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Cecilia Vicuña: Brain Forest Quipu; Richard Mosse: Broken Spectre review – the world worn down

The cavernous Turbine Hall has become a spectral memory forest as Chilean artist Cecilia Vicuña mourns the destruction of the Amazon rainforest

The Guardian - UK · Oct 16, 2022

He's known as Chile's greatest poet, but feminists say Pablo Neruda is canceled

"He's been canceled," a Chilean activist says of 20th century poet and Nobel laureate Pablo Neruda. Five decades after his death, feminists are denouncing him as a male chauvinist and sexual predator.

WEKU · Oct 15, 2022

After spate of gangster heists, Chile boosts security on copper trains

Chilean authorities will beef up security on trains carrying cargoes of copper, a senior official said on Thursday, after a spate of violent heists that have been blamed on international organized crime gangs.

Reuters · Oct 14, 2022

Cecilia Vicuña review – the most moving Tate Turbine Hall installation for years

The Chilean artist and poet has hung up huge mobiles of fraying wool, knotted rope and debris mudlarked from the Thames, as an elegy to lost language and wilful destruction

The Guardian - UK · Oct 10, 2022

For Chileans blinded in police violence, making music has become one path to healing

All members of Hacía la Victoria ("Onward to Victory") sustained eye injuries during clashes with police in anti-government protests in 2019. Their lyrics focus on police brutality and their own pain.

WEKU · Oct 10, 2022

The Cordillera of Dreams review – a poetic portrait of Chile

The Andes become a metaphor for Chile’s rocky political history in Patricio Guzmán’s highly personal film about his homeland

The Guardian - UK · Oct 9, 2022

Chile permanently closes mining areas connected to giant sinkhole

Chile's mining minister announced on Friday the permanent closure of mining stopes directly related to a giant sinkhole that appeared in the northern part of the country in July.

Reuters · Oct 7, 2022

Chile's Easter Island 'Moai' statues face irreparable damage after wildfire

A number of Easter Island's iconic 'Moai' stone statues suffered irreparable damage after a wildfire swept through the island earlier this week, the island's mayor told Reuters on Friday.

Reuters · Oct 7, 2022

Blinken Underlines Close Cooperation with Saudi Arabia to Extend Truce in Yemen

The UN Security Council expressed “deep disappointment” at the Houthis’ failure to engage with the Special Envoy for Yemen, Hans Grundberg, to extend the truce in Yemen for another six months. US Secretary of State Antony Blinken announced during a joint press conference with Chile’s Foreign Minister Antonia Oriola in…

Asharq Al-Awsat · Oct 7, 2022

Chile files charges against mining company for giant sinkhole

Chile's environmental regulator announced on Thursday four charges against Canadian-owned Lundin copper mine for a sinkhole that appeared at the site of one of its mines the north of the country in late July.

Reuters · Oct 6, 2022