The 2016//17 cruise season for the Magallanes region in the extreme south of Chile will see a drop in the number of calls, from 121 to 86, of which 83 in Punta Arenas and 3 […]
SANTIAGO — A surge of excitement and anticipation is palpable among the Baha’i community in Santiago and abroad as the inauguration of the last of the continental Baha’i Houses of Worship approaches. The new Bahá’í […]
Chile-based salmon producer Blumar said on Thursday it has agreed a partnership with peer Productos del Mar Ventisqueros to work together to sell to “large retail and food service” chains in the United States and […]
Chilean President Michelle Bachelet said the country’s budgeted spending will rise 2.7 percent in 2017 compared with this year, one of the lowest rates of growth since the 1990s, as a sluggish economy has crimped […]
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 […]
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 […]
Violeta Zuniga gets around with a cane because of her knee problems, but nothing can keep the 83-year-old from performing Chile’s national dance to protest her partner’s disappearance during the country’s military dictatorship. The cueca […]
The Communist Party of Chile (PCCh) projected its platform toward October”s municipal elections, with a clear allignment with the government of Michelle Bachelet. ‘The process of reforms and transformations presently going on in the country […]
A Chilean truckdrivers’ union demonstrated Saturday outside Santiago to protest against attacks in which their vehicles were torched in the southern part of the country, though the protesters were few in number and no incidents […]
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