Since the progressive Gabriel Boric led the student marches in favor of gratuity until this Friday he arrives at the La Moneda presidential palace as the youngest president in Chilean history, only a decade will have passed. A meteoric path that has always piloted the same idea: to combat inequalities in Chile by ending the […]
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Boric bets on a feminist government in Chile
Gabriel Boric is close to ordinary people who come to him to make requests or wish him success in the challenging task he will take on on Friday, when he becomes Chile’s youngest modern-day president. His, affirms the still leftist deputy, will be a “feminist government”, for which he appointed a cabinet in January in […]
Boric, referent of a new left in Latin America?
He does not skimp on criticism of the Bolivarian regimes, but he is not condescending to the center-left either: the future president of Chile, the progressive Gabriel Boric, travels in a little explored territory in the region, which some experts are already venturing to baptize as a new left Latin American. “If Chile was the […]
Chile’s mining production falls 6.3% in January due to lower activity
According to the National Institute of Statistics (INE) of Chile, lmining production fell 6.3% in January compared to the same month in 2021 due to lower activity in metal mining. The entity of the southern country highlighted that the production in the metal mining fell 8.1% “as a result of a drop in the extraction […]
Gabriel Boric: complex scenario awaits the next Chilean president
The elected president of Chile, Gabriel Boric, who will assume power next Friday, will begin his government in the framework of the most complex political and economic situation experienced by his country since the return to democracy in 1990. Boric, 36, a deputy for the leftist Broad Front, is one of several former university leaders […]
The “controversial” inheritance that Piñera leaves Boric
The Chilean president, Sebastián Piñera, twice president of his country, says goodbye to power after four years marked by the social outbreak, the management of the pandemic, the economic crisis, the discussion of a new Constitution, the conflict in Araucanía and an unprecedented migration crisis. The president arrived at La Moneda in 2017 at a […]
Mining: Environmental Commission in Chile approved the nationalization and put an end to concessions
Updated on 03/06/2022 10:57 am Yesterday, the Commission on the Environment and Economic Model of the Chilean Constitutional Convention voted on 12 proposals related to mining exploitation and property in Chile, submitted by conventional parties or through popular initiatives, advancing towards the nationalization of mining companies once the future Magna Carta is approved. The newspaper […]
Three decades later, Tompkins’ dream of a natural Patagonia lives on in southern Chile
The American billionaire Douglas Tompkins dedicated his fortune three decades ago to create a reserve protected from humans in southern Chile. Today his dream is an environmental treasure governed almost without interference by nature. Between rugged mountains and deep valleys dominated by the wind, the Patagonia of Chile still maintains its wild essence thanks to […]
Chile places US$2 billion in 20-year debt linked to sustainability
Updated on 03/02/2022 07:29 pm Chile has placed a $2 billion unsecured 20-year sustainability-linked bond (SLB) that will be earmarked for general government purposes, the first debt of its kind from a sovereign issuer, reported IFR, a Refinitiv financial service. Chile established a VMS framework for supply, setting targets on two key indicators: absolute greenhouse […]
Experts predict more inflation and a blow to savings in Chile due to the Russian invasion of Ukraine
Although the Chilean economy is not fully exposed to the Russian and Ukrainian markets, the country is bracing itself for a severe inflationary hit due to the war in Eastern Europe due to its dependence on imports of basic materials such as oil and wheat. The global rise in the barrel of crude oil will […]