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Google says it will rethink its plans for a big data center in Chile over water worries
Read full article: Google says it will rethink its plans for a big data center in Chile over water worriesGoogle says it will halt plans to develop a major $200 million data center in Chile to address environmental concerns.
Stolen at birth, an adoptee sues Chile over thousands of similar dictatorship-era crimes
Read full article: Stolen at birth, an adoptee sues Chile over thousands of similar dictatorship-era crimesA Chilean-American raised in the United States has filed a criminal complaint against the state of Chile alleging that it engaged in a systematic plan to steal thousands of babies from perceived enemies of the state in the 1970s and 1980s.
Chile accuses volunteer firefighter and ex-forestry official with causing huge fire that killed 137
Read full article: Chile accuses volunteer firefighter and ex-forestry official with causing huge fire that killed 137A Chilean judge has ordered a volunteer firefighter and a former forestry official detained for allegedly planning and causing a mammoth forest fire that caused 137 deaths and made 16,000 people homeless in February.
The Italian Open was where Zverev's career took off. Another title in Rome signals a career revival
Read full article: The Italian Open was where Zverev's career took off. Another title in Rome signals a career revivalAlexander Zverev put on a serving clinic in a 6-4, 7-5 win over 24th-ranked Nicolas Jarry to claim his second Italian Open title and earn his biggest trophy since tearing his ankle apart two years ago.
Passenger describes people 'bounced off the roof' on plane that dropped during flight to New Zealand
Read full article: Passenger describes people 'bounced off the roof' on plane that dropped during flight to New ZealandOfficials are investigating what caused a “strong shake” before a sudden plunge on a plane traveling between Australia and New Zealand.
50 people are injured by a 'strong movement' on a plane traveling from Australia to New Zealand
Read full article: 50 people are injured by a 'strong movement' on a plane traveling from Australia to New ZealandOfficials say at least 50 people have been injured by what they described as a “strong movement” on a Chilean plane traveling from Sydney to Auckland, New Zealand.
Hundreds of people are missing as the death toll from Chile's wildfires reaches 123
Read full article: Hundreds of people are missing as the death toll from Chile's wildfires reaches 123Volunteers in central Chile are trying to remove charred metal, broken glass and other debris in neighborhoods destroyed by forest fires that have killed at least 123 people in densely populated areas over the past three days.
Forest fires rage on in central Chile, killing at least 112 people over 3 days
Read full article: Forest fires rage on in central Chile, killing at least 112 people over 3 daysFirefighters are wrestling with massive forest fires that broke out in central Chile, as officials impose new curfews in the cities most heavily affected by the blazes.
Kissinger's unwavering support for brutal regimes still haunts Latin America
Read full article: Kissinger's unwavering support for brutal regimes still haunts Latin AmericaLeftists in Chile were tortured, tossed from helicopters and forced to watch relatives be raped during the military dictatorship of Gen. Augusto Pinochet.
Santiago opens Pan American Games with nod to the Indigenous, poetry and memory of dictatorship
Read full article: Santiago opens Pan American Games with nod to the Indigenous, poetry and memory of dictatorshipThe opening ceremony of Chile’s first Pan American Games was not only a celebration of athletes, Indigenous peoples and poetry, but laid bare the politically divided country’s scars from the military dictatorship of Gen. Augusto Pinochet from 1973 until 1990.
TV equipment stolen from Pan Am Games' opening ceremony site in Chile, boosting security concerns
Read full article: TV equipment stolen from Pan Am Games' opening ceremony site in Chile, boosting security concernsTelevision crews at the Pan American Games had equipment stolen this week from the compound of Estadio Nacional, the site of Friday’s opening ceremony, heightening concerns about crime at the tournament hosting over 6,800 athletes.
Inspired by llamas, the desert and Mother Earth, these craftswomen weave sacred textiles
Read full article: Inspired by llamas, the desert and Mother Earth, these craftswomen weave sacred textilesIn the middle of the Atacama Desert, in northern Chile, the colors and patterns of Aymara textiles are inspired by the land that is considered sacred.
