Chile’s unemployment rate reached 12.3 percent in the July-September quarter, growing by 5.0 percent in 12 months, the National Institute of Statistics (INE) reported on Friday. INE’s data, collected in its National Employment Poll, indicate […]
BRASILIA – Brazil lost 4.9 million formal and informal jobs between February and April, during the arrival of the coronavirus pandemic, increasing the unemployment rate from 11.3% to 12.6% in just three months, the Institute […]
Ross Brown/The Santiago Times Staff SANTIAGO – The minister for Economy, Development, and Tourism, Lucas Palacios says he expects a “very significant drop” in Chile’s economy in May as the coronavirus has started to bite […]
SANTIAGO – Chile’s Ministry of Health on Sunday reported a total of 1,054 deaths from COVID-19, while the number of infected persons accumulated in the country is close to 100,000. Over the last 24 hours, […]
Chile sees anxiety and uncertainty among the country’s poorest as the coronavirus is spreading rapidly among more vulnerable communities, especially in the outskirts of Chilean cities, where social distancing is nearly impossible due to cramped […]
Marcelo Montecinos/The Santiago Times Staff While those that have lined up at the Civil Registry to get their codes, in order to be eligible for the latest help by government during this pandemic, will hopefully […]
GENEVA – The Americas will bear the brunt of an estimated 305 million job losses that the coronavirus pandemic will cause worldwide between April and June, the International Labour Organization (ILO) said on Wednesday. The […]
SANTIAGO – LATAM Airlines Group, the largest airline conglomerate in Latin America, has announced it is laying off as many as 1,400 employees from offices in Chile, Colombia, Ecuador and Peru, as a result of […]
SANTIAGO – The unemployment rate in Chile stood at 6.9% during the January-March mobile quarter of 2019, according to figures provided by the National Statistics Institute. Thus, according to the information collected by the National […]
SANTIAGO – The Chilean capital has been ranked 76th on the list of least stressful cities to live in the Americas region, according to the World’s Least and Most Stressful Cities index prepared by British […]
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