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The main border crossing between Argentina and Chile reopens after several days of closure due to heavy snowfall.
2022-07-22

Chile reports a record 26,727 new COVID-19 cases in the past 24 hours, thereby bringing the nationwide total of confirmed cases to 2.075 million.
2022-01-28

Colombian, Spanish and French journalists are arrested and detained by SEBIN agents in Caracas. All four work for Spanish news agency EFE. The arrests follow the deportation of two Chilean journalists yesterday.
2019-01-31

A wildfire destroys almost the entire town of Santa Olga in Chile's central Maule Region as a Russian firefighting Ilyushin Il-76 arrives to help fight the worst wildfire in Chile's modern history.
2017-01-27

Chilean officers start to grant civil unions licences to both heterosexual and homosexual couples, marking the first time a same-sex relationship is officially recognized in the country.
2015-10-22

Chile begins attempts to rescue 33 miners trapped underground as a result of the 2010 Copiapó mining accident.
2010-10-12

It is expected to take 120 days (4 months) to free the 33 miners trapped underground near Copiapó in the Atacama Desert after it is confirmed that they are all currently alive.
2010-08-23

There is a further cave-in at the mine near Copiapó, Chile where people have been working since Thursday to rescue 34 miners trapped underground; work is currently suspended in an incident that is rare in that part of the world.
2010-08-8

Efforts intensify to rescue at least 34 people trapped in a mine near Copiapó, Chile, in the Atacama Desert.
2010-08-7