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December 19, 2020 / Last updated : December 19, 2020 ResearchBuzz COVID-19

Covid: Chile’s president Sebastián Piñera fined $3,500 for no-mask selfie (BBC)

BBC: Covid: Chile’s president Sebastián Piñera fined $3,500 for no-mask selfie. “Chilean President Sebastián Piñera has been fined $3,500 (£2,588) for breaching coronavirus rules by posing for a selfie with no facemask on. Mr Piñera apologised after the photo of him with a woman – also without a mask – went viral earlier this month.”

December 15, 2020 / Last updated : December 15, 2020 ResearchBuzz New Resources

Princeton University Library: New photographs in PUL’s digital archive document Chilean protests, Oct. to Dec. 2019

Princeton University Library: New photographs in PUL’s digital archive document Chilean protests, Oct. to Dec. 2019. “Princeton University Library recently published a collection of photographs documenting the social upheaval and crisis in Chile that began in October 2019, compiled by graduate students Alejandro Martínez Rodríguez (Spanish and Portuguese) and Camila P. Reyes Alé (architecture), in […]

August 6, 2020 / Last updated : August 6, 2020 ResearchBuzz COVID-19

Global Voices: In Chile, the school year is only halfway through — and teachers are struggling

Global Voices: In Chile, the school year is only halfway through — and teachers are struggling. “By April 1, nearly 1.6 billion learners across the world had been affected by school closures due to COVID-19. For school children in the northern hemisphere, the turbulent school year came to an end with the arrival of warmer […]

June 6, 2020 / Last updated : June 6, 2020 ResearchBuzz COVID-19

Bloomberg: It’s Covid Code Red in Latin America With No Signs of Peaking

Bloomberg: It’s Covid Code Red in Latin America With No Signs of Peaking. “When a top World Health Organization official this week declared Latin America the new epicenter for Covid-19, few experts in the region needed to be persuaded. The data are overwhelming — and overwhelmingly dreadful. The number of regional cases stands at 1.17 […]

May 25, 2020 / Last updated : May 25, 2020 ResearchBuzz COVID-19

Coronavirus: Chile’s president says healthcare system ‘very close to the limit’ (BBC)

BBC: Coronavirus: Chile’s president says healthcare system ‘very close to the limit’. “The coronavirus pandemic has pushed Chile’s healthcare system “very close to the limit”, according to President Sebastián Piñera. ‘We are very conscious of the fact that the health system is under a lot of pressure,’ he said on Sunday. Almost 70,000 cases of […]

December 4, 2019 / Last updated : December 4, 2019 ResearchBuzz Research & Opinion

Arch Daily: Data from 350,000 Smartphones Visualize the Urban Segregation in Chile

Arch Daily: Data from 350,000 Smartphones Visualize the Urban Segregation in Chile. “Every time you connect to the Internet or call someone, your smartphone plugs into the nearest available antenna, allowing X/CDR databases to anonymously access your personal record of checked-in places. The researchers worked with a 350,000-user database in Santiago, where each registered track […]

November 16, 2019 / Last updated : November 16, 2019 ResearchBuzz Tweaks & Updates

Total Telecom: Google announces the completion of Curie Cable, connecting US and Chile

Total Telecom: Google announces the completion of Curie Cable, connecting US and Chile. “Google has announced that its trans-Continental Curie cable, which connects Chile with the US, has been successfully installed and tested. The cable is expected to go live in the second quarter of 2020.”

June 22, 2019 / Last updated : June 22, 2019 ResearchBuzz Research & Opinion

Journalism in the Americas: Use of Instagram and WhatsApp for online news consumption grows in Argentina, Brazil, Chile and Mexico: Reuters Institute

Journalism In the Americas: Use of Instagram and WhatsApp for online news consumption grows in Argentina, Brazil, Chile and Mexico: Reuters Institute. “In the past year, the use of Instagram and WhatsApp for consuming news online has grown significantly in at least four Latin American countries: Argentina, Brazil, Chile, and Mexico. In Brazil alone, 53 […]

February 11, 2019 / Last updated : February 11, 2019 ResearchBuzz Around the Search & Social Media World

British Library: Let’s rescue and disseminate the Chilean public education archives

British Library: Let’s rescue and disseminate the Chilean public education archives. “The School Archives Programme at the Institute of History of the Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile is convinced of the value of historical documents created by Chilean public educational institutions. Founded during the nineteenth century as key institutions throughout the country, these secondary schools […]

July 1, 2017 / Last updated : July 1, 2017 ResearchBuzz New Resources

Alt Gov 2: Newly Released Photos of Nazi Spies and Enclaves in Chile During WWII

Alt Gov 2: Newly Released Photos of Nazi Spies and Enclaves in Chile During WWII. “On June 22, 2017, the government of Chile released 1,500+ pages of documents about the Nazi enclaves in the country during World War II. In the remote southern regions of Chile and Argentina (in other words, the southern tip of […]

December 4, 2016 / Last updated : December 4, 2016 ResearchBuzz New Resources

Digital Archive: The Music of Chilean Political Prisoners

Now available: a digital archive recording the songs and music of Chilean political prisoners. “Cantos Cautivos (Captive Songs) is a digital archive compiled by Katia Chornik, daughter of two opponents of the dictatorship who survived one infamous detention centre, which was named La Discothèque by agents of the Dina secret police because guards deployed loud […]

February 6, 2016 / Last updated : February 6, 2016 ResearchBuzz New Resources

Chile To Create Database of Phones Reported Stolen

The government of Chile will create a database of phones reported stolen. But the database goes way beyond Chile: “Chile’s Superintendency of Telecommunications (Sutel), mobile operators and the GSMA have signed an agreement to provide users with a platform to check if a phone has been reported stolen in more than 200 countries and 800 […]

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