In Chile, justice eludes victims of Catholic clergy sex abuse years after the crisis exploded
Read full article: In Chile, justice eludes victims of Catholic clergy sex abuse years after the crisis explodedA clergy sex abuse scandal involving Chile’s most notorious pedophile, the priest Fernando Karadima, shook the South American country in 2010 in a way never seen in Latin America.
The Catholic Church defended human rights during Chile’s dictatorship. An archive tells the story
Read full article: The Catholic Church defended human rights during Chile’s dictatorship. An archive tells the storyThe archive of the Vicariate of Solidarity gives an account of a painful episode in Chile’s history: 47,000 instances of human rights violations during the dictatorship of General Augusto Pinochet, who took power after a military coup that deposed President Salvador Allende 50 years ago.
Rep. Ocasio-Cortez calls on US to declassify documents on Chile's 1973 coup
Read full article: Rep. Ocasio-Cortez calls on US to declassify documents on Chile's 1973 coupU.S. Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez says in Chile that it is imperative for the United States to declassify documents that could shed light on its involvement in the South American country’s 1973 coup.
Threatened by shortages, electric car makers race for supplies of lithium for batteries
Read full article: Threatened by shortages, electric car makers race for supplies of lithium for batteriesThreatened by possible shortages of lithium for electric car batteries, automakers are racing to lock in supplies of the once-obscure “white gold” in a politically and environmentally fraught competition from China to Nevada to Chile.
Chile: Conservatives will now control Constitution rewrite
Read full article: Chile: Conservatives will now control Constitution rewriteChile seemed on the cusp of a progressive revolution last year when a committee dominated by leftists drafted a bold new constitution to replace the country’s dictatorship-era charter.
Hundreds stuck at Peru-Chile border in crackdown on migrants
Read full article: Hundreds stuck at Peru-Chile border in crackdown on migrantsA migration crisis at the border between Chile and Peru is intensifying, with hundreds of people stranded, unable to cross into Peru in an effort to return to their home country of Venezuela.
New Easter Island statue found in volcanic crater's dry lake
Read full article: New Easter Island statue found in volcanic crater's dry lakeResearchers have found a new moai statue in a dry lake on the Chilean island of Rapa Nui, joining the approximately 1,000 other iconic monolithic sculptures on what is internationally known as Easter Island.
Chile wildfires spread amid heat wave as death toll rises
Read full article: Chile wildfires spread amid heat wave as death toll risesChile extended an emergency declaration to yet another region on Saturday as firefighters continued to struggle to control dozens of raging wildfires that have claimed at least 22 lives in the midst of a scorching heat wave that has broken records.
World court: Bolivia, Chile close together in river dispute
Read full article: World court: Bolivia, Chile close together in river disputeThe United Nations’ highest court has found little to rule on in a long-running dispute over a small river which flows from Bolivia to Chile as the Latin American neighbors had mostly resolved their conflict during the 6-year proceedings.
PHOTOS: Houston Zoo names newborn flamingo chicks in honor of Astros
Read full article: PHOTOS: Houston Zoo names newborn flamingo chicks in honor of AstrosThe Houston Zoo’s Chilean flamingo flock is expanding. This is the first time in six years the Zoo has successfully hatched flamingo eggs. The chicks have been named Astro and Orbit, in honor of Houston’s major league baseball team. Guests can see the two new chicks, along with several other flamingos, actively nesting on exhibit behind the Flamingo Terrace, or online on the Zoo’s Flamingo Cam.
Houston man stolen at birth during kidnapping ring in Chile reunited with his birth mother at Hobby Airport
Read full article: Houston man stolen at birth during kidnapping ring in Chile reunited with his birth mother at Hobby AirportWhat the recently unified family says began as a tragic story now has a beautiful outcome that came full cirlce right behind the doors of Hobby Airport.
