SANTIAGO – Chilean President Michelle Bachelet has officially created a 740,000-square kilometer marine reserve around remote Easter Island, a move that will protect dozens of species found nowhere else. The move follows five years of […]
Isabel Cocker/The Santiago Times Staff CARACAS – Venezuela’s Minister for Exterior Jorge Arreaza has accused the U.N. Office for Human Rights on Monday of bringing false charges of human rights violations against his country, “without […]
LIMA – The celebrated Peruvian painter, Joan Alfaro has collaborated with Marca Peru and Lima Airport Partners to unveil a new exhibition in the arrivals hall of Jorge Chávez International Airport, with the aim of […]
SAO PAULO – The former chairman of the world’s largest meatpacker, whose testimony implicated Brazil’s president in corruption, turned himself in to police Sunday after the country’s Supreme Court ordered his arrest. Joesley Batista has […]
By Maeve Allsup / Special to the Santiago Times SANTIAGO – Violent clashes broke out in downtown Santiago on Sunday in anticipation of the 44th anniversary of the 1973 military coup that brought Augusto Pinochet […]
CARACAS – Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro has announced his government will sell oil and other commodities in currencies other than the dollar, in a bid to weather U.S. sanctions on the embattled South American country. […]
MONTEVIDEO – Uruguayan Vice president, and head of the Senate, Raul Sendic has stepped down after presenting his “indeclinable” resignation to the ruling coalition plenary and to president Tabare Vazquez, quelling what was becoming a […]
MIAMI, Fla. – Millions of Florida residents took refuge in shelter homes on Sunday as Hurricane Irma, one of the most powerful storms ever recorded in the Atlantic, hit the state with 130-mph (210 kph) […]
MEXCIO CITY – At least 369 people have died in Thursday’s 8.1 magnitude earthquake in Mexico, officials have confirmed. A government spokesman said nearly 100 people had been killed in the south-west state of Oaxaca […]
NEW DELHI – A second grader was found dead outside an Indian school toilet with his throat slit, sparking outrage among parents who scuffled with police in Guragaon on Saturday. On Friday morning, the eight-year-old […]
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