SANTIAGO – Chilean copper miners’ unions called on Sunday for a re-evaluation of the operational continuity plans of the country’s biggest miners during what they said was an “alarming” increase in coronavirus cases among workers. […]
SANTIAGO – This week Chilean police detained 14 members of a drug trafficking and money laundering gang, said the country’s Investigative Police Department (PDI). During a raid on Friday, the PDI confiscated 113.4 kilos of […]
Ali Dashti/The Santiago Times Staff LA PAZ – Bolivia has denounced the ongoing war games between the Chilean and the U.S. forces in the deserts of the north Chile close to the Antofagasta port city. […]
SANTIAGO – Former Colonel Sergio Arredondo, a former convicted member of Chilean death squad, died at a military hospital in Santiago this week. Arredondo, 92, was carrying out a 15-year sentence for orchestrating the deaths […]
SANTAGO – Chilean copper producer Antofagasta has sold its electricity transmission business Centinela Transmisión to Red Eléctrica Chile SpA, a subsidiary of Red Eléctrica Internacional, for US$117 million. On Friday, the company said the sale of the unit […]
SANTIAGO – Chilean authorities will build a center for energy transition and advanced materials for the development of lithium in northern Antofagasta region, which holds 54% of the world’s lithium resources. The executive vice president […]
SANTIAGO – Croatia’s President Kolinda Grabar-Kitarović is flying to South America on Saturday, and the first stop of her Latin American tour, which will last until 20 March, is Argentina, and after that she will […]
SANTIAGO – Twelve people died in mining accidents during 2017, according to a study conducted by the National Geology and Mining Service (Sernageomin), which is the lowest figure in 18 years. Revealing a 33% decrease […]
Isabel Cocker/The Santiago Times Staff SANTIAGO – According to a study, performed by Education First, Chile’s level of English proficiency has been ranked as 45th out of 90 studied countries. This is the second consecutive […]
SANTIAGO – Italian utility Enel S.p.A., acting through its subsidiary Enel Generación Chile, has been awarded the supply of 1.180 TWh per year to a number of Chilean distribution companies through the tender launched by […]
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