Chile

SANTIAGO, May 4 NNN-PRENSA LATINA) – Chilean companies projected the country’s inflation will be “well above normal” in the next 12 months, according to a Business Perceptions Report, released by the Central Bank of Chile yesterday.

The report, which summarises opinions from companies across the country, said, although the effect of inflation on the companies’ performance has so far been insignificant, there is a general concern about its impact on household consumption decisions, and the possible effect on the companies’ future performance.

SANTIAGO, April 21 (Reuters) - Chile's constitutional assembly will start debating dozens of articles on Thursday regarding mining, water and environmental rights that could reshape how the world's top copper producer regulates production of the red metal and minerals like lithium.

The debate will start at 12 p.m. local time (1600 GMT) over 52 articles including protecting water sources, glaciers and wetlands before voting later today and on Friday. The proposals overall establish stricter environmental regulation for mining.

SANTIAGO, April 11 (Reuters) - As a punishing, record-breaking drought enters its 13th year, Chile on Monday announced an unprecedented plan to ration water for the capital of Santiago, a city of nearly 6 million.

"A city can't live without water," Claudio Orrego, the governor of the Santiago metropolitan region, said in a press conference. "And we're in an unprecedented situation in Santiago's 491-year history where we have to prepare for there to not be enough water for everyone who lives here."

18 March 2022; MEMO: Chilean President Gabriel Boric called on the international community to show solidarity with Palestine as it has shown support for Ukraine.

SANTIAGO (Chile), March 14 (NNN-MERCOPRESS) — Presidents Pedro Castillo Terrones of Peru and Luis Arce Catacora of Bolivia held a private meeting in Santigo de Chile on the sides of Gabriel Boric Font’s inauguration to discuss the possibility of supplying Peru with LPG, among other issues.

Castillo and Arce talked about “cooperation on various issues of shared interests between the two countries”, according to the official Twitter account of the Presidency of Peru.

SANTIAGO, March 11 (Xinhua) -- Gabriel Boric Font, a 36-year-old leftist politician, was inaugurated on Friday as Chile's new president, the youngest to hold the office, for the period between 2022-2026.

A former student leader, and legal and social sciences graduate from the University of Chile, Boric was sworn in along with his cabinet during a ceremony at the National Congress in Valparaiso, about 100 km from the capital Santiago.

SANTIAGO, March 7 (NNN-MERCOPRESS) — Less than a week before the end of President Sebastián Piñera’s term, Chile’s government has announced plans to build a long ditch on the border with Bolivia as a measure to control the migration crisis stemming from the illegal arrival of people.

Interior Minister Rodrigo Delgado disclosed the intended measure at the National Defense Headquarters in Tamarugal, where a state of exception is in force. President Piñera extended it last week for yet another fortnight.

SANTIAGO, Feb 19 (NNN-MERCOPRESS) — Chile is to be defined in the future as a “Regional State, multinational and intercultural” according to the draft approved on Friday afternoon by the constitutional convention that is discussing the new constitution for the country.

The article, the first to be discussed was supported by 112 votes and 34 against plus three abstentions.

The other option that was also considered but rejected was a “Unitary Decentralized State”.

SANTIAGO, Feb 19 (NNN-MERCOPRESS) — Chile’s Interior Minister Rodrigo Delgado wants to close the country’s northern border as a new stage of the “state of exception” already in force in four provinces where the migration crisis is escalating.

“The time has come to close the border even more and be able to have the tools that the new immigration legislation and the state of exception are giving us. We are going to continue using them and we do not rule out taking more measures,” he told reporters Friday.

SANTIAGO, Jan 17 (NNN-PRENSA LATINA) – Chile, for the second consecutive day, registered a record number of daily COVID-19 cases, after reporting 9,454 infections in the last 24 hours, the Ministry of Health said yesterday.

Cases from the past seven days rose 144 percent from the previous week, and cases from the past 14 days increased 249 percent compared to the previous two weeks.