SANTIAGO – The first two 100% electric buses in the history of Santiago City’s public transport have begun operating in the Chilean capital. With the incorporation of these two K9FE buses by Clean energy giant […]
LA PAZ – Authorities from Chile, Bolivia, and Argentina have dealt harsh blow to drug trafficking by seizing 2.2 tons of drugs in simultaneous operations carried out in border areas, from November 6th to 19th. […]
SANTIAGO – Chile’s ex commander-in-chief of the Air Force, Fernando Matthei Aubel died on Sunday at the age of 92. Mattheri, a member of the Military Junta with which Augusto Pinochet governed from 1973 to […]
SANTIAGO – The Peso currency and benchmark IPSA stock index sank more than 3.5 percent in morning trading on Monday, its biggest drop in 6 years, after market-friendly presidential candidate Sebastian Piñera garnered less support […]
LONDON – Paris has won a battle to host the European Banking Authority (E.B.A.), which will relocate from London after the U.K. leaves the European Union. The French capital’s victory follows a win earlier for […]
SANTIAGO – Conservative Sebastián Piñera has won the first round with only 36 percent of the votes, but failed to reach the 50 percent required to become Chile’s president. The 67-year-old billionaire businessman, who was […]
CARACAS – Venezuelan authorities have arrested the acting president of its U.S.-based refiner Citgo and five of the subsidiary’s top executives on corruption accusations, the country’s chief prosecutor revealed on Tuesday. Reports said authorities arrested […]
HARARE – Zimbabwe’s President Robert Mugabe has resigned as president of Zimbabwe with immediate effect after 37 years in power, parliament speaker Jacob Mudenda has said. A letter from Mr. Mugabe said that the decision […]
SANTIAGO – Senator Alejandro Guillier arrived at the Audience Hall of La Moneda Palace early on Tuesday to hold a meeting with President Michelle Bachelet after the Sunday’s elections. The meeting took place in the […]
SANTIAGO – A Haitian immigrant has been hailed a hero after risking his own life by trying to catch this woman as she plunged from a ninth-floor flat in Chile. Video footage taken by neighbors […]
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