Tag: #Chile
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Antarctic Peninsula at warmest in decades: study
Santiago, Oct 3 (AFP/APP):The year 2020 is the hottest in the Antarctic Peninsula in the past three decades, a study by the University of Santiago de Chile out Friday found. Between January and August, temperatures reached between 2 and 3 degrees Celsius (35.6 and 37.4 degrees Fahrenheit) on the peninsula, which is the northernmost part…
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Unemployment in Chile Decreases, But Still Extremely High
Unemployment in Chile has decreased but it is still extremely high.
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Venezuela puts seven states, including Caracas, in virus quarantine
Caracas, March 16 (AFP/APP): Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro on Sunday ordered a “collective quarantine” in seven states, including the capital Caracas, from Monday to stem the spread of the new coronavirus pandemic. Elsewhere in Latin America, Argentina and Colombia were amongst several countries to announce new travel restrictions and El Salvador declared a state of…
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Chile quarantines 1,300 aboard two cruise ships
Santiago, March 15 (AFP/APP): Chile has quarantined more than 1,300 people aboard two cruise ships after an elderly Briton aboard one of them tested positive for the coronavirus, the health ministry announced Saturday. Both ships are cruising the Chilean fjords in Patagonia. The 85-year-old man showed symptoms of the virus after getting off the Silver…
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Rescuers search for Chilean plane missing near Antarctica
Punta Arenas, Chile, Dec 10 (AFP/APP): Rescue planes and ships on Tuesday searched the open sea between the southern tip of South America and Antarctica for a Chilean Air Force plane that went missing with 38 people aboard. The C-130 Hercules cargo plane vanished after departing an airbase in the southern city of Punta Arenas…
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Chile probes Eastern European interference in protests
Santiago, Dec 4 (AFP/APP): Chile is investigating “excessive internet traffic” that could signal that an Eastern European country stoked weeks of deadly unrest, Foreign Minister Teodoro Ribero said Tuesday. “Chilean international organisms are investigating whether or not there is direct international interference,” Ribero told reporters. “What we do know is that in the days after…
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Chile Simmers after another Night of Unrest
Santiago, Nov 27 (AFP/APP): Looters sacked a hotel and several supermarkets in Chile in another night of unrest as tensions flared in the crisis-hit South American country. The violence “is reaching levels not seen in Chile since the return of democracy” in 1990, Defense Minister Alberto Espina warned Congress in an appearance Wednesday. The flare-ups…
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‘Serious’ rights violations during Chile protests: Human Rights Watch
Santiago, Nov 27 (AFP/APP): Chile’s national police committed “serious human rights violations” as weeks of violent demonstrations across the South American country claimed 25 lives, Human Rights Watch said Tuesday in a report calling for reform of the force. HRW said the police, known as Carabineros, “committed serious human rights violations, including excessive use of…
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Chile police suspend use of birdshot against protesters
Santiago, Nov 20 (AFP/APP): Chile’s police said Tuesday they had suspended the use of birdshot during street protests amid an outcry over eye injuries suffered by more than 200 demonstrators. The decision was announced by the head of the Carabinero police, Mario Roza, after a month of protests over socio-economic inequality and other problems. Police…
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Protesters mark a month that shook Chile
Santiago, Nov 19 (AFP/APP): Stone-throwing Chilean demonstrators on Monday marked a month of furious, near daily street demonstrations that have roiled the country and signalled an overhaul of the country’s social and economic model. Chanting “Chile has woken up!”, around 3,000 demonstrators gathered in Santiago’s Plaza Italia, the epicenter of the protests which at one…