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Chile's police arrest at least 55 people in one of the country's largest fiscal fraud cases, amounting to about $275 million and implicating small- and mid-sized companies in different parts of the country. The suspects will stand trial for tax crimes, criminal association, money laundering, customs fraud and making false declarations.
2023-12-15

Chile begins to administer booster shots of the COVID-19 vaccine for people over the age of 55 who have already received two doses of the Coronavac vaccine.
2021-08-11

Chile begins its vaccination campaign against COVID-19 after the arrival of 10,000 doses of Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine to the country.
2020-12-24

Gold Fields Ltd, a South African mining company, has hired an investment bank, RBC Capital Markets, to help it sell 30% of its gold project in northern Chile.
2020-01-21

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 magnitude 6.7 earthquake hits Coquimbo, Chile. Light damage is reported and thousands of homes lose power.
2019-01-19

Voters in Chile go to the polls for the second round of a presidential election with former President Michelle Bachelet elected again.
2013-12-15

A magnitude 6 earthquake occurs off the coast of Chile near Valparaíso.
2011-07-15

All 33 Chilean miners trapped deep underground are located alive after 17 days, though they have not yet been removed from the mine and remain trapped.
2010-08-22

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