News of andes

Contested Chilean mining project given boost, despite protests

11-08-2021 21:52 Regional environmental evaluation commission in Chile approves controversial mining project close to a national reserve that is home to a vulnerable species of penguin.

Peru election 2021

Peru's ex-spymaster 'Rasputin' in spotlight for trying to influence vote from jail

30-06-2021 09:10 In recordings released last week, former Peru spymaster Vladimiro Montesinos instructs retired military commander to arrange bribes for judges on the national electoral jury, in order to proclaim Keiko Fujimori the winner over rival Pedro Castillo.

Bloomberg

Billionaire miner ready to bet on Argentina as Chile risk grows

19-05-2021 14:12 In a sign of South America’s shifting political winds, a billionaire mining clan is holding off on new investments in Chile because of country risk while looking to move forward with a huge spend in Argentina.

Architecture & viniculture

Specialist architects putting Argentine wine on another map

14-04-2021 11:02 Mendoza is synonymous with Malbec wine, but what's not so well known is that the province has become a reference for wine cellar architecture.

INTERVIEW – PERIODISMO PURO

Rafael Bielsa: ‘Alberto Fernández is very far from being a puppet’

10-04-2021 07:42 Rafael Bielsa, Argentina’s current Ambassador to Chile, on the pandemic, the president, Peronism and bilateral relations.

by Jorge Fontevecchia

Science & Nature

Fly without flapping? Andean condors surf air 99 percent of time

14-07-2020 14:35 Condors found in Patagonia spend only 1% of their time aloft flapping their wings, a new study published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences finds.

Fight against virus

Famous Andes crash survivor building virus ventilators

27-04-2020 07:00 Uruguayan Doctor Roberto Canessa, one of the 16 survivors of an air plane crash in the Chilean Andes in 1972, has developed a rudimentary ventilator to help patients, partnering up with robotic engineers and doctors.

BLOOMBERG

Argentina eager to boost lithium production, says official

24-01-2020 13:41 The government is determined to boost lithium and copper production, says mining secretary in Washington

News of andes

Contested Chilean mining project given boost, despite protests

Peru's ex-spymaster 'Rasputin' in spotlight for trying to influence vote from jail

Billionaire miner ready to bet on Argentina as Chile risk grows

Specialist architects putting Argentine wine on another map

Rafael Bielsa: ‘Alberto Fernández is very far from being a puppet’

Fly without flapping? Andean condors surf air 99 percent of time

Famous Andes crash survivor building virus ventilators

Argentina eager to boost lithium production, says official

Non-binary community left in limbo as systems fail to recognise new DNIs

Rape trial against actor Juan Darthés begins in Brazil

Travel curbs reimposed across globe over Omicron fears

Gruesome killing of five-year-old Lucio Dupuy shocks Argentina

Oscar winner Armando Bó to direct film based on ex-Herald editor Robert Cox

Duro golpe para Lousteau y Yacobitti: perdieron el comité nacional de la Juventud Radical

Quién es Valeria Pavón, la correntina que le quitó a Lousteau el control de la Juventud Radical

El discurso de Victoria Donda en la ONU tuvo escasos asistentes, pero fue tendencia en redes

Video: así fue el impactante choque del auto de los policías contra un árbol en La Plata

Empleadas domésticas: con el aumento de diciembre, cuánto cobra cada categoría