Chile

SANTIAGO, Chile (AP) — Chileans are voting in a plebiscite Sunday on whether to adopt a far-reaching new constitution that would fundamentally change the South American country.

The proposed charter is intended to replace a constitution imposed by a military dictatorship 41 years ago.

For months, opinion polls have shown a clear advantage for the rejection camp, but the difference has been narrowing, giving hope to the charter’s supporters that they can pull out a victory.

SANTIAGO, Aug 28 (Reuters) - Chilean authorities warned that the area around a copper mine where a sinkhole suddenly appeared is at high risk of further collapse and has set up a security perimeter.

Government agencies and the mine's owners are studying what caused the appearance in late July of the mysterious hole that spans 36.5 meters (120 feet) in diameter.

SANTIAGO, Aug 27 (NNN-MERCOPRESS) — Chile’s President Gabriel Boric Font accepted the resignation of Minister of Social Development, Jeannette Vega, after she was found to have tried to contact a Mapuche leader arrested earlier this week for acts of violence.

SANTIAGO, Aug 20 (NNN-MERCOPRESS) — Chile’s Lower House passed an internal regulation whereby Deputies will have to submit a hair sample for a toxicology test and drew lots for the first 78 of the 150 of them who will have to abide by the new indication.

SANTIAGO, Aug 8 - Chile will seek to apply harsh sanctions on those responsible for a huge sinkhole near a copper mine in the country's north, the mining minister said on Monday.

The mysterious hole of 36.5 meters in diameter that emerged in late July has provoked the mobilization of local authorities and led the mining regulator Sernageomin to suspend operations of a nearby mine owned by Canada's Lundin (LUN.TO) in the northern district of Candelaria.

Aug 7 (Reuters) - A sinkhole in Chile has doubled in size, growing large enough to engulf France's Arc de Triomphe and prompting officials to order work to stop at a nearby copper mine.

The sinkhole, which emerged on July 30, now stretches 50 meters (160 feet) across and goes down 200 meters (656 feet). Seattle's Space Needle would also comfortably fit in the black pit, as would six Christ the Redeemer statues from Brazil stacked head-to-head, giant arms outstretched.

SANTIAGO, Aug 1 (Reuters) - Chilean authorities started investigating on Monday a mysterious sinkhole about 25 meters (82 feet) in diameter that appeared over the weekend in a mining area in the north of the country.

Chilean media showed aerial images of the sinkhole on land operated by a Canadian Lundin Mining (LUN.TO) copper mine, about 665 kilometers (413 miles) north of capital Santiago.

SANTIAGO, Jul 13 (NNN-PRENSA LATINA) – Two earthquakes with magnitudes of 6.3 and 5.2, shook Chile’s Easter Island yesterday, but did not generate a tsunami threat, the National Emergency Office of the Ministry of Interior and Public Security, reported.

The ministry detailed that, the first tremor, measuring 6.3, was registered at 3:17 p.m. local time, 699 km to the north-west of Easter Island, a Chilean island territory, located in the middle of the Pacific Ocean.

SANTIAGO, Chile (AP) — With jokes, upbeat Caribbean music and vacation scenes of sun-kissed beaches and palm trees, Haitian influencers on YouTube and TikTok advertise charter flights to South America.

But they are not targeting tourists.

Instead, they are touts for a thriving, little-known shadow industry that is profiting from the U.S. government sending people back to Haiti, a country besieged by gang violence.

SANTIAGO, May 16 (NNN-MERCOPRESS) — Chile’s Constitutional Convention published the draft of the text it penned to replace the Carta Magna inherited from 1980 and which was inspired by former military dictator Augusto Pinochet.