America Chile After 152 years, the moai dubbed Moai Tau was brought back to its home land in a significant gesture for the Rapa Nui, the native people of Easter Islands; the human-like statue had been previously exhibited at the National Museum of Natural History
America Chile The country declared a state of emergency in its northern region due to the heavy ongoing protests against migrants
America Chile The nation became the first Latin-American state to offer the fourth dose of the Covid-19 vaccine
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