President Sebastián Piñera Echenique President-elect Sebastián Piñera is preparing to take power in Chile with his inauguration set to take place today. The future President began an intense round of bilateral meetings on Wednesday morning where he welcomed 19 foreign delegates from different countries, including the Presidents of Colombia and Bolivia and the Prince of Asturias. The first... 

Chile helps Chile The 25 hour Chilean telethon called “Chile ayuda a Chile” (Chile helps Chile) raised $30.1 billion pesos ($59.2 million U.S. Dollars) over the weekend.  The United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has pledged up to $10 million dollars to Chile from the United Nations fund for earthquake relief.  “Chile helps Chile” aims to build at least 30,000 temporary... 

Chilean civil servants are on strike today, after last week’s protests.  Civil servants are still requesting a general pay rise of 8 to 10 per cent for salaries below 800 thousand pesos. During the last negotiations, the government only agreed to a 2.5 per cent increase. This time, health workers are also joining the movement and are calling on patients to turn to health services in case of emergency... 

The 11th annual gay pride march in Santiago this past Saturday was organized by Acción Gay and the group MUMS, the Unified Movement for Sexual Minorities. Those gathered at Plaza Italia listened to a number of speakers including local politicians, musicians and actors. Gabriela Mistral was the theme of several talks and performance pieces. The Chilean Nobel Prize winner was definitively outed with...