Sources: BBC
Chilean President Sebastián Piñera announces his government's support for a bill legalizing same-sex marriage in Chile. 2021-06-1
Chile's health regulator approves a vaccine developed by the University of Oxford and AstraZeneca for emergency use in the country. 2021-01-27
Bolivia and Chile agree on a deal to return home hundreds of Bolivian migrants stranded at a makeshift camp in Santiago. The migrants will be transported to Iquique where they will spend 14 days in quarantine before finally returning to Bolivia. 2020-04-28
Chile confirms its first case of COVID-19 in the Maule region. 2020-03-3
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
Chile has declared a state of emergency and requested international help to help deal with forest fires. 2017-01-22
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
Protesters in Potosí, Bolivia, strengthen an anti-government protest by starting a hunger strike and cutting rail links to Chile. 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
Joran van der Sloot, a suspect in the disappearance of Natalee Holloway in Aruba, is extradited from Chile to Peru to face charges in the killing of a Peruvian woman. 2010-06-4