Chile hospital integrates Native medicine, birth to death
Read full article: Chile hospital integrates Native medicine, birth to deathFrom its “intercultural delivery room" to protocols for doctors to approve herbal treatments from trusted traditional healers, the largest public hospital in Chile’s southern city of Osorno is finding new ways to incorporate Indigenous medicine.
On Chile rivers, Native spirituality and development clash
Read full article: On Chile rivers, Native spirituality and development clashFor the Mapuche, Chile’s largest Indigenous group and more than 10 percent of its population, a pristine river like the Truful Truful, flowing from a lava field under an Andean volcano, is the home of a spiritual force to revere, not a natural resource to exploit.
Rest in peace: Naval Academy midshipman recovered in Chilean lagoon after an apparent hiking accident, officials say
Read full article: Rest in peace: Naval Academy midshipman recovered in Chilean lagoon after an apparent hiking accident, officials sayThe body of a U.S. Naval Academy midshipman was recovered Sunday morning in Chile after he appeared to have lost his footing during a hike and then fell over a waterfall, according to the United States Naval Academy.
Chile court raises sentence in torture-killing of singer
Read full article: Chile court raises sentence in torture-killing of singerA Chilean court has increased the prison sentence for six former soldiers convicted in the 1973 kidnapping, torture and murder of folk singer Víctor Jara, as well as that of a government official.
Ex-protester, far-right lawmaker to meet in Chilean runoff
Read full article: Ex-protester, far-right lawmaker to meet in Chilean runoffA conservative lawmaker with a history of defending Chile’s military dictatorship and a former student protest leader are headed to a polarizing presidential runoff after failing to garner enough votes to win the country’s election outright.
Far-right lawmaker, ex-protester to meet in Chilean runoff
Read full article: Far-right lawmaker, ex-protester to meet in Chilean runoffTwo onetime outsiders hailing from opposite extremes of the political spectrum have received the most votes in Chile’s presidential election but have failed to garner enough support for an outright win, setting up what’s likely to be polarizing runoff in the region’s most advanced economy.
In uncertain times, Chileans vote with ballots and wallets
Read full article: In uncertain times, Chileans vote with ballots and walletsChileans are voting for president Sunday with a mix of dread, optimism and above all uncertainty about what lies ahead after a wave of social and political unrest that includes the current effort to rewrite the constitution.
Chile Senate rejects removing president in impeachment trial
Read full article: Chile Senate rejects removing president in impeachment trialThe Chilean Senate has rejected an opposition-initiated impeachment process to remove President Sebastián Piñera over allegations that he favored the sale of a family property that hinged on the government not declaring the land a nature reserve.
Haitians heading to US change plans, ready to wait in Mexico
Read full article: Haitians heading to US change plans, ready to wait in MexicoAs U.S. authorities moved out the last of the more than 14,000 migrants who gathered beside a border bridge in Del Rio, thousands of other Haitians en route between the border and South America are coming to the realization that a window of time has closed.
Spain's govt steps in to halt record rise in power prices
Read full article: Spain's govt steps in to halt record rise in power pricesSpain’s Socialist-led coalition government is slashing energy taxes and imposing a temporary windfall tax on the gains of energy companies in an attempt to drive down household electricity bills, which have surged to record highs and triggered an outcry.
Brutal attack prompts Spanish PM to hold hate crime meeting
Read full article: Brutal attack prompts Spanish PM to hold hate crime meetingSpanish Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez is convening an urgent meeting of a committee that oversees efforts to fight hate crime after hooded attackers beat a 20-year-old man in Madrid and used a knife to carve a profanity on one of his buttocks.
Karadima, priest defrocked for sexual abuses, dies in Chile
Read full article: Karadima, priest defrocked for sexual abuses, dies in ChileFernando Karadima, a Chilean priest who was at the center of a sexual abuse scandal that shook the Catholic Church in Chile and who was eventually defrocked by the pope, has died.
