Sources: FOX News
Six people are killed and nine others are injured after a w.2 earthquake causes a collapse at the El Teniente copper mine near Machalí, O'Higgins Region, Chile. 2025-07-31
The European Southern Observatory announces that its astronomers in Chile capture the first close-up image of a star outside the Milky Way. 2024-11-21
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
Chilean President Sebastián Piñera fires all sitting ministers of his government. 2019-10-27
Ecuador, Peru, Brazil, Colombia, and Chile tighten border controls for Venezuelan migrants. Over 7% of Venezuela’s total population has fled the nation in two years. 2018-08-19
Devastating floods in northern Chile leave at least 25 dead and more than 100 missing. 2015-04-5
The President of Chile Michelle Bachelet declares the northern part of Chile to be a disaster zone including the regions of Arica y Parinacota, and Tarapacá. 2014-04-2
Rescue efforts conclude for the Chilean miners trapped in the 2010 Copiapó mining accident, with the last miner being rescued at 9:56PM local time. 2010-10-13
The 33 miners involved in the 2010 Copiapó mining accident in Chile receive their first hot meal in 26 days: it consists of meatballs, chicken and rice through a tube. 2010-09-1
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