By Vijay Prashad and Taroa Zúñiga Silva News Americas, NEW YORK, NY, Tues. July 1, 2025: Jeanette Jara, born 1974, prevailed in the Chilean presidential primary of the four major left political forces held on 29 June 2025. With 60% of the vote, Jara …
Audio By Carbonatix SANTIAGO (Reuters) -Chile’s congress approved long-awaited legislation to speed up the permitting process for investment projects in the country on Tuesday. The law was a key demand from the country’s mining industry as well as …
Codelco, the state-owned copper producer in Chile, announced on Tuesday that it had received regulatory approval for an additional lithium quota. This cleared one of the last remaining obstacles to producing the battery metal via its Joint venture SQM is a …
Financing of the Aurora solar-plus-storage project was secured with financial entities Natixis CIB and BNP Paribas, with a VAT facility granted by BCI. Construction of the project is already underway and is carried out by Zelestra’s own engineering, …
A fairly significant visit by the Belgian Royal family to Chile was disrupted not once, but twice, after a HiFly Airbus A340-300 encountered several technical difficulties. The visit, which occurred last week, made headlines in Belgium after Portuguese wet …
Chile is rapidly moving to build more power generation capacity, with much of that effort focused on renewable energy resources and battery energy storage systems (BESS). The country as part of that ambition has a goal of producing at least 70% of its …
SANTIAGO (Reuters) -Chile’s economic activity rose 3.2% in May when compared to a year earlier driven by a strong performance of its key mining sector, but still landed below market forecasts, central bank data showed on Tuesday. The IMACEC index, which …
The service will initially be available at three locations in Santiago (Chile).Copec has launched a new tire change service as part of its people-centered innovation strategy, offering installations, rotations, and replacements at select service stations. …
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