SANTIAGO – Chile now ranks number two worldwide in the average number of daily cases per million inhabitants and surpassed the countries hardest hit by the pandemic, it emerged on Wednesday. According to figures compiled […]
Marcelo Montecinos/The Santiago Times Staff Covid-19 has separated the world, friends and family members, and now communities in its spread. The separation process has almost reached hysterical levels. “We have to maintain the Chinese Wall […]
SANTIAGO – Chile’s Heath Ministry on Tuesday reported 77,961 people have been infected with the novel coronavirus and 806 have died from the disease in the country. In the past 24 hours ending 9 p.m. […]
Marcelo Montecinos/The Santiago Times Staff SANTIAGO – In a not-entirely unexpected move, LATAM Airlines, the largest airline in Latin America, declared bankruptcy in the United States today. This on the heels of the bankruptcy of […]
Marcelo Montecinos/The Santiago Times Staff SANTIAGO – Sebastián Piñera has announced a new law that cuts remunerations and salaries for parliamentarians, the President, ministers, mayors, governors and other government officials. In a show of good […]
SANTIAGO – The largest airline in the region, LATAM has filed for bankruptcy in the United States, following a slump in business amid the COVID-19 pandemic. “LATAM Airlines Group S.A. and its affiliates in Chile, […]
WASHINGTON – The White House on Monday brought forward by two days restrictions on travel to the United States from Brazil that were announced after the Latin American country became the world’s No 2 coronavirus […]
CARACAS – The first of five Iranian tankers carrying fuel for gasoline-starved Venezuela entered the country’s exclusive economic zone on Saturday, despite a US official’s warning that Washington was considering a response to the shipment. […]
SANTIAGO – Chile’s healthcare system is under strain and “very close to the limit,” President Sebastian Piñera admitted on Sunday, as the number of confirmed novel coronavirus infections approaches 74,000 after a rapid increase in […]
LIMA – Peru has extended its state of emergency and a nationwide lockdown to fight the coronavirus pandemic until the end of June, marking one of the longest periods of mandatory isolation in the world. […]
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