SANTIAGO – Chile has said it would beef up border policing ahead of a wave of visitors likely to arrive in the country from neighboring countries next month during a visit of Pope Francis. With […]
LONDON – A 63-year-old Chilean man flew into the United Kingdom with the sole intention of stealing tourists’ cash and luggage, lifting items including bags, cameras and purses. Launching a £30,000 crime spree between August […]
SANTIAGO – Today, the Republic of Chile celebrates its Fiestas Patrias. The two-day festivity begins annually on September 18 to commemorate the proclamation of the First Governing Body of 1810, and the beginning of the […]
Isabel Cocker/The Santiago Times Staff SANTIAGO – The sea of faces, sat on the cold ground, gazed up at lines of photographs, names, dates, occupations which flickered past in a never-ending parade. The harsh red […]
SANTIAGO – Chilean President Michelle Bachelet has officially created a 740,000-square kilometer marine reserve around remote Easter Island, a move that will protect dozens of species found nowhere else. The move follows five years of […]
Isabel Cocker/The Santiago Times Staff CARACAS – Venezuela’s Minister for Exterior Jorge Arreaza has accused the U.N. Office for Human Rights on Monday of bringing false charges of human rights violations against his country, “without […]
LIMA – The celebrated Peruvian painter, Joan Alfaro has collaborated with Marca Peru and Lima Airport Partners to unveil a new exhibition in the arrivals hall of Jorge Chávez International Airport, with the aim of […]
By Maeve Allsup / Special to the Santiago Times SANTIAGO – Violent clashes broke out in downtown Santiago on Sunday in anticipation of the 44th anniversary of the 1973 military coup that brought Augusto Pinochet […]
CARACAS – Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro has announced his government will sell oil and other commodities in currencies other than the dollar, in a bid to weather U.S. sanctions on the embattled South American country. […]
NEW DELHI – A second grader was found dead outside an Indian school toilet with his throat slit, sparking outrage among parents who scuffled with police in Guragaon on Saturday. On Friday morning, the eight-year-old […]
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