The proposal of the elected president of Chile, the leftist Gabriel Boric, that the private pension scheme disappear has found an echo in Mexico, which also has an individually funded system. The Retirement Fund Administrators (Afore) of Mexico have an “intimate resemblance” with the Pension Fund Administrators (AFP) that Boric promises to disappear, said Gustavo […]
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Boric says his future government in Chile will prioritize the Pacific Alliance
The elected president of Chile, Gabriel Boric, affirmed that in matters of foreign policy, his future government, which takes office on March 11, 2022, will prioritize the relationship with the Pacific Alliance, which the country integrates together with Colombia, Mexico and Peru. “We are going to give priority to the Pacific Alliance in the future. […]
Chile announces restrictions on 1.6 million people without a COVID vaccine booster
More than 1.6 million people who have not yet received their booster dose against COVID-19 in Chile will suffer mobility restrictions if they are not applied before January 1, health authorities announced. “Today there are 1’627,165 people who would be having their Mobility Pass disabled since January 1, since they have not received their booster […]
Chile awards green hydrogen projects with investments of US $ 1 billion
Updated on 12/27/2021 09:56 am The Chilean state agency Corfo awarded six projects to develop green hydrogen plants to companies such as Enel, Linde and Air Liquide, among others, to attract investments of about US $ 1 billion, the agency reported Monday. The facilities, which must come into operation no later than the end of […]
BofA: Chile’s Boric must reduce magnitude of tax reform
Updated on 12/24/2021 04:14 am Chile’s president-elect Gabriel Boric will be forced to moderate his plans, reduce the size of his tax reform and gradually advance on some spending problems, Bank of America analysts, including Sebastián Rondeau, Christian González, said in a note. and Gabriel Tenorio. Boric has shown some signs of restraint. Congressional restrictions […]
Chile, the first country in Latin America to vaccinate animals against COVID-19
Updated on 12/23/2021 04:00 pm Ten animals from the Buin Zoo, in Santiago de Chile, became the first in Latin America to be immunized against the COVID-19 with an experimental vaccine developed by the Zoetis veterinary laboratory. Three lions, three tigers, three pumas and an orangutan received the first dose of the vaccine on December […]
Chile will apply the fourth dose of the vaccine against COVID-19 from February
Chilean health authorities confirmed last Wednesday that they will apply the fourth dose of the COVID-19 vaccine from the fortnight of February next year. As La Tercera describes, the Minister of Health (Minsal), Enrique Paris, told Duna radio that “We have calculated that after February 15, we will start with the fourth dose, with selected […]
Young activists rewrite the rules of mining in Chile
Environmental activists like Constanza San Juan have been, at best, minor figures in Chile’s emergence as the dominant copper supplier in recent decades. Now she and others like her are rewriting the rules, with tens of billions of dollars in investments depending on the outcome. The 35-year-old, who has been fighting mining since Barrick Gold […]
The best and worst places to be this pandemic Christmas
The omicron variant is broadly halting the move toward normalization that characterized 2021, although reluctance to return to containment measures and other pre-vaccine restrictions is making the difference between the best and worst places to be during the pandemic. in December. The omicron variant, the most transmissible yet, is rapidly becoming dominant in the United […]
After Boric’s resounding triumph, the Chilean right seeks its direction
After the overwhelming triumph of the leftist Gabriel Boric, big questions are now being opened on the Chilean right, which is debating whether to take flight by establishing the conservative José Antonio Kast as the main leader of the opposition, second in the elections, or looking for new faces. “This unity around certain principles is […]