The Chilean Minister of Foreign Affairs, alberto van klaverenpresented this Monday its new Feminist Foreign Policy (PEF), which places Chili at the forefront by becoming the first country in South America to implement this strategy. “Although the concept can generate doubts and even suspicions, the truth is that the basis of a feminist foreign policy […]
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Chile redoubles efforts against death of marine fauna due to bird flu
On the white sands of Isla Damas, in the north of Chiliwhere tourists used to enjoy observing its rich faunatoday you only see sanitary brigades dressed in suits of biosecurity in search of dead animals. Fear of bird flu forced the closure of the Humboldt Penguin National Reservein the Coquimbo region, where Damas Island is […]
Chile and the keys to its new lithium and copper policy
The leftist government gabriel boricwhich seeks resources for its ambitious social programs in Chilioutlined a new mining policy that arouses special interest in the future of the lithiumalso called white gold, vital in the transition towards clean energy. Chile thus increased taxes on the exploitation of copper, a metal of which it is the world’s […]
The stages of the new Chilean constitutional process
With the installation of a 51-member council elected on May 7, the majority opposed to the left-wing government of gabriel boricbegins the decisive stage of the second attempt in the last two years to elaborate a new Constitution in Chili. A 61% of Chileans rejected a first initiative in September. The new proposal that will […]
Chileans “will not tolerate a new failure” in pension reform, warns Boric
Chilean President, gabriel boricwarned this Thursday that Chileans “they will not tolerate a new failure” in the pension reform and therefore urged the opposition to dialogue and advance “with speed, responsibility and commitment” in the processing of a law that solves what it considers a “national urgency”. During the speech of his second public account, […]
Chile finalizes gradual increase in the minimum wage
Fulfilling one of his main campaign promises, Chilean President Gabriel Boric raised the minimum wage in the southern country to 500,000 pesos, which must be achieved gradually until July 2024. The Government of Chile also ordered the delivery, as part of this package to alleviate the economic tensions of the population, of a subsidy to […]
Chilean Minister of Justice on insurers: “the sentences are fulfilled, whether they like it or not”
The Chilean Minister of Justice and Human Rights, Luis Cordero Vega, referred this Wednesday to the sentence that obliges the health insurers to pay a million-dollar debt to their clients for excessive charges, and stressed that in Chili “The sentences are fulfilled, whether they like it or not.” The minister expressed himself in this way […]
The Chilean economy falls 0.6% in the first quarter of 2023 and lasts longer than expected
The economy Chilean it fell 0.6% in the first quarter of 2023 compared to the same period of the previous year, less than expected, due to a downward incidence of trade and the agricultural-forestry sector, the Central Bank reported on Thursday. Personal services, on the other hand, were the main contribution to the rise, partially […]
Chile asks “all parties” in Ecuador to “respect the constitutional order”
the chancellor of ChiliAlberto van Klaveren, assured this Wednesday that the Government is following “with much attention” the crisis in Ecuador and asked “to all parties” from the country “respect the constitutional order” after the president’s decision William Lasso to dissolve the National Assembly in the midst of a political trial against him. “We are […]
The new Chilean Constitution could look a lot like the old one
The new one chilean constitution It could end up looking very similar to the current one, approved during the Augusto Pinochet dictatorship, but having a democratic origin, since the right will lead the process of writing a new text after its electoral victory on Sunday, another heavy defeat for the president. gabriel boric. The Republican […]