SANTIAGO – Police have arrested a former secret service agent sentenced to jail for human rights abuses during the military government led by General Augusto Pinochet. Reimer Kohlitz was detained during an anti-drugs operation near […]
SANTIAGO – This weekend, a top Venezuelan opposition lawmaker requested Chile’s protection after Venezuela’s high court announced he would be prosecuted on charges punishable by a decade in prison. Freddy Guevara, vice president of the […]
Daniel Gutman BUENOS AIRES – Argentina does not have the mining tradition of other South American countries, but this could begin to change. The government wants to draw 30 billion dollars in foreign investment to tap […]
SANTIAGO – The Pan American Sports Organization, or PASO, has chosen Chilean capital, Santiago, to host the 2023 Games. The unanimous decision was made during its general assembly in Prague. Toronto hosted the 17th edition […]
SANTIAGO – A group of jailed Mapuche activists have resumed their hunger strike after being held without trial for almost 18 months as the Chilean government has “failed to fulfill its promise to free them”. […]
SANTIAGO – The seven million inhabitants of the Chilean capital have a new underground metro line and the promise of another that will be added in the second half of 2018, all with an ecological […]
LIMA – FIFA has provisionally suspended Peru captain Paolo Guerrero for 30 days after he failed an anti-doping test, the Peruvian Football Federation announced Saturday. Guerrero was tested after Peru’s World Cup qualifier against Argentina […]
BUENOS AIRES – Argentina and Peru are seeking to resolve a dispute stemming from Peru’s decision to apply anti-dumping tariffs on imports of Argentine biodiesel a year ago, Peruvian President Pedro Pablo Kuczynski said on […]
BUENOS AIRES – Following orders from Federal Judge Ariel Lijo, Argentine Coast Guard officers placed Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner’s second vice president Amado Boudou under arrest early Friday for illicit enrichment. Judicial authorities found Boudou’s […]
MEXICO CITY – Gunmen burst into a clinic in the Mexican city of Puebla on Saturday and killed notorious criminal Jesus Martin, known as El Kalimba, while he was on the operating table. Police said […]
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