Michelle Bachelet

Obama picks first black attorney gen

WASHINGTON: President-elect Barack Obama has reportedly picked a former high-ranking Clinton administration aide to serve as the next attorney general, the country's top law enforcement official. Eric Holder, a former US...

Alleged Pinochet victim turns up alive in Chile

Discovery fuels outrage in nation mourning 1,196 other political prisoners SANTIAGO, Chile - The reappearance of man who was officially dead has shaken and outraged some in Chile, a nation that mourns 1,196 other political...

Obama calls 5 foreign leaders

President-elect Barack Obama called five foreign leaders Tuesday, continuing to respond to the congratulatory calls that poured in after his election two weeks ago from dignitaries around the globe. The Obama transition office...

WNU #967: Chilean Government Workers Strike

Castro says he tried to convince former FARC leader Manuel Marulanda Vélez, who died in March of this year, that he could make a peace agreement with then-president Andrés Pastrana during negotiations in 1999, but that...

Public workers' strike paralyzes Chile

Strikers want 14.5 percent pay increase; government offering 6.5 percent Garbage piling up on streets; weddings and autopsies not being performed Government has made new offer to strikers, spokesman says SANTIAGO, Chile (CNN)...

Peru, U.S. presidents to hold bilateral meeting

Peruvian president Alan García Pérez will hold this week a bilateral meeting with his U.S. counterpart, George W. Bush, who will attend the Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) Leaders' Meeting in Peru's capital Lima. The...

Chilean Lawmakers Call For Investigation Of HIV/AIDS Situation

Chile's new health minister, Alvaro Erazo, on Thursday said that at least 512 people nationwide have not been informed by the public health system that they tested HIV-positive and that an additional 1,364 people have not been...

Amnesty International Secretary General Visits Chile on 10th Anniversary of Pinochet's Arrest:...

by Natalie Hart - Chile - • Don Ignacio Maríl, an astute Mapuche elder and charismatic community representative, has lived through roughly 80 years of indigenous territorial dispute. Photograph by Galen Brown. •“Impunity for...

Brazil's Lula Chosen as Latin World's Best Leader

Brazilian President, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, is considered the most outstanding leader by Latin Americans according to the latest edition of the public opinion poll Latinbarometer 2008 which was released this week in Chile....

ReportBuyer.com Releases Economist Intelligence Unit Chile Country Report

NewswireToday (newswire) - Report Buyer, the online destination for business intelligence for major industry sectors, has added a new report giving a detailed political and financial outlook for the current situation in Chile

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