Protest erupts in eastern Cuba amid blackouts, food shortages
Havana, Cuba Reuters Hundreds in Cuba’s second-largest city, Santiago, took to the streets late Sunday in a rare public protest, according to social media and official reports, and Cuban President Miguel Diaz-Canel called for an “atmosphere of tranquility and peace”. Protesters in Santiago chanted “power and food,” according to videos posted on social media, as […]
Voices from the diaspora: In Chile, Palestinian community makes its voice heard on Gaza
ALEXANDER VILLEGAS, of Reuters, reports from Chile which has the largest Palestinian population outside the US…
In wake of disasters, Chile animal shelter offers hope to wildlife
Santiago, ChileReuters In the misty forests just outside of Chile’s capital Santiago, a rescued puma stalks the leafy surroundings of the Refugio Animal Cascada, a shelter hoping to rehabilitate and house wildlife affected by the country’s natural disasters. The shelter, first opened two decades ago, has seen a host of new residents this year following […]
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 […]
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 […]
Chile battles to combat forest fires amid threat to residents
Santiago, Chile Reuters Chile is battling to control the spread of several wildfires that have already destroyed more than 4,000 hectares of woodlands and are putting local communities at risk. Central regions including the Santiago metropolitan area, Valparaiso, O’Higgins and Maule are on red alert, with nine active fires currently being fought, data from the […]
Chilean cowboys gather for blessing at national shrine
Santiago, Chile AP With the snow-covered Andes shining in the background, several dozen cowboys in woollen ponchos and families on wooden horse carts lined up Saturday to receive a priest’s blessing in the huge esplanade in front of the National Sanctuary of Maipú. “I come every year to fulfill a vow,” said Joshua Contreras, 30, […]
Chile announces unprecedented water rationing plan as drought enters 13th year
Santiago, Chile Reuters As a punishing, record-breaking drought enters its 13th year, Chile on Monday announced an unprecedented plan to ration water for the capital of Santiago, a city of nearly six million. “A city can’t live without water,” Claudio Orrego, the Governor of the Santiago metropolitan region, said in a press conference. “And we’re […]
Postcards: Chile’s record-breaking drought makes climate change “very easy” to see
ESTEBAN MEDEL, of Reuters, reports on Chile’s decades-long drought…
Karadima, priest defrocked for sexual abuses, dies in Chile
Santiago, Chile AP Fernando Karadima, a Chilean priest who was at the centre of a sexual abuse scandal that has recently shaken the Catholic Church in Chile and who was eventually defrocked by the Pope, has died. He was 90. Karadima died on Sunday of bronchopneumonia and kidney failure in the nursing home where he […]