The Prosecutor’s Office of the Biobío region, south of Chiliopened this Thursday an ex officio investigation into a foundation linked to the former president Michelle Bachelet for allegedly receiving irregular public aid. The Public Ministry is specifically investigating the transfer last December of about 380 million Chilean pesos (about 465,000 dollars) to the Horizonte Ciudadano […]
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Government of Chile slightly lowers its growth forecast for 2023
The government of Chili lowered this Wednesday by one tenth its growth forecast for the economy for 2023 up to 0.2% and forecast that average inflation will reach 7.8% year-on-year amid the adjustment of local activity after the rapid post-pandemic recovery. By 2024, the Executive expects an increase in gross domestic product (GDP) of 2.5%while […]
Boric will make his first European tour with lithium and foreign investment as axes
The President of Chile, Gabriel Boric, will begin his first tour of Europe next Wednesday, a trip with a high political, economic and business content that will take him to Spain and France and which will have its zenith in Brussels with participation in the first summit in eight years between the European Union and […]
ECLAC: Latin America is below its potential in the lithium industry
Latin America and the Caribbean falls short of its potential to become a key player in the lithium despite its large reserves, while facing challenges to take advantage of the limited “window of opportunity” offered by the attractive industry, said Thursday the ECLAC. In a study, the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean […]
Greenhouse emissions are ‘at an all-time high’, say scientists
He global warming caused by man continues to increase at a “unprecedented pace” because greenhouse gas emissions are “at their highest point” in history, warned a team of fifty scientists. The article with the results obtained has been published in the Earth System Science Data magazine, where scientists, among them the Minister of the Environment […]
Valparaíso, from a patrimonial jewel to a city in decline and abandoned
Twenty years after being declared a World Heritage Site by the Unescothe Chilean city of Valparaisoknown as “the jewel of the Pacific” and a former bohemian hotbed, today it sports a decadent atmosphere, reflecting a city struck by poverty and abandoned to its fate. In Plaza Echaurren, its historical embryo and heart of the city, […]
Salar de Maricunga, is the water or lithium in the second largest reserve in the world
Located in the heart of the Atacama desert, in the foothills of the foothills that ascends to 6,000 meters of the impressive volcano “The Eyes of the Salty”on the border with Argentina, the Maricunga salt flat is one of many landscapes of Chili that takes your breath away for its beauty. A pristine space, only […]
Chile, the regional example that faces its mental health crisis without complexes
A president who speaks openly about his tobsessive compulsive disorder (TOC), the largest prevention program for suicide of Latin America or the unprecedented protocol of a well-known mall: Chili takes the regional lead and faces its crisis of self without complexes and in a transversal mannermental avalanche. It is estimated that one in four Chileans […]
UNESCO will evaluate Valparaíso in September, after 20 years as a World Heritage Site
The Unesco will review in September the state of conservation of the historic center of Valparaisodeteriorated due to the lack of maintenance of numerous buildings emblematic, revealed the aforementioned institution on the eve of this Sunday marking the 20th anniversary of its declaration as World Heritage. According to officials from the United Nations Educational, Scientific […]
Chile’s mining production falls 9.2% in May, due to lower copper activity
The mining production of Chile, the world’s largest producer of copperfell 9.2% in May over the same month last year, due to lower extraction and processing of the red metal, according to official data. The National Institute of Statistics (INE) reported on Friday that the monthly drop is a consequence of “a decrease in the […]