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SANTIAGO -(Dow Jones)- Chilean President Michelle Bachelet on Tuesday said the Peruvian government's accusations that a Peruvian military officer spied for Chile were "offensive and grandiloquent."
SANTIAGO, Chile, Nov. 20 (UPI) -- Bent on bolstering its defense capabilities, Chile has requested an estimated $665 million in arms and radar systems from the United States.
Nov. 20 (Bloomberg) -- Costanera Center sits half-finished at the heart of Santiago’s financial district, its exposed concrete and reinforcement bars contrasting with the glass-faced skyscrapers surrounding it. A banner at the silent, empty building site says “Icon of Latin American development.”
Peruvian officials said Tuesday that an air force officer has confessed to passing national security secrets to Chile, where President Michelle Bachelet denied the espionage allegations, calling them offensive.
Chile's President Michelle Bachelet on Tuesday condemned as haughty and offensive comments by Peru's leader Alan Garcia over a spy scandal that has stirred century-old tensions between the neighbors.
SANTIAGO -(Dow Jones)- Chile's foreign minister Mariano Fernandez sent a clear message on Thursday that trade with Peru wouldn't be damaged, at least for now, because of Peru's accusations of Chilean espionage in their country.
Nov. 19 (Bloomberg) -- Chile’s Central Bank President Jose De Gregorio said the bank doesn’t rule out intervening in the currency market. De Gregorio made the remarks today at a conference in Santiago, according to a copy of his speech posted on the central bank’s Web site.
Santiago - Valeria Garcia has come a long way in the past two decades. As a high school dropout, she lived in a wooden shack with a dirt-floor kitchen and a tin roof in San Ramn, one of the Chilean capital's roughest neighborhoods. But at age 33 she went back to high school and then earned a degree in psychology from a local university. For seven years she commuted an hour each day by bus to ...
SANTIAGO, Chile, Nov. 17 (UPI) -- The Chilean government, after talking with its ambassador to Peru, has reiterated its denial of spying on its South American neighbor.
SANTIAGO (Dow Jones)--It's highly likely that Chile will be invited to join the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development in December, Finance Minister Andres Velasco said Tuesday.
SANTIAGO -(Dow Jones)- Uruguay is interested in buying gas from Chile's new liquified natural gas regasification plant and has approached state oil and gas company Empresa Nacional del Petroleo to discuss the feasibility of such a deal, La Tercera newspaper reported.
NEW YORK and SANTIAGO, Chile, Nov.
Peruvian President Alan Garcia said Saturday he was cancelling planned talks with his Chilean counterpart Michelle Bachelet and leaving a regional summit a day early over an espionage row.
Nov. 20 (Bloomberg) -- Chile’s peso fell to a one-week low after central bank President Jose De Gregorio said the bank doesn’t rule out buying dollars in the currency market to stem the local currency’s rally.
Nov. 20 (Bloomberg) -- Workers at BHP Billiton Ltd .’s Cerro Colorado copper mine in Chile agreed to a pay increase as the world’s largest mining company seeks to end a strike in another unit.
The LeBow College of Business hosted José Goñi, the Chilean ambassador to the United States, Nov. 13 as part of its "A View from the Top" lecture series, which introduces notable leaders of the world to Drexel students and community. Goñi's presentation largely dealt with Chile's success over the past decade, and focused on the country's poverty rates and economic data over recent years.
