Charly and Sandai, a Bengal tiger and a Bornean orangutan, both in danger of extinction, were vaccinated against the coronavirus as part of a unique experimental program in Latin America carried out by the Buin Zoo in Santiago de Chile. At 26 years old, Sandai is a unique orangutan in South America, with great potential […]
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The first six months of the unprecedented constituent convention of Chile
The convention in charge of drafting a new Constitution in Chile meets six months this Tuesday and is ready to choose its new president, after the end of the mandate of the Mapuche academic Elisa Loncón. Next, the milestones of the world’s first joint constituent body, which has the task of finishing drafting the new […]
Chile’s Constitutional Commission sets out to discuss the body of the new Magna Carta
The Constitutional Convention of Chile is heading to discuss this Tuesday the articles of the Magna Carta bequeathed by the dictatorship of Augusto Pinochet (1973-90) and that will be plebiscited this year during the term of the president-elect, the leftist Gabriel Boric. Installed chaotically on July 4, the Convention is the daughter of the social […]
Chile once again exceeds 10,000 active cases of COVID-19
Health authorities chilean reported this Sunday the detection of 1,921 new infections by Covid-19 nationwide, once again exceeding 10,000 active cases in a context of rebound after the end of the year celebrations. With this new report, the total number of people diagnosed with coronavirus in Chile amounts to more than 1.8 million since the […]
Boric’s triumph opens a new scenario in the relationship between Chile and Argentina
The triumph of the leftist Gabriel Boric in the recent presidential elections in Chile awakens several unknowns in Argentina on the future of the economic relationship between both countries and the South American regional integration process. The victory of Boric, who will succeed the conservative Sebastián Piñera in the Presidency of Chile from March, was […]
Arce talks by phone with Boric about the bilateral relationship Bolivia-Chile
Updated 12/30/2021 08:21 pm The President of Bolivia, Luis Arce, spoke by phone with the elected president of Chile, Gabriel Boric, on the importance of deepening the bilateral agenda between both countries, informed the Bolivian leader. “We had a pleasant telephone conversation with the brother president-elect of Chile, @gabrielboric, with whom we agreed on the […]
Latin America, awaiting the pension reform that Boric promises
Chile’s private pension model, which recently turned 41, is being strongly questioned, to the point that the president-elect, Gabriel Boric, promised to replace it with a public one, a decision that could generate a “domino effect” in some countries in the region with similar systems. Implanted by the Augusto Pinochet dictatorship (1973-1990) and devised by […]
Tacna farmers join forces to export oranges to Chile
The orange producers of the La Yarada-Los Palos border district joined forces to boost the entry of your product to the Chilean market. This initiative was born after the farmers participated in the so-called field schools of the National Service for Agri-food Health and Quality (Senasa). In Tacna, 1,053 small producers participated in 50 field […]
The ten challenges that Chile will have to face in 2022
Chile says goodbye to another particularly turbulent year with important pending tasks for 2022, including taking care of and completing the constituent process, facing the migration crisis on the northern border, tackling rising inflation or, in football terms, achieving qualification for Qatar 2022. Take care of the constituent process The social outbreak of 2019, the […]
Resilience to COVID: What is the reason for Chile’s success?
Chile may have clinched first place in Bloomberg’s COVID Resilience Rankings, but that doesn’t mean it’s letting its guard down, especially as the contagious omicron variant spreads around the world. The ranking is a monthly overview of where the virus is being handled most effectively and with the least social and economic disruption. It uses […]