SANTIAGO – Thousands of fresh graves are being dug in Santiago’s main cemetery amid a spike in Chile’s COVID-19 cases, authorities said on Thursday. Chile’s infection rate soared this week, prompting the government to declare […]
Gonzalo Díaz Ponce “Before I arrived, there were suspended causes in the TC (Constitutional Court) for a long time, on the verge of corruption’’ these were Maria Luisa Brahm’s words, the President of the Constitutional […]
Marcelo Montecinos As 7 million people prepare for total quarantine, some question if it is an over-reaction, considering that the mortality rate of SARS-CoV-2 in Chile is one of the lowest in the world. Chile’s […]
SANTIAGO – Chile ordered a mandatory total quarantine for the capital Santiago’s seven million people on Wednesday, after authorities reported a 60% spike in coronavirus infections in 24 hours, dealing a stunning blow to hopes […]
GENEVA – The novel coronavirus may become another just another virus in the world community like HIV infection, and may never go away, a senior World Health Organization (WHO) official has warned “I am not […]
WASHINGTON – The International Monetary Fund (IMF) ha said its managing director plans to approve Chile’s request for a 23.8 billion U.S. dollars Flexible Credit Line (FCL). “IMF Managing Director Kristalina Georgieva intends to recommend […]
CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va. – For much of the 20th century, summer was “polio season,” and people were accustomed to seeing swimming pools and movie theaters closed to stave off the latest epidemic. Shaking hands was off […]
Brianna Patterson Coronavirus has come into existence! It’s a dangerous virus that has already killed nearly 300,000 people and the death toll is expected to keep rising. Some persons, especially religious ones, tend to have […]
SANTIAGO – Chile is set to face the worst of the novel coronavirus outbreak in the coming weeks, President Sebastian Piñera warned on Tuesday , as South American nation surpassed 31,000 confirmed cases of the […]
WASHINGTON, DC – Peru recently enacted a law eliminating an explicit requirement that the use of force by police must be proportionate and granting police special protections against criminal prosecution, Human Rights Watch said today. […]
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