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 […]
By Christian Scheinpflug So, it finally happened. On August 31, the Brazilian Senate voted 61:20 to impeach Dilma Rousseff. The guilty conscience of the 61 senators, however, prevented them from completely banning her from ever […]
Durante la ceremonia de Conmemoración del 11 de Septiembre de 1973 la Jefa de Estado anunció que Lorena Fries será la subsecretaria de Derechos Humanos. El tradicional acto estuvo marcado por la solemnidad. “Porque es […]
People across Chile honored President Salvador Allende on Sunday, marking the 43rd anniversary of the coup led by Gen. Augusto Pinochet, who overthrew him. The main ceremony was held at the La Moneda presidential palace, […]
Of the many military coups faced by the republics of Latin America, it is the coup of 11 September 1973 that has engraved itself most permanently on the collective memory. The images of the bombing […]
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