition agreed to suspend the merger while they determine whether […]
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Chilean judicial officials vowed Thursday to investigate the death of President Salvador Allende for the first time, 37 years after the socialist leader was found shot through the head with a machine gun during a withering attack on the presidential palace. Allende died during the Sept. 11, 1973, coup led by Gen. Augusto Pinochet, who […]
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“We are a peaceful people. We don’t like war. We don’t want police and military on our land,” said Erity Teave, an indigenous activist from the Chilean-administered Easter Island in the Pacific Ocean. With tears welling up in her eyes, but still trying to manage a graceful smile, she asked: “Do you think the U.N. […]
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Chile’s central bank is very worried about rising inflation and its monetary policy will not be subordinated to the exchange rate, the bank’s chief Jose De Gregorio told a local daily in an interview published on Sunday. Read Article
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A strike in southern Chile over a hike in natural gas prices ended Tuesday after the federal government and city leaders reached an agreement. International tourists had been stranded at the Punta Arenas, Chile, airport for hours or longer without food because all of the roads leading out of it were blocked by strikers. One […]
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Talks between government officials and local leaders on Monday failed to end protests over an increase in natural gas prices in the south of Chile. Chile’s Mining and Energy Minister Laurence Golborne travelled to the regional capital of Punta Arenas to offer a limit on the price increase to 3 percent, an improvement from the […]
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Strikes against Chile’s proposed 16.8 percent slashing of natural gas to the Magallenes region left thousands of tourists stranded, officials said. Protesters’ roadblocks set up since Wednesday prevented visitors to Torres Del Paine Park from leaving the region’s capital of Punta Arenas and Puerto Natales. Read Article
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Chile’s Collahuasi mine has found a second alternative export route as the world’s No. 3 copper deposit seeks to normalize deliveries and lift a near four-week force majeure, a port official told Reuters on Monday. Collahuasi will ship 10,000 tonnes of copper concentrate via the northern Arica port after weeks of talks following a Dec. […]
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Wide scale protests that began just before midnight on Tuesday have shut down much of the Magallanes Region in southern Chile, cutting off exits from the regional capital of Punta Arenas and freezing most traffic within the city. Read Article
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Protests over gas price increases of 17 percent are intensifying in far southern Chile. Already, two women protesters have been killed and a baby was among those injured when a truck smashed into a barricade and knocked them into a bonfire. About 21 people have been arrested. Read Article
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While many are sceptical that the Chilean government will deliver on its promise of a shift in indigenous policy, the deadline is looming for the administration of Sebastián Piñera to live up to Inter-American Commission on Human Rights recommendations with respect to imprisoned members of the Mapuche community. Read Article
SINCE last summer, when the Federal Reserve turned back on the liquidity taps, the flow has been largely to developing economies. Rather like financial bathtubs, popular emerging markets in South America, Asia and even Africa have been attracting vast amounts of frothy hot money, and developing world currencies have appreciated immensely. Read Article
The Chilean subsidiary of the French company(Edenred) has begun offering companies and government departments the ability to manage the benefit of their employees lunch with this technology. Read Article
Chile began negotiations with the United States to join the program “Visa Waiver” whereby Chilean tourists do not require visa to travel to the country’s north. The negotiations were launched this week by Chile’s ambassador to Washington Arturo Fermandois, who presented the Chilean government’s request to enter the Visa Waiver program sponsored by the Department […]
LAN Airlines, one of Latin America’s leading passenger and cargo airlines, signed a firm order for 50 new eco-efficient Airbus A320 Family aircraft, making it the largest single airline order for Airbus in Latin America. Read Article
Two and a half years ago, the Baker River in Chilean Patagonia suddenly tripled in size, causing a virtual river tsunami. In less than 48 hours, roads, bridges, and farms were severely damaged and dozens of livestock drowned. Residents were in disbelief. Read Article
With a document in hand, the director of la Oficina Office Nacional National de Emergencia (Onemi), Vicente Núñez. Vicente Núñez, said his agency ruled out the occurrence of a tsunami on the coast. national. Read Article
There have been a number of small earthquakes today in Chile as reported by the University of Chile. The USGS has just reported two larger earthquakes in the last hour. Map below refers to 7.1 earthquake. Magnitude 5.0 Date-Time Sunday, January 02, 2011 at 21:10:19 UTC Sunday, January 02, 2011 at 06:10:19 PM at epicenter […]
The annual ranking by the British consultants Sky Research puts Lima’s Jorge Chávez Airport in front of all South America’s airports, with Pudahuel Airport in Chile coming in just behind. Read Article
As a result of the cold front affecting Europe, Chile’s Sociedad Punta de Lobos (SPL) —salt producer and exporter—is working at full capacity to export salt destined primarily for Belgium, Holland, Germany and France. Read Article
Chile’s LAN airline has placed a record purchase order with Airbus for 50 medium-range passenger jets in an acquisitions program aimed at giving passengers confidence Latin American air transportation is safe and secure. Read Article
More than 30 inmates and prison guards have been injured in a riot at a jail in northern Chile. Four of those injured are now in hospital. Six members of the security forces were slightly hurt. Read Article
The Chilean government will sell its minority stakes in four water utilities and expects to fetch a total of $1.6 billion, the Finance and Economy Ministers said Wednesday at a joint press conference. Read Article
A dozen Chilean military officers were given jail sentences ranging from 15 years to life by a Paris court, over the disappearance of four French nationals during the rule of late Chilean dictator Augusto Pinochet. Read Article
A port serving Chile’s Collahuasi mine, the world’s No. 3 copper deposit, could shut down for a month after an accident that killed three workers, a port official said on Sunday. Read Article
23 fires are scoarching central Chile. There have been reported 2,000 acres burned in the vicinity of Valparaiso. Read Article