SANTIAGO – President Sebastián Piñera has appointed Andrés Couve Correa as the first Secretary of State to head Chile’s new Ministry of Science, Technology, Knowledge and Innovation. The 49-year-old biologist, who is known to have […]
PANAMA CITY – United States presidents tend to receive their fair share of honors, but Donald Trump may want to ignore his latest one. A newly discovered amphibian that buries its head in the sand […]
SANGTIAGO – An earthquake measuring 6.2 degrees on the Richter scale struck Chile’s Easter Islands in the South Pacific Ocean on Wednesday, U.S. and Chilean seismic centres reported, while an ensuing tsunami was ruled out. […]
LIMA – Around 395,000 Venezuelans have applied for a Temporary Stay Permit (PTP) in Peru, National Migration Superintendent Roxana del Aguila announced Monday. The PTP, created by Peru’s current government, allows foreigners to work, study […]
SANTIAGO – Over 60 people arrived in Santiago de Chile from Venezuela on Tuesday, in a special plane of the Chilean Air Force (FACH), after voluntarily leaving the South American country hit by a massive […]
BARCELONA – Lionel Messi claimed a record fifth Golden Shoe award on Tuesday for finishing last season as the top scorer in Europe. Argentina’s soccer star scored 34 goals in 68 games for Barcelona, putting […]
BUENOS AIRES – The government of Argentina has authorized the state company YPF to export natural gas to the company Colbún in Chile, for up to 1.5 million cubic meters per day from the Neuquén […]
SAO PAULO – The Brazilian Foreign Ministry has confirmed that it had called off invitations sent to Cuban president Miguel Diaz-Canel and his Venezuelan counterpart, Nicolas Maduro, for the inauguration of President-elect Jair Bolsonaro, local […]
CARACAS – A study carried out by economists Dany Bahar and Douglas Barrios, from Harvard University, reveals that at least 8.2 million Venezuelan citizens would leave during 2019 from the borders of their country to […]
WASHINGTON – The United States Department of Homeland Security (DHS) will investigate the death of a migrant girl who died after being detained at a US Border Patrol station, a senior official said Friday. The […]
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