Journalists covering environmental issues have become increasingly targeted with violence as the world faces an unprecedented environmental emergency, U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres said on Friday. A report by UNESCO, the United Nations' scientific and cultural organization, released the day before showed an increase in violence against environmental reporters around the world by both state and private actors. "Press freedom is under siege, and environmental journalism is an increasingly dangerous profession," Guterres said by video message at a World Press Freedom Day event in Santiago, Chile.
Chilean President Gabriel Boric told a major copper industry conference on Wednesday he expects production at state-run miner Codelco to grow slowly this year and reach 1.7 million metric tons by 2030, and that he sees copper prices rising. "The Codelco production will rebound," he said, offering a vote of confidence for the country's top copper producer whose output last year hit a quarter-century low, at 1.325 million metric tons. At a time when global companies have raised concern about long approval times for new mines and expansions, he said Chile, the world's biggest copper producer, is dedicated to speeding up the permitting process for mining projects.
SANTIAGO (Reuters) -Chilean President Gabriel Boric recalled his country's ambassador in Caracas for consultations, he said in a post on X on Thursday, citing remarks by Venezuela's foreign minister about criminal organization Tren de Aragua. On Monday, Venezuela's top diplomat Yvan Gil described the notorious Venezuelan criminal gang, which Venezuela had previously accused of assassinations, drug trafficking and kidnapping, as a "fiction created by the international media," during an event alongside his Colombian counterpart.
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