VATICAN CITY – The Vatican on Monday announced the resignation of its spokesman and his deputy, without giving any explanation. Pope Francis “has accepted the resignation of the director and deputy director of the press […]
SYDNEY – Australian police have smashed an international crime syndicate accused of stealing $1.2 million in luxury goods from homes. The five men and three women, all Chilean nationals, were arrested over the past month […]
SANTIAGO – The number of slums in Chile, one of Latin America’s most prosperous and stable economies, has nearly doubled since 2011, the government said, as an influx of migrants increasingly faces a lack of […]
PUEBLA, Mexico – The governor of the Mexican state of Puebla and her senator husband have died in a helicopter crash, the country’s president confirmed Monday. The aircraft carrying Puebla Gov Martha Erika Alonso and […]
PANDEGLANG, Indonesia – The death toll from a tsunami that struck coastal areas around the narrow strait between the islands of Java and Sumatra over the weekend has reached 429, with 154 others still missing, […]
SANTIAGO – McDonald’s Chile officially opened a one-of-its-kind restaurant in the South American country last week. The 83rd franchise of U.S. fast food giant is based on a modern platform “Hecho especialmente para ti” (“Made […]
SANTIAGO – Chile’s Speaker of the House of Deputies Maya Fernández-Allende has agreed to hold a special session during the second week of January with Mapuche leaders to discuss as violence in La Araucanía and […]
SANTIAGO – Chile’s President Sebastián Piñera has appointed General Mario Rozas as the new director of Carabineros following the dismissal of General Hermes Soto on Thursday after three videos of the force’s improper handling of […]
SANTIAGO – JetSMART, an ultra low-cost Chilean airline created by U.S. investment fund Indigo Partners, has begun flights to Argentina after obtaining an operating certificate from the Argentinian government. Having secured a certificate of exploitation […]
SANTIAGO – Argentine Mapuche leader Facundo Jones Huala was sentenced Friday to nine years and one day in jail by a Chilean court in Valdivia. The leader of the Mapuche community Pu Lof in Resistencia […]
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