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- Fitch Affirms Chile's Long-Term Foreign Debt Rating At A
SANTIAGO -(Dow Jones)- Fitch Ratings Agency Wednesday affirmed Chile's long- term foreign and local currency sovereign issuer default ratings at single-A and single-A-plus, respectively, the agency said in a statement. It also maintained a positive
- Volcano shuts Chilean town for three months
SANTIAGO (Reuters) - Chile's town of Chaiten, until recently home to 4,500 people, will be shut for three months until it is no longer endangered by a cloud of hot ash from an erupting volcano, the government said on Wednesday. The Chaiten volcano, six
- Chile, Argentina Reach Agreement On Salta Power Plant Output
the Argentine government asked AES Gener, a unit of AES Corp. 'Using the usual channels of dialogue that we maintain with Argentine officials, we analyzed the situation and reached the conclusion that it wasn't necessary to carry out this operation with
- Meeting with CEOs is a global business practice -- Santiago
MANILA, Philippines -- Instead of fresh attacks, President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo should be praised for meeting with officials of China's ZTE Corp., Senator Miriam Defensor-Santiago said Wednesday. "It is global business practice for the two heads of
- Chile disease situation hits Marine Harvest results
- se Aulie Michelet MARINE Harvest said today it remains impacted by the on-going disease situation in Chile, giving a negative operational EBIT of MNOK 65 in the first quarter for the group. The company said that while the biological situation in Chile
- Chilean volcano eruption spares berry crops
(May 9, PACKER WEB EXCLUSIVE) A volcano eruption in southern Chile should not affect the country?s fruit and vegetable crops, importers, exporters and officials said. For several days in the first week of May, a volcano near the provincial capital of
- Nigeria: Obasanjo Should Be Held to Account - Lawmaker
A Member of the National Assembly from Benue State representing Ushongo/Kwande Federal Constituency, Hon. Chile Igbawua has thrown his weight behind the probe panels to investigate the immediate past administration in the country saying anyone who holds
- ENAP, Methanex Petition Chile for E&P of Dorado-Riquelme Block
Empresa Nacional del Petroleo (ENAP) and Methanex Chile today signed an agreement to request Chile's Ministry of Mining for a special petroleum operating contract (CEOP) in order to increase gas exploration and production activity in the Dorado-Riquelme
- Marine Q1 pretax swings to loss, Chile uncertain
(Reuters) - The world's biggest fish farmer Marine Harvest (MHG.OL: Quote, Profile, Research) posted a surprise first-quarter operating loss on Wednesday, hit by fish disease in Chile where it said the situation remained uncertain. Losses before interest
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A three-year-old Marxist government was overthrown in 1973 by a dictatorial military regime led by Augusto Pinochet, who ruled until a freely elected president was installed in 1990. Sound economic policies, first implemented by the Pinochet dictatorship, led to unprecedented growth in 1991-97 and have helped secure the country's commitment to democratic and representative government.
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