America Chile Fima, an NGO, installed an ice sculpture at the Chilean Museum of Fine Arts to emphasize how the new constitution - that is yet in progress - needs to address climate change in an urgent manner
America Chile The country positively closed the year since unemployment reached pre-pandemic levels and the economy grew by approximately 11,5%
America Chile Since 1995, many citizens spend New Year's Eve or Day in cemeteries to include the loved deceased in their celebrations
America Chile Gabriel Boric is the new president elected, at 35 the youngest in the country’s history; he got over 55% of the votes in elections that recorded a turnout of nearly 56%, the highest since voting stopped being mandatory in 2012
America Chile Scientists have found traces of a dinosaur species with a unique slashing tail weapon; the bizarre palaeontological discovery uncovers a whole new branch of the ankylosaur family of dinosaurs
America Chile After the recent legislative elections, Emilia Schneider officially became the first ever transgender woman to be an elected deputy
America Chile 39.000 tons of unused fast fashion items were dumped in the Atacama desert this year since they contain chemicals that can’t be incorporated into landfills, resulting in huge textile mountains in the middle of the desert and massive pollution
America Chile The Mapuche Indigenous community is violently claiming its territory back in the country’s southern region, leading to President Sebastian Piñera extending the state of emergency in that area
America Chile Thousands of protesters took to the streets to mark the second anniversary of the first manifestations against inequality that led to the still ongoing re-writing of the Constitution
America Chile In the past month the country had a 1.2% inflation increase, this being its biggest monthly inflation rise in 13 years
America Chile Xenophobic protests took place in the country’s northern region, resulting in locals burning personal belongings of Venezuelan migrants trying to enter the state
America Chile The country announced that it will reopen its borders to international tourists right before its summer, in order to revive the national tourism sector that has been blocked since the pandemic struck