Brigadier General Eugenio Ribba appointed Chief of National Defense for Coquimbo State of Catastrophe

The Chilean government has appointed Brigadier General Eugenio Ribba Thormann to oversee military and agency coordination in the Coquimbo region following a declared State of Exception of Catastrophe. This appointment centralizes command authority to manage the ongoing emergency response, though the specific nature of the catastrophe remains unspecified in the report.