Piñera and more than 1,5 million Chileans inoculated with the Sinovac vaccine
Chile’s President Sebastian Piñera received on Friday the first dose of the Sinovac vaccine against the virus caused by Covid-19. The president is eligible to…
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How Chile became an unlikely winner in the Covid-19 vaccine race
By Veronica Díaz-Cerda At first glance, it may seem that the race to acquire COVID-19 vaccines has been won by western nations. But alongside the…
#K2Winter2021: Missing mountaineer not found after three days of searching
Nek Amal Utmani The Santiago Times Correspondent ISLAMABAD – Pakistani mountaineer Muhammad Ali Sadpara and his two foreign companions, John Pablo Moher and John Snorri,…
Chile advances in the development of new varieties of table grapes
The Asoex Fruit Technology Consortium is making progress in obtaining its first 3 varieties of grapes, 100% developed in Chile. “Our Consortium has been working…
Chile leads Latin America vaccine charge as it hits millionth jab
Chile hit the one million mark in COVID-19 vaccinations on Tuesday, putting the small but wealthy Andean nation at the forefront of the region’s inoculation…
Chilean communists condemn new acts of police violence
The Communist Party of Chile (CP) today harshly condemned the death of a street artist shot by a policeman, and called for a complete overhaul…
Police shooting of street artist sparks violent protests
The fatal shooting of a street artist in Chile led to protesters clashing with police in the capital Santiago over the weekend. The events were…
Peru’s interim president Merino resigns after massive protests
LIMA – Peru’s interim president, Manuel Merino, has resigned less than a week into his new administration, after a night of protests calling for his…
COVID-19: 34% of reported cases are asymptomatic at the national level
Carlos Colomer/The Santiago Times Staff SANTIAGO – The Minister of Health, Enrique Paris, highlighted that according to the COVID-19 report of last November 7, “1,568…
Waiting for a conviction after 18 years of the murder of young Mapuche Alex Lemun
Carlos Colomer/The Santiago Times Staff SANTIAGO – On November 7, 2002, the then Major of the Carabineros, Marco Aurelio Treuer Heysende, in charge of the…