This day in history we feature Michelle Bachelet. The first female president of Chile was elected on this day in 2006. Trivia – Michelle Bachelet Verónica Michelle Bachelet Jeria is a Chilean politician who served as United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights from 2018 to 2022. She previously served as President of Chile from […]
Chile: The aftermath of a large star’s explosive death is seen in an image released by the European Southern Observatory, showing immense filaments of brightly shining gas that was blasted into space during the supernova. Before exploding at the end of its life cycle, the star is believed to have had a mass at least […]
The UAE is the eighth export market in the world for Chile with a weightage of 22 per cent Dubai: Chile is taking part in the ongoing Middle East’s leading annual F&B trade event, Gulfood 2022, with a strong contingent of 22 companies representing a range of food verticals from pulses to agribusiness, with the […]
A solar eclipse that lasted around two minutes plunged southern Chile and Argentina into darkness on Monday. Heavy rain had threatened to prevent thousands of star gazers in Chile from seeing the eclipse but at the last moment the clouds parted just enough for the phenomenon to be partially visible. In Argentine Patagonia, several families […]
An earthquake measuring 6.1 on the Richter scale jolted off the coast of Tacola, central Chile today. The German “GFZ” Center for Earth Sciences Research said that the quake occurred off the coast of central Chile, 10 kilometers below the surface of the earth. There were no reports of material or human losses, and no […]
Hundreds of people protested in Chile’s capital Santiago on Wednesday to demand the resignation of President Sebastian Pinera over police repression of the country’s social protests. Police fired tear gas and water cannon to keep around 500 protesters from approaching the Moneda presidential palace. The demonstrators blocked the capital’s main Alameda thoroughfare near the palace […]
Awash with multicolored posters, angry graffiti and other symbols of protest — metal shields, tear gas cartridges — Santiago’s Museum of Social Uprising is aiming to keep alive the memory of months of deadly demonstrations that have left a lasting mark on Chile. Months of demonstrations that left more than 30 people dead broke out […]
Polls have opened in Chile for a referendum on whether the Pinochet-era constitution should be torn up and replaced by a fresh charter drafted by citizens, a key demand in protests that erupted last year. Fierce anti-government demonstrations over inequality and elitism in one of Latin America’s most advanced economies broke out last fall and […]
