Eager for change, Chile faces long road to new constitution
The fireworks and street celebrations are over in Chile, and now many months of hard work and uncertainty loom for a population impatient for change….
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Chile sees less than 1,000 daily cases of COVID-19 for 1st time since May
Chile registered 922 new cases of the novel coronavirus (COVID-19) in the past 24 hours, marking the first time since May that the number of…
Celebrations as Chile approves historic constitutional reform
SANTIAGO – The referendum in Chile was held on Sunday with a resounding result in favor of reforming the constitution. After last year’s social protests,…
Former U.S. citizen sentenced in Chile for shooting at protesters
A Chilean court convicted and sentenced a former U.S. citizen on Sunday to 11 years in prison for firing a gun last year into a…
Chileans vote in historic referendum to reform the constitution
SANTIAGO – Polling stations opened in Chile on Sunday for a historic referendum on whether to change a dictatorship-era constitution seen as underpinning the nation’s…
Chilean court signs agreement to publish the Constitution in English
Gonzalo Díaz SANTIAGO – María Luisa Brahm, president of the constitutional court, this week signed a convention with the Comparative Constitutions Project for the Chilean…
‘All steps being taken to guarantee vote of all Chileans abroad,’ says Chancellor Allamand
Marcelo Montecinos SANTIAGO – Andres Allamand, the Minister of Foreign Relations, announced that 113 voting stations have been set up in 65 countries in order…
A tale of two Chiles; referendum on constitutional reform
While Chile’s rich and corporations enjoy low taxes, its poor and elderly struggle with nearly no social safety net.
Chile celebrates breeding of endangered Loa water frogs
SANTIAGO — A clutch of critically-endangered water frogs rescued from a muddy puddle in Chile’s driest desert has birthed 200 offspring at the country’s national…
Chileans mark anniversary of mass protests with peaceful rallies in the morning and riots and looting at night
Tens of thousands of Chileans gathered in the central square of Santiago, Plaza Italia, renamed Plaza Dignidad, to mark the one-year anniversary of mass protests…