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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 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

Chilean opposition politicians agree to seek impeachment of President Sebastián Piñera due to potential conflict of interest and tax evasion, as revealed by the Pandora Papers which were released on Sunday.
2021-10-6

Chile reports nearly 50,000 active cases of COVID-19, a new record for the country. The country also announces that the entire Santiago Metropolitan Region will be put under lockdown beginning next Saturday.
2021-03-25

Voters in Chile head to the polls to elect a president, as well as positions in the Senate, the Chamber of Deputies, as well as regional boards.
2017-11-19

German Foreign Minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier apologizes that, for decades, German diplomats failed to act on abuses at Colonia Dignidad, the secretive German enclave in Chile whose story is told in the movie "Colonia".
2016-04-26

At least six firefighters die fighting wildfires in southern Chile with two badly burnt and one missing.
2012-01-5

Prime Minister of Turkey Recep Tayyip Erdoğan bypasses Argentina on his South American tour, opting to travel straight to Chile after Buenos Aires officials call off an event honouring Mustafa Kemal Atatürk due to what Turkey considers "hostile" interference from Armenian pressure groups.
2010-05-30

Former Nazi corporal and founder of Villa Baviera in Chile Paul Schäfer dies in prison at the age of 88.
2010-04-24