Hundreds of dead sea lions, pelicans and rare penguins have washed ashore
Posted by: fibonnaci
La Serena :: Chile | updated 2013-05-17 16:32:48 -0700 | odd-news
The approximately 600 dead sea creatures were found strewn on the beaches north of the city of La Serena Wednesday. - This is the most damage we've seen on the fauna in the Coquimbo region, and we will add resources...
Latin America achieved record FDI in 2012
Posted by: rsa76
Santiago :: Chile | updated 2013-05-23 23:24:17 -0700 | business-news
Foreign direct investment (FDI) in Latin America and the Caribbean in 2012 reached a record high of U.S. $ 173.361 million, driven by the region's economic growth and high prices commodities ECLAC in Santiago reported. This marks an increase of...
Chilean priest expelled from Church for sex abuse
Posted by: rsa76
Santiago :: Chile | updated 2013-05-23 23:30:27 -0700 | odd-news
The Catholic priest Hector Valdes justice who refused to prosecute for lack of evidence, was expelled from the Church for sexually abusing two minors. A statement from the Archbishop of Santiago said that "after the administrative process conducted in accordance...
Expert: mysterious mummy from Chile was not an extraterrestrial creature
Posted by: amagda
Atacama :: Chile | updated 2013-05-23 23:49:43 -0700 | entertainment-news
The mysterious mummy discovered in the Atacama Desert, in Chile, has nothing to do with aliens, who were supposed to visit our planet. It is only the mummified body of a man with a particularly puzzling mutation - convince American...
Chilean students protest demand better education
Posted by: rsa76
Santiago :: Chile | updated 2013-05-24 00:42:50 -0700 | odd-news
SANTIAGO, Chile - Tens of thousands of Chilean students returned to the streets on Wednesday to demand better education, aware that the subject of teaching is in discourse and in the program of all candidates seeking to win the presidential...
Chile Construction Industry - Key Trends and Market Opportunities and Forecasts to 2017
Posted by: ReportsnReports
Santiago :: Chile | updated 2013-05-08 03:42:13 -0700 | business-news
The Chilean construction industry increased in value at a CAGR of 5.19% during the review period to reach CLP18 trillion (US$36.1 billion) in 2012. This growth was supported by a rapid inflow in foreign direct investment (FDI), low unemployment, reconstruction...
Chile: 3-day-old burned alive; after being declared ‘Antichrist' by a cult leader
Posted by: NadeemIftekhar
Valparaíso :: Chile | updated 2013-04-28 06:23:14 -0700 | disasters-news
A 3-day-old helpless child was ordered naked, strapped to a board and later tossed onto burning fires; on the orders of a Chilean cult leader after he had declared; the infant was an ‘Antichrist’ child. The accused, identified as Ramon...
Chile arrests mother and fellow cult members for burning newborn alive
Posted by: Jackie Chazan
Colliguay :: Chile | updated 2013-04-28 06:23:14 -0700 | disasters-news
Chilean authorities and Interpol are looking for the leader of a sect who ordered a newborn baby burned alive because the baby was believed to be the antichrist, USA Today reported Thursday. According to police, the cult originated in 2005...
Chilean authorities captured four suspects who burn a baby
Posted by: rsa76
Santiago :: Chile | updated 2013-04-28 06:23:14 -0700 | disasters-news
SANTIAGO, Chile - Chilean authorities on Thursday captured four suspected members of a sect which they accuse of killing a bonfire daughter born three days of one of the arrested and the group's leader, who is a fugitive possibly in...
A fire destroys over 60 homes in the Chilean city of Valparaiso
Posted by: rsa76
Santiago :: Chile | updated 2013-04-24 00:58:39 -0700 | disasters-news
More than 60 houses were consumed by a fire that hit the hills today and Butterflies Cross Chilean city of Valparaiso, 120 kilometers west of Santiago, facing the Pacific. According to police the accident forced the evacuation of the occupants...
Thousands of people clamoring for free education in Chile
Posted by: rsa76
Santiago :: Chile | updated 2013-04-11 23:08:23 -0700 | education-news
Chilean students today showed its convening power with a demonstration in Santiago to demand changes in the educational model that lead to free education and to end profit. The mayor of the metropolitan region of Santiago, Antonio Peribonio, said at...
Chilean cities paralyzed by huge student protests against for-profit education
Posted by: northsunm32
Santiago :: Chile | updated 2013-04-13 15:33:17 -0700 | education-news
Tens of thousands of Chilean students demonstrated in a number of cities on Thursday (April 11) in one of the largest demonstrations ever, demanding free education. The protests against the for-profit parts of the education system have been ongoing for...
Was revered poet's death a political murder? Chile exhumes Pablo Neruda's remains to find out
Posted by: Nathan Salant
Santiago :: Chile | updated 2013-04-12 16:54:42 -0700 | political-news
Authorities in Chile have exhumed the body of world-famous poet Pablo Neruda to investigate whether he was murdered in the aftermath of a brutal military coup that ousted the country's socialist president in 1974. The exhumation comes as Chile re-examines...
Total Miners announce strike in Chile
Posted by: rsa76
Santiago :: Chile | updated 2013-04-11 13:13:51 -0700 | disasters-news
Workers Federation of Chile Copper (FTC) and the Miners' Federation of Chile (FMC) today announced a halt to Tuesday morning, state and private mines in the country. This unprecedented joint demonstration of state workers Corporación del Cobre de Chile (Codelco)...
Thousands of Chilean students started protest
Posted by: rsa76
Santiago :: Chile | updated 2013-03-28 23:25:16 -0700 | disasters-news
SANTIAGO, Chile - With riots, police repression and arrested concluded a street march in the first year student protest organized by local private university in term of profit demand. Several thousand young people marched through the center of the capital,...
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