SANTIAGO – Conservative Sebastián Piñera has won the first round with only 36 percent of the votes, but failed to reach the 50 percent required to become Chile’s president. The 67-year-old billionaire businessman, who was […]
CARACAS – Venezuelan authorities have arrested the acting president of its U.S.-based refiner Citgo and five of the subsidiary’s top executives on corruption accusations, the country’s chief prosecutor revealed on Tuesday. Reports said authorities arrested […]
HARARE – Zimbabwe’s President Robert Mugabe has resigned as president of Zimbabwe with immediate effect after 37 years in power, parliament speaker Jacob Mudenda has said. A letter from Mr. Mugabe said that the decision […]
SANTIAGO – Senator Alejandro Guillier arrived at the Audience Hall of La Moneda Palace early on Tuesday to hold a meeting with President Michelle Bachelet after the Sunday’s elections. The meeting took place in the […]
SANTIAGO – A Haitian immigrant has been hailed a hero after risking his own life by trying to catch this woman as she plunged from a ninth-floor flat in Chile. Video footage taken by neighbors […]
Boris van der Spek / The Santiago Times Staff SANTIAGO – With a very low turnout former-president Sebastián Piñera won the first round of the presidential elections in Chile. In the second, decisive round the […]
BUENOS AIRES – A U.S. Navy rescue crew from San Diego has joined the international search effort for a Argentine submarine and its 44 crew members missing for several days beneath the stormy southern Atlantic […]
SANTIAGO – Chileans voted in presidential elections to choose a successor to Michelle Bachelet. Eight candidates are standing, with conservative billionaire Sebastián Piñera seen as favourite to return to the post he held from 2010-14. […]
DHAKA – The prestigious Gusi Peace Award will be accorded to Asif A. Chowdhury, a leading businessman and CEO of Chowdhury Group in the Philippines capital Manila on Tuesday. Asif Chowdhury who is also the […]
The Santiago Times reports live from the streets of Santiago and the party offices of favourites Sebastián Piñera, Alejandro Guillier and Beatriz Sánchez […]
© Copyright 2025 - The Santiago Times