16 Feb 2019
SANTIAGO/BUENOS AIRES Chinese ride-hailing giant Didi Chuxing is planning to take on U.S. rival Uber in some of Latin America's fastest-growing markets, recruiting managers in Chile, Peru and Colombia, according to job postings and a company official.
09 Feb 2019
SANTIAGO Chilean state miner Codelco said on Saturday it hoped to soon restart operations at its northern Chuquicamata copper mine a day after heavy rains forced its suspension.
09 Feb 2019
SANTIAGO, Feb 9 Chilean state miner Codelco said
on Saturday it hoped to soon restart operations at its northern
Chuquicamata copper mine a day after heavy rains forced its
suspension.
07 Feb 2019
A Chilean court has opened a fresh case against the country's former army chief for the alleged torture of 24 political prisoners following a military coup in 1973, according to a court document released Thursday.
07 Feb 2019
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By Aislinn Laing
Feb 7 Chile posted a January trade surplus
of $1.031 billion, with copper exports reaching
$2.542 billion in the same month, the country's central bank
said on Thursday.
The surplus was almost double the $596 million posted in
December, and was down to reduced imports, the bank said.
Exports reached $6.671 billion in the first month of the
year, an increase of 2.05 percent from December, while imports
were $5.639 billion, compared to $5.941 billion the previous
month.
January December January
2019 2018 2018
Trade balance (millions $1.031 bln $596 mln $1.151 bln
of dollars)
Exports (billions of $6.671 $6.537 $6.629
dollars)
Imports (billions of $5.639 $5.941 $5.478
dollars)
Copper export revenue $2.542 $3.489 $2.549
(billions of dollars)
(Reporting by Aislinn Laing;
Editing by Chizu Nomiyama)
02 Jan 2019
Two victims of sexual abuse by a Roman Catholic Church priest in Chile launched a fresh attack on the country's bishops on Wednesday, accusing them of failing to reform or learn from the crisis.
17 Dec 2018
SANTIAGO Chilean law enforcement officials are investigating the delivery of Iranian crude oil to state energy company ENAP as a possible source of the noxious fumes that caused hundreds of people to seek hospital treatment in August, a prosecutors' office told Reuters.
17 Dec 2018
Dec 17 Chilean law enforcement officials are
investigating the delivery of Iranian crude oil to the state
energy company ENAP as a possible source of the noxious fumes
that caused hundreds of people to seek hospital treatment in
August, the prosecutor's office told Reuters.
17 Dec 2018
ARICA, Chile In the pitch black of the moonless Chilean desert night, the Cuban man is hard to spot until he is within yards of the border.
13 Dec 2018
SANTIAGO Europe's biggest utility Enel and Chinese electric vehicle giant BYD on Thursday marked the arrival of 100 electric buses in Chile and said they would work together on similar plans for three other Latin American nations.