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SANTIAGO, Chile — SANTIAGO, Chile (AP) — Google signed an agreement with Chile on Wednesday to deploy an undersea fiber optic cable connecting South America with Asia and Oceania, a first-of-its-kind project that aims to cement the South American country’s status as a major digital hub. The Humboldt Cable, envisioned for deployment in 2027, is […]
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MONTEVIDEO, Uruguay — In the soaring palace of Uruguay’s parliament, leftist presidents from the region came to remember former President José Mujica on Thursday as a generous and charismatic leader whose legacy of humility remained an example for the world’s politicians. “A person like Pepe Mujica doesn’t die,” Brazil’s President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva […]
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MONTEVIDEO, Uruguay — Crowds poured into the streets of Uruguay’s capital on Wednesday to bid a poignant farewell to former President José Mujica, a guerrilla fighter-turned-pioneering leader who became an icon of the Latin American left, remembered most for his humility, simple lifestyle and ideological earnestness. Thousands of people mourning the death of their former […]
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SANTIAGO, Chile — An earthquake with a magnitude of 7.4 struck off the southern coasts of Chile and Argentina on Friday, prompting the evacuation of the Chilean coastline throughout the Magallanes region and the suspension of water activities and navigation in Argentina’s Tierra del Fuego province. No damage or casualties were initially reported. The United […]
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SANTIAGO, Chile — As a child, Susana Moreira didn’t have the same energy as her siblings. Over time, her legs stopped walking and she lost the ability to bathe and take care of herself. Over the last two decades, the 41-year-old Chilean has spent her days bedridden, suffering from degenerative muscular dystrophy. When she finally […]
Continue Reading SANTIAGO, Chile — China struck a defiant stance on Tuesday in response to American concerns about Beijing’s efforts to expand its influence in the resource-rich South American nation of Chile, escalating tensions over a Chinese astronomical venture in Chile’s arid north. At a press conference Tuesday in Chile’s capital of Santiago, China’s ambassador to Chile, […]
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SAO PAULO — Chile will formally request that the United States extradite a Venezuelan man to stand trial over the abduction and killing of a Venezuelan ex-army officer and dissident last year in Chile, prosecutors said Thursday. It’s the latest twist in a closely watched case that sent chills through Venezuela’s vast diaspora. Chile alleges […]
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SANTIAGO, Chile — Uruguay’s former guerilla-turned-president, José Mujica, announced on Thursday that the cancer in his esophagus had spread to his liver, and that he had chosen to forgo further treatment. In what Mujica said would be his last interview, he told Busqueda, a weekly news magazine in Uruguay, that he was “doomed.” “Honestly, I […]
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SANTIAGO, Chile — A former senior official in Chile’s government was arrested Thursday on suspicion of rape, authorities said, in a case that has shocked the South American country and dented domestic support for leftist President Gabriel Boric. Manuel Monsalve, 59, who until last month served as Chile’s deputy interior minister and played a key […]
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SANTIAGO, Chile — It’s Friday night in Downtown Santiago, the capital of Chile, and a group of 15 people gather around a table, sharing a bottle of wine as the smell of tobacco and incense fill the air. Black candles burn on top of an altar decorated with chalices and knives. The members of the […]
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