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Chile's Ministry of Health reports its country's first COVID-19 death in an 83-year woman from Renca, Santiago. The country has more than 500 confirmed cases, the second-largest number in South America after Brazil.
2020-03-21

Chile confirms its first case of COVID-19 in the Maule region.
2020-03-3

After a week of fare-dodging protests in the Santiago Metro, thousands of protestors clash with police in different places across Santiago, Chile. Subway service is suspended in the entire city. Protests started after a price hike in the most expensive subway system in Latin America.
2019-10-18

The death toll from the earthquake passes 650 with over 50 people missing. It is now the deadliest earthquake in South America this century.
2016-04-23

Violent storms cause floods across Uruguay with seven people killed and more than 2,000 left homeless. Four of those were killed by a tornado that struck Dolores. Four million people in the Chilean capital of Santiago were left without tap water as heavy rains triggered landslides. This led to the fouling of the city's water supply.
2016-04-18

People in North America, Australia, western South America and parts of East Asia will be able to see a lunar eclipse today.
2014-10-8

Venezuelan police shoot dead the daughter of a Chilean diplomat at a police checkpoint at the city of Maracaibo after the vehicle she was travelling in refused to stop - 11 police officers are under investigation.
2012-03-17

Australian airlines QANTAS and Virgin Australia suspends flights to Perth, Western Australia, due to ash from the eruption in Chile, with flights to Tasmania and New Zealand also cancelled.
2011-06-15

Astronomers at the European Southern Observatory's Very Large Telescope (VLT) in Chile track the motion of gas giant Beta Pictoris b, the first time an extra-solar planet is tracked in orbit around a young star.
2010-06-11