Well what would you do? A man in Chile was left flabbergasted when he checked his bank account on payday to discover he had been paid 330 times more than he should have done. The man who has not been named, worked at Consorcio Industrial de Alimentos (Cial), a company which produces cold cut meats […]
1 year ago
Amazing news. A landslide vote has granted marriage equality and adoption to same-sex couples in Chile. On Tuesday, both houses of Chile’s Congress passed the measure with overwhelming majorities. It is now the eighth Latin-American country to legalise same-sex marriage and 31st worldwide. The motion was first presented by President Michelle Bachelet in 2017, but […]
4 years ago
Heaps of leftover fast fashion stretch across the desert. Fast fashion is one of the globe’s top polluters. While child labour and human rights violations related to clothing factories are well known, the environmental damage caused is rarely publicised. Images have been released that show endless mounds of clothes discarded across the Atacama desert in […]
4 years ago
A state of emergency is in place in the South American nation of Chile as over 1,400 protestors have been detained. According to Interior Minister Andrés Chadwick, 10,500 soldiers and police have been put on the streets in an attempt to control and curtail the protests. Five dead bodies were found in a “garment factory” […]
6 years ago