Chile

FILE PHOTO: An activist talks to riot police officers during a protest in support of Mapuche communities members who have been incarcerated and on hunger strike, in Santiago, Chile August 14, 2020. REUTERS/Ivan Alvarado
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UN Human Rights team probes spike in tension in Chile`s restive Araucania

The OHCHR said in a communique that its team had visited the hospital in the regional capital Temuco where Celestino Cordova was being treated as well as prisons where at least 20 other Mapuche...

BHP to pay $840 million for early end to thermoelectric contract in Chile
Global Economy

BHP to pay $840 million for early end to thermoelectric contract in Chile

One of the greatest cruelties of an illness that has killed almost half a million people worldwide, is that many have died alone, lucky to bid a digital goodbye via a computer tablet or phone. Photo: Reuters
Coronavirus chronicle

Rare chance to say goodbye: Chilean hospital invites in Covid patients' families

A man wearing a protective face mask as a precaution against the spread of the coronavirus disease (Covid-19) rests in a public square in Valparaiso, Chile April 27, 2020/ Reuters
Coronavirus chronicle

Chile's top health official flaunts WHO guidance, says recovered Covid-19 patients immune

Police check people's paperwork in Santiago, Chile, March 27, 2020. Chile has adopted a "progressive quarantine" to help control the spread of the disease in the country.Xinhua Photo
Coronavirus chronicle

Chile registers 4,161 COVID-19 cases, 27 deaths

Colombian prison. File Photo: AFP via BSS
Coronavirus chronicle

Prison riot kills 23 in Colombia as Chile enforces virus curfew

Photo: Reuters
Coronavirus chronicle

Parents and children amid the deadly coronavirus

Demonstrators take part in a protest day in the Chilean calendar known as "Super Lunes", to protest against Chile's government and high living costs, in Concepcion, Chile March 2, 2020. REUTERS/Juan Gonzalez
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Violence resurges in protest-racked Chile, nearly 300 arrested

A man skates passing by a graffiti that reads “Revolution is possible” in Santiago on November 03, 2019. – Protesters angry about the cost of living and a yawning gap between rich and poor, compete creatively to put their discomfort into words and images in Chile’s capital
Global Economy

Was Marx right?

Debris believed by the Chilean Air Force to be from a Hercules C-130 military cargo plane that crashed this week and went missing, is seen in the Drake Passage or Sea of Hoces, Mid-Sea in this undated handout received on December 11, 2019/ Fuerza Aerea de Chile (Chilean Air Force) via Reuters
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Chilean Air Force finds debris believed to be from missing plane

Chile's President Sebastian Pinera looks on after delivering his annual address at the national congress building in Valparaiso, Chile June 1, 2019. File photo: Reuters
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Chile's President acknowledges security force abuses, says 'no impunity'

A demonstrator takes cover from a spray of water during a protest against Chile's government in Santiago, Chile, November 15, 2019/ Reuters
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Chile police stopped rescue workers helping dying protester

Getting to the other side. Photo: Getty Images via Bloomberg
Economy

Chile is a victim of its own success