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Enterprise Mobility Fuels Global Growth, Entering New Markets in Latin America and the Caribbean

Branch openings in Chile, the U.S. Virgin Islands and the Cayman Islands highlight continued global expansion for the world’s leading car rental business ST. LOUIS, Jan. 30, 2024 /PRNewswire-HISPANIC PR WIRE/ — Enterprise Mobility is expanding its growing footprint in…

Chile needs a Communist Party, an interview with Lautaro Carmona, General Secretary of the Communist Party of Chile

By Taroa Zúñiga Silva and Vijay Prasha This article was produced by Globetrotter. Author Bio: Taroa Zúñiga Silva is a writing fellow and the Spanish media coordinator for Globetrotter. She is the co-editor with Giordana García Sojo of Venezuela, Vórtice de la Guerra del Siglo…

Fifty years after Chile’s coup, the first year of popular unity

A conversation with Miguel Lawner, who remembers life as a former political prisoner of the Augusto Pinochet dictatorship while projecting his hope that Salvador Allende’s government could improve the lives of Chileans onto the current progressive government. By Taroa Zúñiga Silva…

Why lithium power politics are playing out very differently in Chile and Bolivia

By Vijay Prashad and Taroa Zúñiga Silva / Globetrotter In late July, a large sinkhole appeared near the town of Tierra Amarilla in Chile’s Copiapó province in the Atacama salt flat. The crater, which has a diameter of more than 100 feet,…

Chile’s lithium provides profit to the billionaires but exhausts the land and the people

By Vijay Prashad and Taroa Zúñiga Silva / Globetrotter The Atacama salt flat in northern Chile, which stretches 1,200 square miles, is the largest source of lithium in the world. We are standing on a bluff, looking over la gran fosa,…

PAHO Director calls for immunization gaps to be closed for all vaccines, including COVID-19 

2.7 million children in the Americas did not receive the vaccines needed to keep them healthy in 2020, while around 230 million people have still not received a single dose of COVID-19 vaccine in the region. Roseau, Dominica, DC, 25…

Reuters ICYMI – From Myanmar to Chile, citizens make their vision for the future clear

From Josh London, CMO, Reuters Reuters journalists captured rare footage of some of the men and women in Myanmar who left their lives as civilians to become guerilla fighters after the military coup in February. “Taking up arms is the only option…

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Donald Trump, Xi Jinping set for November 17 meeting in Chile to sign interim trade war deal: source

By Zhou Xin From South China Morning News Chinese President Xi Jinping and US President Donald Trump set to meet on the sidelines of the Apec summit in Chile next month, a source says The two state leaders are expected…

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Government of Chile offers Masters Scholarship in Development and International Cooperation

Thursday, August 22, 2019 — The Government of Chile, through its Chilean Agency for International Cooperation and Development, has announced the Horizontal Cooperation Scholarship Call for the Masters Programme in Development and International Cooperation in Santiago, Chile from March 2020 to February…

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Miami Cancer Institute names Horacio Asbun, M.D., FACS, Chief of Hepatobiliary and Pancreatic Surgery

MIAMI, FL – February 25, 2019 – Surgeon Horacio Asbun, M.D., FACS, has joined Miami Cancer Institute, the region’s premier cancer treatment and research destination and part of Baptist Health South Florida. Dr. Asbun will serve as Chief of Hepatobiliary and…