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Cerro Grande: Fiscal Q3 Earnings Snapshot
SANTIAGO, Chile (AP) — SANTIAGO, Chile (AP) — Cerro Grande Mining Corp. (CEGMF) on Thursday reported a loss of $57,000 in its fiscal third quarter. On a per-share basis, the Santiago, Chile-based company said it had a loss of less than 1 cent. In the final minutes...
SQM: Q2 Earnings Snapshot
SANTIAGO CHILE, Chile (AP) — SANTIAGO CHILE, Chile (AP) — Sociedad Quimica y Minera de Chile SA (SQM) on Wednesday reported second-quarter profit of $213.6 million. The Santiago Chile, Chile-based company said it had net income of 75 cents per share. The results...
Cervecerias Unidas: Q2 Earnings Snapshot
SANTIAGO, Chile (AP) — SANTIAGO, Chile (AP) — Compania Cervecerias Unidas (CCU) on Wednesday reported second-quarter net income of $5.4 million, after reporting a loss in the same period a year earlier. On a per-share basis, the Santiago, Chile-based company said it had net...
Banco Santander-Chile: Q2 Earnings Snapshot
SANTIAGO CHILE, Chile (AP) — SANTIAGO CHILE, Chile (AP) — Banco Santander-Chile (BSAC) on Wednesday reported second-quarter net income of $233.1 million. The bank, based in Santiago Chile, Chile, said it had earnings of 49 cents per share. The financial holding...
Chileans confront a homelessness crisis, a first for one of South America's richest countries
SANTIAGO, Chile (AP) — The presidential residence of Gabriel Boric, the leftist millennial leader of Chile elected three years ago in the wake of public unrest over income inequality, shares a street in downtown Santiago with an overwhelmed homeless shelter. The sight of cardboard...
Newborn white rhino Silverio takes his first giant steps in a Chilean zoo in a boost to his species
SANTIAGO, Chile (AP) — Hannah, a 13-year-old white rhinoceros, has delivered a newborn calf in a rare zoo birth for the almost endangered species. The arrival of the male calf, named Silverio, two weeks ago marked the third time that a white rhino had ever been born in South...
Stolen at birth, an adoptee sues Chile over thousands of similar dictatorship-era crimes
SANTIAGO, Chile (AP) — A Chilean-American raised in the United States filed a criminal complaint against the Chilean government on Monday, alleging that it engaged in a systematic plan to steal thousands of babies from perceived enemies of the state in the 1970s and 1980s. The case...
Train collision in Chile kills at least 2 people and injures 9 others
SANTIAGO, Chile (AP) — At least two rail workers were killed and nine others injured Thursday when a freight train collided head-on with another train on a test run just outside the capital of Chile, a rare fatal crash in the South American country. Police said they were...
Storms in Chile damage homes, flood roads and leave at least 1 person dead
SANTIAGO, Chile (AP) — Heavy rains lashed much of Chile on Thursday, damaging homes, flooding roads, knocking out power and causing mudslides that have swept through residential areas. Storms have drenched the center and south Chile throughout the week, displacing people and...
