Chileans buy more guns, private guards as security tops concerns
Santiago, ChileReuters After their pick-up truck was stolen at gunpoint outside their home in Santiago last June, Javiera Castillo and her partner began learning how to shoot a pistol to prevent future encounters. Castillo, 23, a student and small-business owner who lives in the middle-class neighborhood of Maipu in Santiago, is one of a record […]
Chile announces biological corridor to protect endangered deer
Santiago, Chile Reuters Chile launched a program on Monday to protect the huemul, an endangered southern deer, by creating a biological corridor that includes an area recently donated by the family of the late philanthropist and founder of the North Face, Douglas Tompkins. The Rewilding Chile Foundation, Tompkins’ legacy, along with Chile’s Ministry of Agriculture, […]
Updated: Chilean wildfires destroy hundreds of homes, endanger world’s smallest deer
Updated: 11:15amChillan, ChileReuters Forest fires across south-central Chile that have left 24 people dead and swallowed up hundreds of houses spread into new areas on Wednesday after raging overnight, burning up the habitats of vulnerable woodland animals. “We call on everyone who can to take care of the forests which are currently on fire, and […]
Chile battles deadliest wildfires on record as heatwave grips
Santaigo, ChileReuters Chilean firefighters were battling to hold back forest fires on Monday as authorities said hot and dry weather would continue this week, potentially exacerbating what are already the deadliest blazes in the country’s recent history. The fires, which have consumed 270,000 hectares of land, have killed 26 people so far in south-central Chile, […]
Four dead in Chile as fires blaze through area south of capital
Santiago, Chile Reuters Dozens of raging wildfires in Chile claimed at least four lives while torching some 14,000 hectares, authorities reported on Friday, as a summer heat wave engulfs a large swath of the South American country. The deaths occurred in the town of Santa Juana in Biobio, a region some 500 kilometres south of […]
Scattered clashes in Chile mark third anniversary of riots
Santiago, ChileReuters Scattered clashes around Chile between protesters and police on Tuesday marked the third anniversary of widespread protests against inequality in 2019 that left more than 30 people dead. In the capital of Santiago, hooded protesters lit fires and threw rocks at police, including in the area surrounding Plaza Baquedano, the epicenter of the […]
Chile rethinks mine safety after worker deaths and expanding sinkhole
Reuters Chile is taking another look at health in safety in its mines after two workers died on a mining construction project in July and a giant sinkhole more recently opened up near a copper mine. Chile President Gabriel Boric said on Wednesday he wants to ratify an International Labor Organization convention on health and […]