Updated on 07/01/2022 02:21 pm The Chilean justice rejected on Friday, due to being out of date, a protection appeal presented this week by a group of opposition deputies who sought to stop a tender promoted by the government to auction new lithium contracts. The Santiago Appeals Court said that the tender was known in […]
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Chile’s copper export value rises 21.9% in December and jumps 40.6% in the year
Updated on 07/01/2022 09:21 am The value of Chilean copper exports rose in December amid the strong performance of global copper prices, the Central Bank of Chile reported. The valuation of shipments of the red metal rose 21.9% year-on-year to US $ 4.914 million in the twelfth month, while in 2021 it reached a total […]
Boric has the opportunity to reconfigure Chile (and to the Latin American left)
By Shannon O’Neil Leaders of the Latin American left celebrated the election of Gabriel Boric in Chile in December, while investors fell back, causing the country’s currency and stock market to crash. However, Boric has the opportunity to surprise both sides, charting a different left political path. Instead of selling the economic populism of Argentina […]
The Government of Mexico agrees with the president-elect of Chile on a future “strategic alliance”
Updated on 06/01/2022 04:25 pm The government of Mexico announced that it agreed with the president-elect of Chile, Gabriel Boric, establish a “strategic alliance” between the two countries once the left-wing politician takes office in March. The announcement was made by the Foreign Ministry in a statement on the content of the visit of its […]
Chile will apply the fourth dose of the vaccine against COVID-19 as of January 10
Chile announced this Thursday that it will begin to apply the fourth dose of the COVID-19 vaccine next Monday to immunosuppressed people and from February 7 to those over 55 who have completed six months since their previous injection. “The new omicron variant is expanding rapidly throughout the world and, although to a much lesser […]
Chile’s thirsty copper mines to increase seawater use
Updated on 06/01/2022 04:32 am There is a glimmer of hope in a new report that predicts an increase in water use by Chile’s huge copper industry: most of it will come from the sea rather than reducing inland supplies. While the mines at the largest copper producer are looking for ways to use less […]
Constituent of Chile elects María Elisa Quinteros as its new president
The epidemiologist and academic Maria Elisa Quinteros was elected after a ninth round of voting as the new president of the body in charge of drafting a new Constitution in Chile, which will replace the one inherited from the dictatorship of Augusto Pinochet (1973-1990). With 78 votes out of a total of 154, Quinteros will […]
The Chilean constituent will try this Wednesday to unblock the election of its president
The convention in charge of drafting a new Constitution in Chile will try again this Wednesday to unblock the election of its new president, after postponing the votes after a marathon day of more than 18 hours that ended in the early hours of the morning without any candidate obtaining the most. After a session […]
Chilean lithium shows challenges on the path to clean energy
Updated on 05/01/2022 03:23 am Growing opposition to new lithium contracts in Chile is the latest indication of how difficult it will be for the world to produce the building blocks of the clean energy transition. In the last months of his mandate, the Government of the President Sebastian Piñera is about to grant new […]
Left-wing deputies present judicial appeal to stop the tender for new lithium contracts in Chile
Updated on 04/01/2022 04:25 pm A group of Chilean left-wing deputies presented before the courts a protection appeal to stop the bidding of contracts for the operation of lithium promoted by the government, in which the world’s two largest light metal producers are in the running. Lawmakers from the center-left opposition party PPD presented the […]