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"This bill aims to reconcile working hours with rest time. There is less and less left for it to become law!,” Chile’s General Secretary Minister Camila Vallejo said.
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Sabotage of forest machinery and property fires have occurred in La Araucania and Biobio regions, where logging companies explote territories stole to the Mapuche people.
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Biobío is the region with the highest number of hectares burned (209 646 67).
The "Santa Ana" fire started on February 2 and burned an area of 74 101 hectares.
"Our country urgently needs to modify its migration system, which puts so many obstacles to migrants that encourages them to enter irregularly to the country": Governor Diaz.
High temperatures, low humidity and strong winds will continue this week, conditions that favor the spread of the fire.
A case of a penguin affected by the virus has already been reported in Antofagasta.
The first emergency housing for victims of the forest fires in Ninhue, Ñuble Region, was delivered today.
Chile records some 300 active fires, with over 400 000 hectares burned thus far in unprecedented forest fires affecting the southern country.
So far, wildfires have killed 24 people, burned nearly 300,000 hectares, and destroyed almost 1,500 homes in the Ñuble, Biobio, La Araucania, and Maule regions.
Starting at midnight on Thursday, the curfew will be in effect in the Arauco, Biobio, and Concepcion provinces.
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