Today: September 12, 2024
Today: September 12, 2024

Chile

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Chile's Boric calls on Venezuela to guarantee fair vote

Chilean President Gabriel Boric urged Venezuela's government to guarantee fair elections and respect the country's Sunday vote during a meeting with reporters on Thursday.

Chile's Boric calls on Venezuela to guarantee fair vote
Business|Economy|Environment|Technology

Rio Tinto, BYD and LG Energy show interest in Chile's Altoandinos lithium site

Twelve companies including global miner Rio Tinto and Chinese electric vehicle maker BYD have submitted proposals to extract lithium in Chile's Altoandinos salt flats, the state

Rio Tinto, BYD and LG Energy show interest in Chile's Altoandinos lithium site
Business|Economy

Chile's Codelco says output falls 8% in first half of 2024

Chile's Codelco, the world's largest copper producer, on Friday posted a 8.4% drop in output for the first half of 2024 compared with the

Chile's Codelco says output falls 8% in first half of 2024
News|World

In Chile, justice eludes victims of Catholic clergy sex abuse years after the crisis exploded

A clergy sex abuse scandal involving Chile’s most notorious pedophile, the priest Fernando Karadima, shook the South American country in 2010 in a way never seen in Latin America

In Chile, justice eludes victims of Catholic clergy sex abuse years after the crisis exploded
Business|News|World

Inspired by llamas, the desert and Mother Earth, these craftswomen weave sacred textiles

In the middle of the Atacama Desert, in northern Chile, the colors and patterns of Aymara textiles are inspired by the land that is considered sacred

Inspired by llamas, the desert and Mother Earth, these craftswomen weave sacred textiles
Sports

TV equipment stolen from Pan Am Games' opening ceremony site in Chile, boosting security concerns

Television crews at the Pan American Games had equipment stolen this week from the compound of the National Stadium, the site of Friday’s opening ceremony, heightening concerns about crime at the tournament hosting over 6,800 athletes

TV equipment stolen from Pan Am Games' opening ceremony site in Chile, boosting security concerns
Sports

Santiago opens Pan American Games with nod to the Indigenous, poetry and memory of dictatorship

The opening ceremony of Chile’s first Pan American Games was not only a celebration of athletes, Indigenous peoples and poetry, but laid bare the politically divided country’s scars from the military dictatorship of Gen. Augusto Pinochet from 1973 until 1990

Santiago opens Pan American Games with nod to the Indigenous, poetry and memory of dictatorship
Business

Exclusive-Codelco workers warn against job cuts, do not rule out strike -union head

Workers for Chile's Codelco will not rule out a strike if the state-owned copper company enacts job cuts to counteract a slump in production, which has reached

Exclusive-Codelco workers warn against job cuts, do not rule out strike -union head
Sports

Not so fast! Wrong distance means no world record in women's walk race at Pan Am Games

Organizers of the Pan American Games say the times of the women's 20 kilometers walk race were annulled due to “a measuring problem.”

Not so fast! Wrong distance means no world record in women's walk race at Pan Am Games
World

Chile's Boric, after condemning Israel over Gaza, to raise concerns with Biden

Chilean President Gabriel Boric, who this week condemned Israel's military operations in Gaza and recalled his envoy to Israel, on Thursday said he planned to discuss some "

Chile's Boric, after condemning Israel over Gaza, to raise concerns with Biden
Business

Chile mining body says new lithium projects needed beyond SQM, Albemarle

The head of one of Chile's top mining associations on Tuesday urged the government to speed up efforts to expand the lithium industry

Chile mining body says new lithium projects needed beyond SQM, Albemarle
World

Protest at Chile's lithium salt flats snarls roads to SQM, Albemarle

A protest by several hundred people in northern Chile on Wednesday blocked access to the Atacama salt flat, the world's largest lithium deposit where domestic producer SQM and U.S

Protest at Chile's lithium salt flats snarls roads to SQM, Albemarle
World

Chilean government partners with Google to launch Asia-Pacific fiber optic link

The Chilean government announced a partnership with Alphabet's Google on Wednesday to build the first undersea fiber-optic cable between South America and Asia Pacific.

Chilean government partners with Google to launch Asia-Pacific fiber optic link
Environment|News|World

Survivors of Chile wildfires search through debris as death toll reaches 122

Volunteers in central Chile are trying to remove charred metal, broken glass and other debris in neighborhoods destroyed by forest fires that have killed at least 122 people in densely populated areas over the past three days

Survivors of Chile wildfires search through debris as death toll reaches 122
Environment|News|Science|World

How climate change contributes to wildfires like Chile's

At least 112 people have been killed by wildfires in central Chile

How climate change contributes to wildfires like Chile's
Environment|News|World

Over 300 people are still missing as wildfires in Chile's deadliest disaster in years are easing

More than 300 people are still missing as wildfires that ravaged central Chile for several days and killed 123 people appear to be burning themselves out

Over 300 people are still missing as wildfires in Chile's deadliest disaster in years are easing
News|World

Illegally adopted during Chile's dictatorship, they're now reuniting with biological families

Romina Cortés couldn’t pronounce her sister’s last name

Illegally adopted during Chile's dictatorship, they're now reuniting with biological families
Entertainment|News|Political|World

Chilean court rules death of poet Pablo Neruda days after 1973 coup should be reinvestigated

An appeals court says the death of Nobel laureate Pablo Neruda days after Chile's 1973 coup should be reinvestigated

Chilean court rules death of poet Pablo Neruda days after 1973 coup should be reinvestigated
World

Chile partially pulls Google data center permit, seeks tougher environmental checks

A Chilean environmental court partially reversed a permit allowing Google to build a data center in the country on Tuesday, asking the U.S. company to revise its application to

Chile partially pulls Google data center permit, seeks tougher environmental checks
Business

Inside a copper output plunge at No. 1 global producer Codelco

Beneath the world's largest open-pit copper mine in Chile lies a tunnel complex filled with dust so dense that machines frequently

Inside a copper output plunge at No. 1 global producer Codelco
Business

Women still 'woefully underrepresented' in Chile business, economics -Yellen

U.S.

Women still 'woefully underrepresented' in Chile business, economics -Yellen
Business

Yellen visits US lithium site in Chile, eyes progress on green transition

U.S.

Yellen visits US lithium site in Chile, eyes progress on green transition
Health|News|World

50 people are injured by a 'strong movement' on a plane traveling from Australia to New Zealand

Officials say at least 50 people have been injured by what they described as a “strong movement” on a Chilean plane traveling from Sydney to Auckland, New Zealand

50 people are injured by a 'strong movement' on a plane traveling from Australia to New Zealand
Business

Chile opens lithium salt flats for investment, saves two for state control

Chile's government on Tuesday opened up more than two dozen lithium salt flats to private investment, while reserving the prolific Atacama and Maricunga deposits for state

Chile opens lithium salt flats for investment, saves two for state control
Business|News|World

Copper output at Chile's Codelco set to rise this year, CESCO says

Chile's state-run copper miner Codelco is poised to improve production this year and begin to climb from its lowest dip in a quarter century,

Copper output at Chile's Codelco set to rise this year, CESCO says

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