SANTIAGO – At least 120 homes have been damaged in forest fires raging near the Chilean port city of Valparaíso, officials said on Tuesday. Several districts in the west of the capital have been evacuated, […]
SANTIAGO – The Chilean Air Force contacted relatives of the 38 people aboard its Lockheed Hercules C-130 transport aircraft which went missing Monday afternoon en route to Antarctica to report the discovery of human remains […]
BUENOS AIRES – Argentina’s new president Alberto Fernández has said his country needs to get back on its feet before anything else after four years of inadequate management by his predecessor Mauricio Macri, as he […]
MEXICO CITY – This week Mexico’s Foreign Minister Marcelo Ebrard ordered the prompt return of Ambassador Oscar Ricardo Valero Recio Becerra from his Argentina commission after surveillance footage caught the diplomat red-handed trying to shoplift […]
SANTIAGO – A Chilean Air Force (FACh) Hercules C130 aircraft is feared to have crashed near Drake Passage, located between the Southern tip of South America and the edge of Antarctica. The military transport aircraft […]
Chile’s gross domestic product grew 3.3 percent in the third quarter of 2019 compared with a year earlier, the central bank said on Monday. The market had predicted relatively strong growth during the July through […]
SANTIAGO – American retail giant Walmart has sought court orders for police protection in protest-hit Chile after more than 120 of its supermarkets were looted or burned during recent rioting. The Chilean subsidiary of the […]
SANTIAGO – A long meeting of almost three hours was held on Sunday between President Sebastián Piñera and the leaders of Chile Vamos parties, which was also attended by the heads of the bench and […]
LA PAZ – Bolivian President Evo Morales, the first indigenous ruler of the country, announced his resignation in a televised address on Sunday after weeks of protests around “irregularities” in last month’s elections. Earlier in […]
NEW YORK – The United Nations will send a special mission to investigate human rights abuses in Chile, where a general strike went into its second day following a week of street protests that left […]
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