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Chile: Housing crisis in Valparaíso after devastating fires
Housing crisis in Valparaíso after devastating fires; Chileans now one step closer to absentee voting rights; Christian Democrats confirm support for president’s tax reform plan Housing crisis in...
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China/Latin America: Beyond copper?
A copper mine in Chuquicamata, Chile (March 1984) China buys Peru’s largest copper mine even as a decade of resource-led growth starts to come to an end; Chile and Peru must diversify as demand for...
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Chile: Bachelet proposes electoral reform
Bachelet proposes electoral reform; Nueva Mayoría and UDI clash; Chile weighs its options ahead of Hague dispute with Bolivia Bachelet proposes electoral reform This week President Michelle Bachelet...
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Chile: Labor movement marks May Day with Santiago march
Labor movement marks May Day with Santiago march; Bachelet moves to improve Chile’s air quality; Media battle over tax reform heats up Labor movement marks May Day with Santiago march On Thursday...
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Chile: UDI Party chooses new president
UDI Party chooses new president; Bachelet’s negatives on the rise; Piñera’s health reform legacy in dispute UDI Party chooses new president This week the conservative Independent Democratic Union...
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Chile: Students march, children fight
Violence followed a peaceful march by students on May 8, 2014 in Concepción, Chile. Thursday May 8 saw the first nationally-organised direct action by Chilean students for free and higher-quality...
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Chile: Artist destroys student debt
The ashes displayed as part of Tapia’s art installation The story is so absurd it is hard to believe. Two weeks ago, the 31-year-old visual artist Francisco Tapia known as Papas Fritas (Fried Potatoes)...
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Chile: HidroAysén – chronicle of an environmental victory foretold
Controversial HidroAysén project stalled by Chilean government; questions remain over Chile’s long-term energy strategy. #ChaoHidroAysén. For at least a week before the Chilean government’s final...
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Chile: World Cup fever
Much has been written recently about the cost of the World Cup or corruption in FIFA. In the midst of this it is easy to lose sight of the euphoria it has brought to Latin America. The region last...
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CHILE: Miners’ four-year anniversary of triumphant escape
Protagonist and hero, 4 years on: new film “The 33″ set for release 2015 Monday, 13th October 2014, marks exactly four years to the day “Los 33” (the 33 Chilean miners) were rescued from 700 metres...
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CHILE: Arrest of ex-military Pinochet aide Col. Cristián Labbé
Ex-military leader and former Pinochet bodyguard, Cristian Labbe Arrest, incarceration and bail of ex-military leader Colonel Labbé; part of ongoing human rights violation investigation; lifting the...
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CHILE: Former President Lagos calls for legalization of drugs
Former Chilean President and advocate for legalization of marijuana On the 7th of November 2014, former Chilean President Ricardo Lagos, currently a social democrat politician, called for a...
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CHILE: Prison for ex-military colonels guilty of torturing President’s father
Alberto and Michele Bachelet, 1972 21st November 2014 – two colonels who had been charged in July 2012 with the torture and subsequent death of President Michele Bachelet’s father have both been...
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CHILE: World’s largest telescope to be constructed in Atacama Desert
Above image: Helix Nebula (NGC 7293) was created from images obtained using the Wide Field Imager (WFI), an astronomical camera attached to an ESO telescope at the La Silla observatory in Chile. On...
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CHILE: Health Minister resigns over controversial abortion comments
Helia Molina, ex-Health Minister, Chile In a shockingly rapid escalation of events, on the 30th December 2014, the Chilean Health Minister (now ex-Minister) Helia Molina officially resigned from her...
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CHILE: Pablo Neruda’s death investigation reopened: was he poisoned?
On Wednesday, 21st January 2015, Rodrigo Lledó, head lawyer for Chile’s Human Rights Department, released the statement that they would be reopening the investigation into the country’s best-loved...
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CHILE: Bachelet calls for an end to universal ban on abortion
At the end of January, Chilean President Michele Bachelet officially drafted a bill to end the blanket ban on abortion that has recently seen a revival of controversy with the resignation of Helia...
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CHILE: Two Peruvian naval officers accused of spying for Chile
Ollanta Humala calling together his cabinet Last week, Military courts in Peru arrested two officers and are investigating a third for allegedly spying for historic rival Chile, according to Defense...
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CHILE: Volcán Villarrica’s spectacular eruption
Villarrica Volcano, early morning on March 3rd Villarrica in its dormant state Last week one of Chile’s most active, and most picturesque, volcanoes erupted for the first time in 24 years, the longest...
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CHILE: 26 dead, 125 missing in Atacama flooding disaster
Devastated northern region March 25th 2015 — 26 people have died, and a further 125 people are missing after mudflows and flash flooding in the Atacama Desert and surrounding region. It took only 20 mm...
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