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Santiago, Chile, Feb 15 (Prensa Latina) More than 8,000 Chilean port workers will stage a strike on Wednesday and Thursday against improper taxation over the past 30 years. Robinson Avila, a ...  

* World's top copper mine produced 819,261 tns in 2011 * Lower ore grades, 2-week strike hit output * BHP, Rio approved $4.5 bln Escondida expansion SANTIAGO, Feb 15 (Reuters) - Output from the world's largest copper mine, Chile's Escondida ...  

Buenos días! It's just past lunchtime here in Santiago, Chile, the temperature is 80 degrees, the sun is out and some empanadas are happily sitting in our stomach. We just arrived to SCL early this morning, on the LAN direct overnight flight from New York-JFK, putting us in the center of town in time for breakfast. Getting the touristy stuff out of the way, the Mercado Central was a first stop for its architecture (it was opened in the late...  

Santiago is the capital and the largest city of Chile. Just months after it was founded on the banks of the Mapocho River by Spanish conquistadors, the settlement was nearly wiped out by the indigenous Mapuche peoples. Today, it is one of the largest cities in South America, having survived the 1647 earthquake that leveled the city, frequent flooding from the Mapocho, and a number of other calamities. What meteorological phenomenon traps smog...  

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SANTIAGO, CHILE -- (MARKET WIRE) -- 02/10/12 -- Li3 Energy, Inc., (OTCBB: LIEG) ("Li3", "Li3 Energy" or the "Company"), a US-listed and South American based global exploration and development company in the lithium and minerals sector, is pleased to ...  

SANTIAGO, Chile, Feb. 1, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Banco Santander Chile (NYSE: SAN; SSE: Bsantander) announced today its unaudited results for the fourth quarter and full year 2011. These results are reported on a consolidated basis in accordance with Chilean GAAP in nominal Chilean pesos....  

#FIGTest12 … you assumed this post was about the great mustachioed Tomás González. Nope. CONGRATULATIONS to Simona Castro. … University of Denver junior gymnast Simona Castro (Santiago, Chile) made history on her 23rd birthday, becoming the first Chilean woman to qualify for a gymnastics spot in the Olympic Games … details Click PLAY or watch [...]  

Santiago de Chile 16.01.2012 (www.emfis.com) Codelco hat schnellen Erfolg vor dem Gericht in Chile: dieses verbietet Anglo American weitere Verkäufe von Anteilen an Anglo American Sur.Wie lokale Medien mitteilten, habe das Gericht in Santiago in einem Eilverfahren den Antrag von Codelco (EMFIS berichtete) verhandelt. Als Ergebnis darf Anglo American keine Anteile an dem Gemeinschaftsunternehmen mehr verkaufen, solange der Fall bei dem Gericht...  

SANTIAGO, Chile, Jan. 3 (UPI) -- A wildfire charred 50 square miles of Torres del Paine National Park in southern Chile, Finance Minister Paul Longueira said Tuesday. Longueira viewed the damage from a helicopter before conferring by video link with...  

Last week, Juncos Racing team principal Ricardo Juncos traveled south to Santiago, Chile where he signed a momentous agreement with the Formula 3 Association and the Chilean Federation of Motor Racing (FADECH) that will allow each year's Chilean Formula 3 ...  

Associated Press SANTIAGO, Chile (AP) - An 84-year-old American making his seventh attempt to sail alone around the tip of South America was found tired but alive by the Chilean Navy on Wednesday after his mast broke far from land in the South Pacific. The Chilean Navy located Thomas Louis Corogin on his 32-foot sailboat more than 520 miles (850 kilometers) south of Easter Island, stranded but in relatively stable weather, with ocean swells...  

Look at the map: Chile is a very long, thin country – from north to south it stretches further than the distance from London to Baghdad. Which means that the position of Santiago de Chile, at its geographical centre, is paramount. Almost every traveller ...  

SANTIAGO, Chile — The Supreme Court of Chile on Jan. 20 convicted two retired generals over charges they illegally trafficked weapons to Croatia in 1991 in violation of a U.N. arms embargo during the war in the former Yugoslavia. Former Air Force Gen.  

Baltasar Garzon, the Spanish judge who famously indicted late Chilean leader Augusto Pinochet, has found himself in the dock for the first time. He went on trial at the supreme court in Madrid charged with illegally authorising police to bug the ...