SANTIAGO – The Prosecutor’s Office of the southern Chilean region of La Araucanía is investigating the death of the lonko (chief) of a Mapuche community, whose body was found on a rural road in the […]
SANTIAGO – Former Carabineros Sergeant Carlos Alarcón told prosecutors that he and his fellow servicemen were coached to hide the truth from investigators in the death of Mapuche leader Camilo Catrillanca Marín on November 14 […]
SANTIAGO – Carabineros Director General Hermes Soto Monday said his force would freeze the Jungle Commando training programme in Colombia. “We have no plans to continue sending people to train there,” he said. This training […]
SANTIAGO – On Sunday, Sebastián Piñera began his first public speech as Chile’s president, displayed on one of the balconies of the Palace of La Moneda in Santiago with a Plaza de la Constitución full […]
SANTIAGO – At least 29 tractor trailer trucks and other heavy machinery burned by arsonists in southern Chile early on Friday, according to police and a truck owners association. In a statement following the attack, […]
SANTIAGO – Eleven people have been killed and a further 20 injured in a bus crash in southern Chile. The bus was carrying 45 passengers including officials from the local family health center who work […]
SANTIAGO – The Vatican and the Chilean bishops have simultaneously presented the program for Pope Francis’ visit. The pope will arrive in Santiago on January 15. He will have an intense schedule on January 16. […]
SANTIAGO – Angry protestors burned a bus and scattered pamphlets in protest of an upcoming visit by Pope Francis to the Araucania region, which has long been a site of attempts by the Mapuche indigenous […]
SANTIAGO – Italian utility Enel S.p.A., acting through its subsidiary Enel Generación Chile, has been awarded the supply of 1.180 TWh per year to a number of Chilean distribution companies through the tender launched by […]
SANTIAGO – Police have arrested a former secret service agent sentenced to jail for human rights abuses during the military government led by General Augusto Pinochet. Reimer Kohlitz was detained during an anti-drugs operation near […]
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