Wednesday, April 7, 2010 as of 11:14 AM ET
Miguel Juan Sebastián Piñera Echenique (; born December 1, 1949) is a Chilean businessman and politician.
Read More at Wikipedia ›An electricity company developing a $7 billion project to power central Chile by damming Patagonian rivers is threatening to suspend its work until the government helps create public support for the project.
Most Chileans oppose the plans to tame two of the world's wildest rivers and build more than 1,000 miles (1,600 kilometers) of power lines between them and the grid that powers the nation's capital. Some mass marches against the project have turned violent.The HidroAysen venture is 51 percent owned by European energy generator Endesa and 49 percent owned by the Chilean company Colbun SA, which said Thursday that Chile's lack of a coherent and widely accepted energy policy had become an obstacle. Endesa is a Spanish subsidiary of the Italian energy company Enel SpA.HidroAysen said its board would review Colbun's recommendation to suspend environmental impact studies on the power lines, but would continue work approved by the Supreme Court on developing the five dams.While environment...Prosecutors in Chile asked for murder charges Wednesday in the death of a young gay man whose attackers brutally beat him and carved swastikas into his body.Daniel Z...
The Chilean Senate has rejected three bills that would have eased the country's absolute ban on abortions.One of the bills would have permitted abortion when two doc...
Billionaire Sebastian Pinera won Chile's election on Sunday, becoming the nation's first democratically elected right-wing president in 52 years.The ruling coalition...
Shifting winds caused flames to sweep over a group of firefighters battling wildfires in Chile on Thursday, killing six of them, badly burning two and leaving anothe...
SANTIAGO, Chile -- Chile is backing off a controversial plan to remove the word "dictatorship" from school textbooks in reference to the military government of Gen. ...
Victor Toro rarely passes unnoticed as he ambles down the busy streets of the south Bronx, wearing a red bandana over his white beard and ponytail. People who have s...
Twenty students in Chile are on a hunger strike to support demands for improvements to the country's education system.Spokeswoman Laura Ortiz says the hunger strike ...
SANTIAGO, Chile -- Students and police are battling in the streets in Chile, with riot police using water cannons, tear gas and officers on horseback to break up fla...
It has been a bittersweet anniversary for Chile's rescued miners, who were honored as heroes in their hometown only to come under attack by anti-government protester...
It has been a bittersweet anniversary for Chile's rescued miners, who were honored as heroes in their hometown only to come under attack by anti-government protester...
Chile officially recognized 9,800 more victims of its dictatorship on Thursday, increasing the total number of people killed, tortured or imprisoned for political re...
Chilean president celebrates the rescue of all 33 trapped miners
Three-quarters of the Chilean areas hit by the devastating 2010 earthquake have been reconstructed, President Sebastian Pinera told congress Monday.The 8.8-magnitude...
President Sebastian Pinera marked Sunday's anniversary of one of the largest earthquakes in recorded history by praising his government's progress on reconstruction ...
CONSTITUCION, Chile (AP) — Before February's devastating quake, Fernando Echeverria ran a major construction company and led Chile's powerful chamber of builders, wh...
Five South American nations have recognized Palestinian statehood in recent weeks, and several more are expected to do so soon.The Palestinians are increasingly lobb...
Hooded vandals in Chile have set ablaze a car owned by the rector of the prestigious University of Santiago.Rector Juan Manuel Zolezzi tells local station Radio Coop...
President Sebastian Pinera said Wednesday a tax overhaul he is sending to congress will raise $700 million that will be enough to bring real changes to Chile's educa...
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