Kast conceded defeat on Sunday with Boric holding a sizable lead – at around 55% to 45% — with more than two-thirds of the votes counted. Boric, 35, has pledged to expand Chile’s social programs, nationalize the pension system and raise government revenue through taxes on the massive mining companies …
Read More »A socialist or the son of a Nazi? The choice facing Chile this weekend
Nineteen million Chileans will head to the polls on Sunday to vote in one of the most polarizing and dramatic presidential elections Latin America has seen in recent times. After years of protests against inequality and the ongoing constitutional assembly as a backdrop, this election will mark a major shift …
Read More »Union declares strike in world’s LARGEST copper mine in Chile after labor negotiations fail
The mine’s Union No 1 said that 2,164 of its members, or 99,5% of those who had voted, had chosen to reject a final contract offer, and that it had approved the strike. “The resounding result once against demonstrates that… our ranks believe that this offer doesn’t contain any progress …
Read More »Chile ‘accidentally’ issues NATIONWIDE tsunami & evacuation warning only meant for Antarctic base after 7.0 quake
The strongest of over half a dozen jolts struck South Shetland Islands some 216 kilometers northeast of Chile’s O’Higgins scientific base at 8:36pm, while another 5.8 quake shook the Chile-Argentina border region close to the capital Santiago around 30 minutes later. While the warning was only meant for the coastal regions …
Read More »6.2 magnitude quake hits off Chile coast – USGS
The jolt occurred some 157.4 km (97.8 mi) to the south-east of Talca, a city of some 200,000 people south of the capital Santiago, late on Saturday. There has been no tsunami alert issued as a result of the quake. Some 10 million people might have felt the shaking, according …
Read More »Chile’s referendum rejecting the Pinochet-era constitution shows that the world is entering a new, anti-neoliberal age
On Sunday, almost exactly a year after protests over inequality erupted in the country, Chileans voted in a landslide to adopt a new constitution that will ditch the one enshrined in 1980 under the military dictatorship of General Augusto Pinochet. As Robert Packenham and William Ratliff wrote in a 2007 …
Read More »WATCH: Church goes up in flames & COLLAPSES as Chile anniversary rallies escalate into clashes and looting
The protest in the capital of Chile erupted in scuffles with police and looting of supermarkets on Sunday evening. Masked mobs firebombed a police headquarters and church later in the day. While firefighters and even some of the protesters tried to save the Iglesia de la Asunción, its spire eventually collapsed. “Those who carry …
Read More »The US state Department said the involvement of Russia to riots in Chile
The U.S. Department of state said that he found clear signs of Russia’s influence in social media on the riots in Chile. This is stated on the Agency’s website. “We can see clear signs that people use disputes [in social networks] and distort them <…> instead, to allow Chilean citizens …
Read More »In Chile overturned bus with passengers: dozens of dead and wounded
The injured were taken to hospital. 20 people suffered serious injuries. At least 11 people died in a bus accident on the road in Central Chile. Another 20 people were injured. About it reports TV channel Telesur, citing local officials. According to the channel, the accident occurred in the araucanía …
Read More »Trauma: fear and tin come from Chile (TRAILER)
Director Lucio A. Rojas, known for the films “dawn of the zombies” and “the Way” is its grim and bloody work called “Trauma” (Trauma). It is unlikely that this picture has something to the same tape Dario Argento, but there is also a severed head. As well as lesbians, home …
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