WASHINGTON, D.C. – Obesity is one of the main risk factors for diabetes. In the Americas, the percentage of adults who are obese is more than twice the world average, with more women affected than […]
SANTIAGO – Chile now has a public education law that will transfer the administration of 6,500 schools and kindergartens to the government, based on the #NuevaEducaciónPública initiative of President Michelle Bachelet. In a ceremony held […]
Stephen Borunda/Special to The Santiago Times Drawing widely from sources ranging from David Lynch’s film The Elephant Man to the ideas of W. E. B. Du Bois, Sebastián Lelio’s most recent film Una Mujer Fantástica […]
LIMA – Peru has declared a national holiday after the South American country became the final side to qualify for the World Cup 2018 in Russia with a 2-0 play-off victory over New Zealand in […]
BUENOS AIRES – The Mapuche organizations from Chile and Argentina have announced the first joint march that will cross the common border in order to protest the militarization of Mapuche territories, and to demand the […]
AUCKLAND – Chile’s LATAM Airlines has been warned by Immigration New Zealand not to allow a Syrian national to board a flight from Santiago to New Zealand. The passenger was using a passport for foreigners […]
BUENOS AIRES – Argentina is en route to becoming Latin America’s leading producer and exporter of “white petroleum” lithium. The country is disputing with its neighbor Chile, which is South America’s top producer of the […]
SANTIAGO – A Chilean senator was hospitalized after an unknown perpetrator stabbed him with a knife while working in a campaign office in Iquique, preparing for Sunday’s elections. Senator Fulvio Rossi said his father remembered […]
CARACAS – Russia and Venezuela signed a debt restructuring deal on Wednesday allowing Caracas to make “minimal” payments to Moscow in the next six years to help it meet obligations to other creditors, the Russian […]
BUENOS AIRES – Argentina’s Acindar steelmaker is currently working at 70% of its installed capacity, which is 1.7 million metric tons of crude steel and 1.4 million mt of finished steel. In 2016, Acindar produced […]
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