Chile

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...

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 […]

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. […]

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 […]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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. [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 […]