
Chile Megafire Trial Opens for Nine Over 138 Deaths
Chile's megafire trial opens: nine ex-firefighters and forestry workers face life sentences over the 2024 Valparaíso blaze that prosecutors say...
October 2, 2026Chile news in English from The Rio Times — Santiago politics, economy, copper markets and culture.

Chile's megafire trial opens: nine ex-firefighters and forestry workers face life sentences over the 2024 Valparaíso blaze that prosecutors say...
October 2, 2026
October 2026 in Santiago brings the free Foro de las Artes, Festival Bamba on 24 and 25 October and Iron...
October 2, 2026
Alex Ubago plays Santander Arena in Santiago, Chile, on Saturday 3 October 2026 at 21:00. Tickets on Puntoticket start at...
October 2, 2026
Chile housing decree: the Comptroller has cleared Minvu’s building-code change that allows more apartments per building and fewer parking spaces.
October 2, 2026
Chile student march: the teachers’ union calls the police response ‘brutal’, the UC rector condemns an attack on students, and...
October 2, 2026
Chile's IPSA fell 0.56% and the peso hit its weakest since April 2025 at 986 per dollar, pressured by a...
October 2, 2026
Chile's dólar observado hit 983.84 on Friday 2 October 2026, the weakest peso in over a year. What the slide...
October 2, 2026
A Santiago court convicted Maickel Villegas in the Ronald Ojeda murder on 1 October, the first conviction in the case....
October 1, 2026
Three Chilean seremis resign in one day as the count of officials leaving President Kast's government reaches 52. Who left,...
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