Chile-based salmon producer Blumar said on Thursday it has agreed a partnership with peer Productos del Mar Ventisqueros to work together to sell to “large retail and food service” chains in the United States and […]
President Obama has said Congress made a “mistake” by overriding his veto and pushing through a bill that allows legal action against Saudi Arabia over the 9/11 attacks. He added that the bill would set […]
Two former coronels of the Chilean Air Force were sentenced to four years in prison over the torture charges against Alberto Bachelet in 1973 and 1974. General Bachelet was taken prisoner when he rebelled against […]
Chilean President Michelle Bachelet said the country’s budgeted spending will rise 2.7 percent in 2017 compared with this year, one of the lowest rates of growth since the 1990s, as a sluggish economy has crimped […]
SAN SEBASTIAN — Building Chile’s growing pantheon of eye-catching young women directors, already one of the strongest of any national cinema in Latin America, Chile’s Jirafa Films (“The Blind Christ”) has closed a deal with […]
Nearly one-third of Argentina’s population lives in poverty, the government said on Wednesday in the first official poverty data published in three years, underscoring the difficulty of reaching President Mauricio Macri’s stated “zero poverty” goal. […]
Chilean Independence Day celebrations were again held in the Falkland Islands this year, with the main event being hosted at Government House in Stanley, demonstrating the strong relationship that has formed between Chile and the […]
The United States on Friday gave Chilean President Michelle Bachelet declassified CIA documents confirming that former Chilean dictator Augusto Pinochet personally ordered the 1976 assassination of opposition leader Orlando Letelier. US Deputy Secretary of State […]
The Region of the Americas is the first in the world to have eliminated measles, a viral disease that can cause severe health problems, including pneumonia, blindness, brain swelling and even death. This achievement culminates […]
Several huge whales have washed up dead over recent months on beaches in northern Chile, where scientists suspect they are moving in increasing numbers due to climate change. After the beaching of hundreds of dead […]
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