Image: Photo: Shutterstock Graphics: Vicky Leta Renowned puzzler Peter Winkler invented the addictive word game, HIPE, with some friends when they were juniors in high school. While it may not have become the overnight success of Wordle, the game did earn Winkler admission to Harvard. According to his book, Mathematical Mind-Benders, he wrote a college … Read more
SANTIAGO, Chile — Firefighters wrestled Sunday with massive forest fires that broke out in central Chile two days earlier, as officials extended curfews in cities most heavily affected by the blazes and said at least 112 people had been killed. The fires burned with the highest intensity around the city of Viña del Mar, where … Read more
Forest fires in Chile have killed at least 46 people, President Gabriel Boric said Saturday, warning the death toll is expected to rise, as unusually high temperatures and droughts fan blazes across South America. Boric has declared a state of emergency to combat the forest fires, the deadliest of which are in the Valparaíso region … Read more
December 16, 2023 at 8:00 a.m. EST A Chilean citizen receives a copy of the proposed new constitution ahead of Sunday’s referendum, outside the presidential palace in Santiago. (Ivan Alvarado/Reuters)Comment on this storyCommentAdd to your saved storiesSave Chileans will vote Sunday on a proposed constitution that contains echoes of U.S. conservatism: the right to religious … Read more
SANTIAGO — Chile’s police on Friday arrested at least 55 people in a fiscal fraud case that could be one of the biggest in the country’s history, amounting to about $275 million and implicating small and mid-sized companies in different parts of the country. Marcelo Freyhoffer, a high officer at Chile’s tax agency, told journalists … Read more
SANTIAGO, Chile — Chilean President Gabriel Boric on Tuesday received the new Constitution draft and called for a national plebiscite next month so citizens can decide whether the new charter will replace the country’s dictatorship-era constitution. Chileans, who in September of last year resoundingly rejected a proposed Constitution that had been written by a left-leaning … Read more
Bolivia’s new President Luis Arce’s Presidency Minister Marianela Prada delivers a speech during her inauguration ceremony at the Casa Grande del Pueblo government palace in La Paz on November 9, 2020. – Leftist economist Luis Arce assumed the Bolivian presidency facing the challenge of uniting a polarized society and reactivating an economy ravaged by the … Read more
A general view of the pools for the process of salt extraction at Salinas Grandes on March 28, 2023 in Jujuy, Argentina. Ricardo Ceppi | Getty Images News | Getty Images Momentum behind Argentina’s lithium mining boom is picking up fast. The country is thought to be on track to match — and potentially even … Read more
SANTIAGO, Chile — Yelena Monroy was 3 years outdated when she was imprisoned for greater than a 12 months alongside together with her youthful sister and her mom, a socialist activist focused by the regime of Gen. Augusto Pinochet after he got here to energy in Chile in a navy coup in September 1973. “We … Read more