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Chile Launches 120-Day Commission to Overhaul Public Employment Rules
President José Antonio Kast and Finance Minister Jorge Quiroz have given a 12-member expert panel 120 days to propose ch...
Codelco Restructures Leadership and Splits Operations to Stabilise Copper Output
New CEO Jorge Gómez names five vice presidents and splits supervision into northern and central-southern units, shifting...
Chile's Constitutional Court Upholds Tax Stability in Reconstruction Law, Rejects Salmon Clauses
Finance Minister Jorge Quiroz called the Constitutional Court ruling 'unequivocally satisfactory' after it upheld tax in...
Chile's Court Keeps Investment Tax Breaks, Kills Environmental Compensation Clause
Constitutional ruling leaves most investment invariability intact but strikes state compensation for revoked environment...
US Accuses Chile and 40-Plus Countries of Aiding Chinese Tariff Evasion
A White House report puts Chile in Level 3 of an alleged shadow transshipment network. Chile says it was never consulted...
Chile's Public-Sector Reform Push Gains Expert Backing, With Focus on Contracts and Merit Pay
Named policy experts are urging a wholesale rewrite of Chile's civil service statute to end the planta-contrata split an...
Chile Asks Constitutional Court to Uphold Tax Stability and RCA Restitution in Reconstruction Law
The executive filed three briefs defending long-term tax invariability and restitution for revoked environmental permits...
Chile, Latin America's Top-Rated Sovereign, Faces Fresh Downgrade Risk Over Tax Cuts
Fitch warns Chile's recent tax cuts may not deliver the growth needed to offset lost revenue, leaving the 2027 budget as...
Chile Supreme Court Overturns CMF’s Closure of Sartor Fund Manager Over Due Process Violation
The top court ruled the regulator illegally revoked Sartor AGF’s existence without a formal sanction proceeding, reinsta...
Sartor AGF’s Lead Partner Admits Failure to Restructure Funds Amid Illiquid Asset Exposure
Pedro Pablo Larraín’s defense lawyer says his client recognizes the asset manager should have adapted to growing illiqui...
Chile's Role in Vaca Muerta: Chamber Pitches Biobío LNG Plant to Reach Asia-Pacific
The Neuquén petrochemical chamber says Vaca Muerta accounts for 70% of investment pledges under Argentina's RIGI and is ...
Cape Verde's World Cup Star Vozinha Signs For Chile's Colo-Colo Until December 2026
Veteran goalkeeper Vozinha joins Colo-Colo on the most lucrative deal of his career, earning about $50,000 a month after...
Dominga López Wins Miss Universo Chile 2026, Heads to San Juan Final
Dominga López, Miss Viña del Mar, was crowned Miss Universo Chile 2026 and will represent Chile at the Miss Universe fin...
Chilean Prosecutor Targets Money Laundering in Azul Azul Takeover as Sartor Case Widens
The public prosecutor’s office alleges funds used to finance the purchase of control of football club Universidad de Chi...
Fuel Prices in Chile to Rise Around 30 Pesos Per Litre Starting Thursday
After a brief respite, gasoline and diesel prices will climb again as the government’s Mepco smoothing mechanism reaches...
Chile Government to Auction Over 100 Fiscal Properties Valued at US$70 Million Through New Public Portal
The Ministry of National Assets announced the first batch of state property sales from vacant inheritances and failed te...
DiDi Urges Chile to Drop 'Analog' Rules as Ride-Hailing Decree Heads for Second Hearing
DiDi’s corporate affairs chief tells Chile’s Digital Summit that modern platform regulation must be built on technical d...
Chile’s Central Bank Holds Rate at 4.5% as Middle East Tensions Cloud Outlook
The Banco Central de Chile left its benchmark rate unchanged at 4.5%, citing renewed oil price shocks from the US-Iran c...
Arturo Fermandois to Lead Chile’s Constitutional Defense Over Tax Stability and Annulled Permit Compensation
The former ambassador and UDI member will coordinate the government’s legal team as the opposition challenges key provis...
Chilean Subcontractors Trapped by Factoring Firms After Spanish Builder Abandons Housing Projects, Prepare $3 Billion State Lawsuit
Subcontractors of a Spanish construction firm that halted public housing works in Chile face immediate liquidity pressur...
Chile’s Biminister Mas Warns of ‘Months of Bad News’ on Jobs as Business Groups Pitch Recovery Plans
Economy and Labor Minister Mas met with the CPC to launch “Modo Empleo” and heard sectoral proposals to lift employment,...
Chile’s June Commerce Data Signals Economic Rebound, Santander Reports
Santander’s analysis of sector indices suggests Chile’s Imacec expanded 2.5% in June, ending five months of declines, th...
Puerto Montt Aims to Cement Global Salmon Capital Status with 100-Metre Cancato
Salmon Week 2026 in southern Chile showcases the aquaculture industry’s role in driving tourism and exports, with a gian...
Valparaíso Port Expansion Approved After 12-Year Environmental Standoff
Chile's Committee of Ministers has cleared the Terminal Cerros de Valparaíso expansion, unlocking a US$380 million inves...
Kast Government Loses Two More Regional Secretaries in a Day, Pushing Turnover to 28 in Four Months
The resignations of the Labour seremi in Tarapacá and the Housing seremi in Maule bring the total of regional ministeria...
Chile Seeks to Exempt Salmon, Fruit and Wood from 12.5% U.S. Tariff After Sending Product List to USTR
Chilean officials have sent a list of products to the U.S. Trade Representative, arguing that goods such as salmon, frui...
Chile Tax Reform Could Lift M&A Valuations by 5%, Experts Warn
A planned cut in corporate tax from 27% to 23% would increase after-tax cash flows and potentially lower the cost of cap...
Deadly Storm Disrupts Chilean Copper Mines, Threatening AI and Energy Supply Chains
Extreme snowfall and floods forced multiple top miners to halt operations in Chile, the world's largest copper supplier,...
A 60,000-Tonne Clothing Mountain in Chile's Desert, Visible From Space, Exposes Fast Fashion's Waste Crisis
Europe exports a third of the world's discarded clothes, and much of it ends up in the Atacama Desert in Chile, creating...
Magnitude 4.1 Earthquake Rattles Calama, Chile — No Damage Reported
A moderate tremor struck near the northern Chilean city of Calama early Wednesday. No injuries or structural harm have b...