SANTIAGO — Once again, Chilean students have taken to the streets to protest the…
Yerba Loca Nature Sanctuary: Escape the City
Charlotte Mountford soothed her city-frayed soul at the Yerba Loca (Wild Herb) sanctuary, just 25 km out of the city. Meadows filled with wild herbs, gushing streams, towering mountains and an enormous hanging glacier. Cyprus, pine and eucalyptus trees flooding the valley with heady aromas. Just 25 km from the city, the Yerba Loca sanctuary [...]
Chile’s Daily News Brief: 25th June
Governor proposes throwing drug traffickers into the sea During a ceremony meant to congratulate his municipality´s work on combating and reducing crime in the area, the governor of Cerro Navia, Luis Plaza, offered a rather dramatic solution to solve narcotics trafficking – by throwing perpetrators into the sea. The response of Minister of the Interior, [...]
Ski season in Chile kicks off
The ski season was officially launched yesterday by Sernatur (the national tourism service) and the Asociación de Centros de Ski de Chile. The Chilean Ski Centers Association includes Valle Nevado, El Colorado, La Parva, Portillo, Termas de Chillán and Villarrica. The managers of these fields met with Sernatur director Jacqueline Plass at a stormy Valle [...]
Solutions to plastic waste: Bio-plastics and TNT
The average Chilean consumes 40 kilos of plastic per year, making it the country with the highest consumption of plastic in Latin America. It’s estimated that eight to ten percent of Chile’s trash comes from plastic. Now alternatives are being developed to help the reduce this statistic and further harm to the environment. Cosmetics, rugs and [...]
World Cup: Slovakia v Italy highlight report
The Final Score: Slovakia 3-2 Italy (Vittek 2, Kopunek; Di Natale, Quagliarella) The Line-Up: Slovakia: 1-Jan Mucha; 2-Peter Pekarik, 3-Martin Skrtel, 16-Jan Durica, 5-Radoslav Zabavnik, 6-Zdeno Strba, 15-Miroslav Stoch, 17-Marek Hamsik, 11-Robert Vittek, 19-Juraj Kucka, 18-Erik Jendrisek. Italy: 12-Federico Marchetti; 19-Gianluca Zambrotta, 5-Fabio Cannavaro, 4-Giorgio Chiellini, 3-Domenico Criscito, 22-Riccardo Montolivo, 6-Daniele De Rossi, 8-Gennaro Gattuso, [...]
Chile opens its first tyre recycling plant
Each year on average 21 tons of tires are generated in the Vaplaraiso, Bernardo O’Higgins, and Metropolitan regions of Chile. With the opening of Polambiente, the first Chilean tire recycling and re-utilization plant, three million tires will avoid ending up in dumpsters and waterways of Chile, where they would take about 500 years to degrade. The [...]
Formal complaint over deaths in public hospital waiting-room
A formal complaint was launched yesterday due to the deaths of two patients in a public hospital waiting room. Teresa Saravia, 54, and Omar Neira Lagos, 77, passed away of heart attacks in the ¨Posta Central¨ hospital in Santiago, after being released by medical staff and coming back later the same day to seek further [...]
Ghana v Germany highlight report
The Final Score: Ghana 0-1 Germany (Ozil) The Line-Up: Ghana: 22-Richard Kingson; 4-John Pantsil, 8-Jonathan Mensah, 5-John Mensah, 2-Hans Sarpei; 6-Anthony Annan, 23-Kevin-Prince Boateng, 13-Dede Ayew, 12-Prince Tagoe; 21-Kwadwo Asamoah, 3-Asamoah Gyan. Germany: 1-Manuel Neuer; 16-Philipp Lahm, 3-Arne Friedrich, 17-Per Mertesacker, 20-Jerome Boateng, 13-Thomas Mueller, 6-Sami Khedira, 7-Bastian Schweinsteiger, 10-Lukas Podolski, 8-Mesut Ozil, 19-Cacau. A [...]
Chile’s Daily News Brief: 24th June
Van der Sloot complains about Peruvian police for alleged abuse Lima media announced today that Joran van der Sloot, accused and arrested in Peru for the murder of Stephany Flores, complained to the head of the Directorate of Criminalistics of the Peruvian police that Miguel Angel Mantilla abused his right to defense. Van der Sloot [...]
Chile vow to keep the faith with attacking philosophy
Chile captain Claudio Bravo said his team would not renege on their attacking philosophy in their final Group H match against Spain, even though they need only a draw to be sure of reaching the last 16 of the World Cup. Chile arrived in South Africa with a reputation for exciting football having scored a [...]