The Chilean Football Federation last month filed a complaint with world football's governing body claiming that Ecuador's Byron Castillo is in fact Colombian, and has falsified his age.
June 11, 2022His four-year term begins at a moment when a constituent assembly is drawing up a new constitution for the country to replace one adopted under Pinochet.
March 12, 2022The present Constitution in Chile was crafted in 1980 by people who were handpicked by the then military ruler ~ Augusto Pinochet. It opened the country to mining investments and allowed water rights to be bought and sold. Over time, Chile prospered by exploiting its natural resources ~ copper, coal, salmon and avocados.
January 4, 2022Chile’s early dalliance with neoliberalism also exposes how the latter requires extreme violence or ‘shocks’ — as Naomi Klein argues in The Shock Doctrine — to entrench itself. Klein traces how the massive upheaval the privatisation policies of neoliberal Chile triggered were only implemented under a draconian regime that rested on mass killings and torture which served as the ‘shock’ that allowed Chilean society to become more complaisant towards these radical economic changes.
December 28, 2021With a larger mandate than his predecessors, Boric represents the forces that don't belong to the dominant traditional political compact since the 1990s. He is the first candidate in the post-Pinochet era to have won after coming second in the first round. His victory is largely seen as a rebellion against elitism
December 25, 2021After winning the presidential primary in his left-wing coalition earlier this year, Boric declared: “Chile was the birthplace of neoliberalism, and it shall also be its grave!” Ahead of the run-off round, both Kast and Boric strove to win over the middle ground. History, as it turned out, tended to favour the latter. A couple of weeks before polling, credible documentary evidence emerged proving that Kast’s father had joined the Nazi party in Germany in 1942, eight years before emigrating to Chile.
December 23, 2021“We are a generation that has emerged in public life demanding that our rights be respected as rights and not treated like consumer goods. There continues to be justice for the rich and injustice for the poor, and we no longer will permit that the poor (to) keep paying the price of Chile’s inequality”.
December 22, 2021The total number of people who had been diagnosed with Covid-19 in the South American country reached 1,622,509.
August 8, 2021So far, 24,750,738 vaccine doses have been administered in the South American country.
July 31, 2021"We have carried out clinical studies in this country, which have reaffirmed the excellence of Chilean medical and scientific teams," Sinovac vice-president said
July 25, 2021With these figures, the country accumulated a total of 1,590,887 cases and 34,016 deaths.
July 14, 2021Chile has 1,576,336 confirmed COVID-19 cases, 33,238 deaths.So far, a total of 22,883,806 vaccine doses have been administered in the country.
July 9, 2021The 43-year-old woman has been in quarantine since her arrival in the country
June 25, 2021In the referendum, voters were asked to decide whether Chile needs a new constitution.
October 26, 2020The proposal seeks to complement the measures already announced by the government and to generate protection for formal, informal, independent, and unemployed workers.
April 30, 2020The protests were mostly peaceful, although there were clashes around the plaza after police tried to disperse protesters with tear gas and water-launch trucks, as the latter responded by throwing stones.
March 14, 2020It has been changed before by referendum, following a 1988 vote that paved the way for a return to democracy.
February 27, 2020