Updated 11/27/2021 04:13 pm The National Research and Development Agency of Chile (ANID) launched the National Doctorate Scholarship contest, academic year 2022, which aims to financially support doctoral studies in all areas of knowledge taught by Chilean universities, according to the National Program of Scholarships and Educational Loans (Pronabec) of the Ministry of Education (Minedu). […]
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Chile expands vaccination against COVID-19 for minors from the age of three
Updated on 11/25/2021 05:21 pm Chile announced this Thursday that it will begin to vaccinate against the COVID-19 to children from the age of three, in a new expansion of the vaccination program in the country, where already more than 90% of the target population is immunized with the full schedule. The Chilean Public Health […]
Chilean deputies approve equal marriage, only the Senate is missing
Chilean deputies approved a bill that allows same-sex couples to marry and adopt children, the penultimate step for equal marriage, already approved by the Senate, to become law. Of the 133 deputies present, 101 voted in favor, 30 against and two abstained. The vote came four months after the Senate approved equal marriage and now […]
Outside the capital: Kast’s right-wing speech catches on in the north and south of Chile
At the geographic extremes of Chile, which grapple with severe problems such as illegal immigration across the desert or a longstanding indigenous conflict over land ownership, the law and order discourse of conservative candidate José Antonio Kast made a deep impression. The hard-right candidate almost doubled the votes of the leftist candidate Gabriel Boric in […]
Chile’s political future could hinge on enigmatic Alabama-based economist
Chile is gearing up for a polarized presidential runoff next month between a 35-year-old leftist former student leader and an ultra-conservative who has vowed to crack down on crime. But perhaps the most influential actor in the December 19 head-to-head showdown, analysts say, is a NASCAR motorsport enthusiast who lives in Alabama. In Sunday’s vote, […]
Chile’s shift to the right benefits beaten tycoons
Updated 11/23/2021 01:21 am The victory of a conservative candidate in the first round of Chile’s presidential elections is giving some of the country’s wealthiest families a breather after two years of political turbulence. This is the case of the billionaire of the retail and real estate sector Horst Paulmann. Shares in Chilean retail company […]
The apparent paradox between Kast’s success in the first round and those who voted for a left-wing Constituent Assembly
Many questions remained in the air after the agitated Chilean electoral day. One of them is how it is explained that the candidate with the greatest support in this first round (27.91% of the votes) has been the right-wing Jose Antonio Kast at a time when, supposedly, Chile had been turning to the left with […]
Chile’s Stock Exchange experiences its biggest rise in 13 years after the elections
The bag of Chile on Monday experienced its highest rise in the last 13 years, with 9.69% that led to its main indicator, the Selective Stock Price Index (IPSA), to 4,780.91 points, on the day after the first round of the elections. presidential. According to the statistics managed by the local press, this is its […]
After two years of social unrest, Chileans favor Kast’s order proposal
After two years of street protests and the election of a body with a majority on the left to rewrite the Constitution, Chileans surprised analysts, markets and even themselves on Sunday night. The results of the first electoral round showed that voters favored the hard-right presidential candidate and gave important margins to the conservatives in […]
Kast and Boric start the race for the center ahead of the ballot in Chile
With an abstention of 53% and more than 30% of the electorate opting for more moderate options, the candidates who will compete for the Chilean Presidency in December, the far-right José Antonio Kast and the leftist Gabriel Boric, begin the race for key voters on Monday to get to La Moneda: the political center. The […]