Area Total | 756,102 sqkm |
Climate | temperate; desert in north; Mediterranean in central region; cool and damp in south |
Natural Resources | copper, timber, iron ore, nitrates, precious metals, molybdenum, hydropower |
Imports | $61.31 billion (2017 est.)partners: China 23.9%, US 18.1%, Brazil 8.6%, Argentina 4.5%, Germany 4% (2017) |
Exports | $69.23 billion (2017 est.)partners: China 27.5%, US 14.5%, Japan 9.3%, South Korea.6.2%, Brazil 5% (2017) |
Government | presidential republic |
Capital | Santiago |
Population | 17.9 million (July 2018 est.) |
Ethnicity | white and non-indigenous 88.9%, Mapuche9.1%, Aymara0.7%, other indigenous groups 1%, unspecified 0.3% (2012 est.) |
Language | Spanish 99.5% (official), English 10.2%, indigenous 1%, other 2.3%, unspecified 0.2%1 (2012 est.) |
News about Chile
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The curse of 'white oil': electric vehicles' dirty secret – podcast
by Written by Oliver Balch , read by Mo Ayoub and produced by Esther Opoku-Gyeni on January 11, 2021
The race is on to find a steady source of lithium, a key component in rechargeable electric car batteries. But while the EU focuses on emissions, the lithium gold rush threatens environmental damage on an industrial scale. By Oliver Balch. Continue reading...
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'Just unimaginable': Latin America's Covid crisis lurches from bad to worse
by Tom Phillips in Rio de Janeiro, William Costa in Asunción and Analy Nuño in Guadalajara on December 10, 2020
Health services in Brazil, Mexico and Paraguay are dangerously stretched as a second wave buffets a region where the first never endedAs the coronavirus epidemic hammered Rio earlier this year, frontline doctor Clarisse Bressan recalls fleeing to her hospital’s toilet to shed surreptitious tears of exhaustion and fear.“I lost a colleague who was my […]
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The Mole Agent review – care-home spy uncovers wells of loneliness
by Peter Bradshaw on December 10, 2020
This documentary, set in an old people’s home in Chile, exasperatingly fails to come clean about its own setupThere are moments of sweetness and sadness in Maite Alberdi’s documentary about an old people’s care home in Chile. But I couldn’t make friends with this film because of its pointless and twee contrivance, which undermined its genuine ideas. […]
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The curse of 'white oil': electric vehicles' dirty secret
by Oliver Balch on December 8, 2020
The race is on to find a steady source of lithium, a key component in rechargeable electric car batteries. But while the EU focuses on emissions, the lithium gold rush threatens environmental damage on an industrial scaleEven before the new mine became the main topic of village conversation, João Cassote, a 44-year-old livestock farmer, was thinking about […]
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World mourns football legend Diego Maradona
by Web Editor on November 27, 2020
BUENOS AIRES – Argentine football great Diego Maradona was buried at a cemetery in the Bella Vista residential area near Buenos Aires this week. This cemetery was chosen as Maradona’s parents are buried there. The [...]
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Peru’s interim president Merino resigns after massive protests
by Web Editor on November 15, 2020
LIMA – Peru’s interim president, Manuel Merino, has resigned less than a week into his new administration, after a night of protests calling for his removal and a subsequent police crackdown left at least two [...]
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COVID-19: 34% of reported cases are asymptomatic at the national level
by Web Editor on November 12, 2020
Carlos Colomer/The Santiago Times Staff SANTIAGO – The Minister of Health, Enrique Paris, highlighted that according to the COVID-19 report of last November 7, “1,568 new cases are reported, of which 27% originate from active [...]
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Waiting for a conviction after 18 years of the murder of young Mapuche Alex Lemun
by Web Editor on November 12, 2020
Carlos Colomer/The Santiago Times Staff SANTIAGO – On November 7, 2002, the then Major of the Carabineros, Marco Aurelio Treuer Heysende, in charge of the Carabineros group, shot his gun at Alex Lemun’s head. After [...]
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Letter to Editor: Strange Civic Disobedience
by Web Editor on November 11, 2020
Dennis Fitzgerald Today I went to the library to pick up a book, the John Bolton book “The Room Where It Happened: A White House Memoir”. The library has been open since Monday as the [...]
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New Chilean government-opposition friction between over pension funds
by Web Editor on November 11, 2020
The Chamber of Deputies of Chile will debate on the second withdrawal of pension funds that heralds a new clash between the legislature and the government, threatening to take the issue to the Constitutional Court. [...]
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Humpback whales are back in South Georgia, after almost extinction a century ago
by Web Editor on November 11, 2020
A new study shows the welcome return of humpback whales to the waters around the sub-Antarctic island of South Georgia after a century of commercial whaling decimated their populations. The study is published in the [...]
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Biden pleads US folks to wear masks and names Covid-19 scientific task force
by Web Editor on November 11, 2020
President-elect Joe Biden on Monday made an urgent plea for Americans to wear masks to slow the spread of the coronavirus, declaring that “a mask is not a political statement” as he vowed to make [...]
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Report from cyberbullying expert identifies ‘negligence’ towards student’s wellbeing at Institut Le Rosey
by Web Editor on November 10, 2020
Dr Sameer Hinduja A report issued by Dr Hinduja of the Cyberbullying Research Center examines the failings at the world’s most expensive school, Le Rosey, in Switzerland The report found that the school was ‘deliberately [...]
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Biden beats Trump to become next President, projects American media
by Ross Brown on November 7, 2020
WASHINGTON – Four days after a bitterly contested presidential election between Donald Trump and Joe Biden, America on Saturday still awaited definitive results, with the Democratic former vice president on the brink of winning the [...]
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'Prevent, discourage, confront': South American states tackle Chinese fishing boats
by Agence France-Presse on November 4, 2020
Chile, Colombia, Ecuador and Peru join forces over fleets’ Pacific territory intrusionsFour South American countries have joined forces in a bid to combat illegal fishing by huge Chinese fleets off their coasts.Chile, Colombia, Ecuador and Peru have threatened measures “to prevent, discourage and jointly confront” illegal fishing near their exclusive […]