The end approaches for Chile's military-era constitution
Read full article: The end approaches for Chile's military-era constitutionConstitutions are pretty formulaic,” said the professor, David Law of the University of Hong Kong. A more inclusive country and the erasure of a much-amended relic of military rule, the 1980 constitution. Law, the Hong Kong professor, said South Africa's constitution “in particular is pushed as an example for every Global South/transitional/developing country out there. Not so clear.″Approved after the 1994 end of white racist rule, the South African constitution drew from codes in Germany, Canada, India, Namibia and elsewhere. “This is not a good analogy, but ask yourself how much constraint the U.S. Constitution would have imposed on Trump if Trump had final say over the meaning of the Constitution," Law said.
Daytime darkness: Total solar eclipse wows in Latin America
Read full article: Daytime darkness: Total solar eclipse wows in Latin AmericaA Mapuche Indigenous family uses special glasses to try and observe a total solar eclipse in Carahue, La Araucania, Chile, Monday, Dec. 14, 2020. The total eclipse was not visible from Carahue because of an overcast sky. (AP Photo/Esteban Felix)CARAHUE – Thousands of people gathered in the Chilean region of La Araucanía on Monday to witness a solar eclipse, rejoicing in the rare experience even though visibility was limited because of cloudy skies. Experts said the solar eclipse was partly visible in several other Latin American countries as well as parts of Africa and areas of the Pacific and Atlantic oceans. The next total solar eclipse in Chile is expected to occur in 28 years.
Rescue workers in Beirut hope to find survivor in rubble
Read full article: Rescue workers in Beirut hope to find survivor in rubbleLebanese and Chilean rescuers search in the rubble of a collapsed building after getting signals there may be a survivor, early Friday, Sept. 4, 2020, in Beirut, Lebanon. (AP Photo/Hussein Malla)BEIRUT Rescue workers resumed search operations early Friday in a building that collapsed last month in Beiruts deadly blast in hopes of finding a survivor under the rubble after a pulsing signal was detected. Search operations first began Thursday afternoon after a sniffer dog belonging to a Chilean search and rescue team detected something as the team was going through the neighborhood of Gemmayzeh and rushed toward the rubble. The army issued a statement Friday saying the Chilean team stopped work half an hour before midnight for fears that a wall might collapse, endangering them. On Friday morning, rescue workers were slowly removing debris with their hands and shovels digging a hole in the building.
A month on, signal in Beirut rubble raises hope for survivor
Read full article: A month on, signal in Beirut rubble raises hope for survivorChilean and Lebanese rescuers search in the rubble of a building that was collapsed in last month's massive explosion, after getting signals there may be a survivor under the rubble, in Beirut, Lebanon, Thursday, Sept. 3, 2020. Hopes were raised after the dog of a Chilean search and rescue team touring Gemmayzeh street, one of the hardest-hit in Beirut, ran toward the collapsed building. (AP Photo/Bilal Hussein)BEIRUT A pulsing signal was detected Thursday from under the rubble of a Beirut building that collapsed during the horrific port explosion in the Lebanese capital last month, raising hopes there may be a survivor still buried there. The origin of the pulsing signal was not immediately known but it set off a frantic search and raised new hope. So far, authorities have detained 25 people over last month's explosion, most of them port and customs officials.
Chilean man due to arrive in France to face murder charge
Read full article: Chilean man due to arrive in France to face murder chargeHe is charged in France with premeditated murder of Kurosaki whose body was never found. (Chile's Investigative Police via AP)PARIS A Chilean man accused of murdering a Japanese student in France nearly four years ago is expected to arrive at a Paris airport Friday morning after being extradited. He is charged in France with premeditated murder in the alleged 2016 slaying of Narumi Kurosaki, 21. Kurosaki disappeared in the early hours of Dec. 5, 2016, from her apartment in France. During court proceedings in Chile, Zepeda acknowledged that he had visited Kurosaki at her apartment on the night she disappeared, even though their romantic relationship had ended.