- A crucial week begins in Congress. In the House of Representatives, the constitution of the commissions that will deal with the budget is expected today, so that this Wednesday it will be debated in the chamber and can be passed on to the Senate as part of the extraordinary sessions; While in the upper house they begin to seal the integration of commissions that will intervene in the treatment of labor reform.
- Air traffic controllers announced the action plan, which will affect international and domestic flights. They begin this Wednesday the 17th at all airports in the country and the battle schedule includes the period of the end of the year holidays. A new meeting is scheduled this week at the Labor Ministry to try to defuse the conflict.
- YPF announced that it would reduce the price of gasoline this week. Horacio Marín, president of YPF, estimates that there will be a 2% reduction in fuel consumption in the country. He explained that the adjustment of values was a response to market dynamics and that the cuts would not be the same in all regions of the country.
- José Antonio Kast has won the election and the right returns to rule Chile. The right-wing candidate received 58.2% of the vote compared to 41.8% for Jeanette Jara, the official candidate, and was more than 15 points ahead of her. “We will restore respect for the law. Hope for a life without fear has triumphed,” Kast said in his first speech as president-elect.
- Two gunmen killed 15 people in an anti-Semitic attack on a beach in Australia during celebrations marking the start of the Jewish holiday of Hanukkah. Police shot one of the attackers and arrested the other. Authorities confirmed it was a terrorist attack and the Israeli president called on the Australian government to confront the wave of anti-Semitism in the country.
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