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The pontiff has expelled two Chilean bishops from the priesthood after they were accused of sexual abuse involving minors, the Vatican confirmed. The case concerns Francisco Jose Cox Huneeus, archbishop emeritus from the city of La Serena, and Marco Antonio Ordenes Fernandez, bishop emeritus from Iquique. Defrocking, the harshest punishment the Pope can inflict on […]
[unable to retrieve full-text content] Filed under: Green,Electric,Hybrid Third of the world’s supply of lithium is in a salt-flats aquifer there Continue reading In Chilean desert, global thirst for lithium fuels a water war In Chilean desert, global thirst for lithium fuels a water war originally appeared on Autoblog on Sat, 01 Sep 2018 09:00:00 […]
Before heading to Chile, Carménère wine, alcoholic ice cream floats and Chilean riffs on disco fries were high on my must-stuff-in-my-face agenda. However, sampling the famed chacarero sandwich from Santiago’s most well-known fuente de soda (the Chilean cousin of a greasy spoon) topped my list. Composed of ingredients so thinly sliced they rival its skinny […]
With people, it’s the quiet ones you have to watch out for. With drinks, it’s the sickly sweet concoctions that will give you the raging hangover. And in Chile, it’s the terremoto cocktail that will leave you unsteady. It may look like liquid cotton candy and have an innocent-appearing scoop of pineapple ice cream bobbing […]
A bombshell report by the Chilean judiciary has revealed that hundreds of children illegally adopted by foreigners during the Pinochet dictatorship were sent to the US. A judge overseeing the probe called it “kidnapping.” Judge Mario Carroza’s report, released Sunday, followed a probe into 579 adoptions between 1950 and 2001, 488 of those during the […]
Pope Francis admitted Saturday that he can sometimes struggle with modern technology while joking that both he and his predecessor are on the “waiting list” for sainthood. “I don’t know how to use online networks and that kind of thing, not even mobile phones, I don’t have one,” the 81-year-old pontiff told his audience in […]
Published time: 16 Dec, 2017 23:36 Two local women and a male tourist have died after a mudslide hit the small southern Chilean town of Villa Santa Lucia, located near the Corcovado National Park, renowned for its volcanoes, on Saturday. Three people were injured in the incident and airlifted to a hospital. The death toll, […]
Published time: 16 Jul, 2017 07:06 At least one person is dead and about 337,000 households were left without power as rare snowfall hit the Chilean capital, Santiago. The unusual weather saw temperatures dropping below zero, said to be the lowest in almost a decade. The one fatality was a worker who was clearing ice, […]
As one of two Chilean policemen sent to look after the South American fans, Alejandro Montero Zuniga sometimes feels like he is responsible for the image of the whole nation, but so far has nothing but pride, ahead of their team’s Confederations Cup semi-finals. “No incidents have occurred so far, the Chilean fans are being […]
