SANTIAGO — Once again, Chilean students have taken to the streets to protest the…
English Test for Chilean High-Schools Help Make Chile a Bilingual Country
English Test for Chilean High-Schools Help Make Chile a Bilingual Country
Attention Designers, Architects and Artists of all Trades: Contest to Design Memorial for Earthquake Victims Launched
Attention Designers, Architects and Artists of all Trades: Contest to Design Memorial for Earthquake Victims Launched
Largest Star in the Universe is Discovered With Chilean Telescopes
Largest Star in the Universe is Discovered With Chilean Telescopes
35 Former Military Personnel Would Fulfill Conditions for Bicentennial Pardon
Defense Minister Jaime Ravinet’s criteria for a Bicentennial Pardon would fit at least 35 of former member of the military convicted for Human Rights violations during Pinochet dictatorship. While the suggestion stirs an uneasy debate amongst Chileans, families of some of the infamous “desaparecidos” made their discomfort with such an idea known to President Sebastián [...]
One Hundred Thousand Livestock in Danger Due to Snow in Aysén Region
One Hundred Thousand Livestock in Danger Due to Snow in Aysén Region
Chilean Homosexual Couple Asks to be Married in Argentina
Chilean Homosexual Couple Asks to be Married in Argentina
Subway Chaos: One Dead and Power Outage that Affected 4 Lines
Subway Chaos: One Dead and Power Outage that Affects 4 Lines
Winter season dramatizes public health crisis
It would be an understatement to say that Chile’s public-health care system is suffering. This year’s winter health crisis has brought with it the death of triplet- newborns in a public hospital, the dismissal and subsequent deaths of two patients in public hospital waiting rooms, the birth of a baby in a public hospital bathroom, [...]
Poverty rises 1.4% in Chile; Casen survey
Published on Tuesday July 13th, the 2006-2009 survey on the National Socioeconomic Characteristics of Chile determined that just over 355 thousand people reached the poverty line for the first time in 2009, bringing the population living under $564,000 per capita in Chile to 2,564,000. Close to 635,000 of them live with less $282,000 a year. [...]