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Unemployment is rising faster among Hispanics than the rest of the U.S. population as the economy slows, a development that has ripple effects across the nation and into Latin America.
The steep, continuing U.S. housing downturn has had a...
A retired army colonel has been charged in the killing of renowned Chilean folk singer Victor Jara following the 1973 coup led by Gen. Augusto Pinochet.
Chile’s government will give victims of an erupting volcano cash, tax relief and financial help rebuilding their farms and businesses in a bid to get them to return to their homes, the interior minister said Tuesday.
A prosecutor was appointed Monday to investigate how a computer hacker accessed government data for 6 million Chileans and posted it to the Internet.
Remains of meals that included seaweed are helping confirm the date of a settlement in southern Chile that may offer the earliest evidence of humans in the Americas.
Police and soldiers were clearing the last remaining people from the shadow of a Chilean volcano on Thursday after a strong explosion spewed glowing-hot rocks.
A man with a guitar and a megaphone climbed atop a convenience store roof to serenade commuters with his musical protest of high gasoline prices _ until police halted the impromptu concert.
The long-dormant Chaiten volcano blasted ash some 20 miles (30 kilometers) into the Andean sky on Tuesday, forcing thousands to evacuate and fouling a huge stretch of the South American continent.
A man with a guitar and a megaphone climbed atop a convenience store roof to serenade commuters with his musical protest about high gasoline prices _ until police halted the impromptu concert.
The Chaiten volcano spewed lava and blasted ash 12 miles into the sky on Tuesday, prompting officials to order a total evacuation of nearby area.
Contract workers at Chile’s state copper company agreed to end a 20-day strike Monday that had idled production at three of its five mines, causing more than US$100 million (euro65 million) in losses.
The Atacama Desert is the driest place on the planet and many believe that agriculture is almost impossible on this land. But then modern designers along with their creativity and technological brilliance are making the impossible possible. This is...
In our imaginations, we have often built a castle in the clouds but Alberto Fernandez and Susana Ortega have conceptualized a tower that would touch the low-lying clouds of Chile to absorb its water and channel it to the dry Atacama Desert. The...
Dreams are natural and alluring to all, but only few have the courage and privilege to make them come true. If you too breeds the dream of having a dip in a sea or ocean and always fails to generate the guts to counter the high waves, the San...
Automobile industry is indeed gearing up for the next big automobile revolution and unlike the past, this time around it does not have anything to do with either the speed of the vehicles or the designing of the exterior. It has more to do with the...
Seems the world has gone crazy for the massive pools. Trouncing all the record holders in the swimming pool category, the San Alfonso pool in Chile has been acknowledged by Guinness World Records as being the world’s largest swimming pool.
It’s...
Cuban ailing leader Fidel Castro slamming the U.S. yet once again dubbed the 9/11 attacks as a misinformation by the American government to mislead the world in directing its terror tactics for its own interests. The fight of ideology seems to be...
Victoria Beckham once said that her sunglasses ‘hide a multitude of sins’ and she was very right. Posh herself proves it while going through the airport in L.A. where she revealed her puffy, make-up-free eyes or say tired eyes when forced to take...
The game of football is associated with violence among fans and players since its inception. Thursday eye-witnessed dual aggressions - first, the UEFA Cup first qualifying round match between Bosnian side Zrinjski Mostar and Serbian visitors Partizan...
A general view of a dried lake in Magallanes, south of Santiago.
Do you think the ground can open up and swallow a full lake? Well that is what scientists are speculating happened in a remote region of the Andes in Patagonia, Chile.
The lake...
As the days go by, more and more species are becoming threatened. Recently, the Chilean blue whale has been declared as an endangered species.
Each year a lot of blue whales visit the Gulf of Corcovado in Chile. This particular zone has become an...
