Sources: FOX News
Five tourists are killed in a blizzard in Torres del Paine National Park in Chilean Patagonia, where military and police rescue four others and continue search and rescue operations. 2025-11-17
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
The Chilean Constitutional Convention approves defining the country as a "Social State" in the new fundamental law, a fact that various constituents and experts interpret as a turning point in the country's history. 2022-04-12
The process of impeachment against Chilean President Sebastián Piñera moves to the Senate after passing the lower-chamber overnight. In order to remove Piñera from power, the impeachment will need to pass the Senate with a two-thirds vote. 2021-11-9
Chile's Institute of Public Health issues an emergency use authorization for the Sputnik V vaccine. 2021-07-21
The Roman Catholic Church defrocks Father Fernando Karadima, a priest at the center of a sex abuse scandal in Chile. 2018-09-28
Google announces that Project Loon – to provide wireless access to four billion unconnected people around the globe in rural and remote areas via Internet-beaming helium balloons in the stratosphere – will be tested in Indonesia in 2016. Currently, one in three Indonesians are connected to the web, mostly via slow connections, in this 17,508-island archipelago of over 250 million people (and about 319 million mobile phones). The company, which also tested Loon-delivered internet in Chile, New Mexico (U.S.), and Sri Lanka, hopes to deliver LTE-speed to more than 100 million unconnected Indonesians in five years. 2015-10-29
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
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
Chilean looters return £1.3 million ($2million) of stolen goods, according to the government. 2010-03-8