
Chile begins its most conservative era with Kast’s ‘emergency government’
The president received the presidential sash from leftist Gabriel Boric, marking the start of a new political stage focused on security, the economy and immigration

The president received the presidential sash from leftist Gabriel Boric, marking the start of a new political stage focused on security, the economy and immigration

The mechanical engineer inherited the piece of the Hekatompedon from his father, a member of the Italian Navy who brought it back from Athens in the 1930s

The president of the foundation ChileMujeres warns that today only 15% of women have the right to childcare at the workplace, which is required by local law for companies with at least 20 female employees
The struggle of Latin American women is more urgent than ever in the face of setbacks across the continent. These eight women are at the forefront of the resistance: defending their threatened rights and fighting for those they have yet to secure

Film researcher Jaime Córdova has recovered ‘The Scarlet Drop,’ one of the earliest films by American director John Ford, from a warehouse sale in Santiago and brought it back to the screen

EL PAÍS visited the Indigenous territory’s penitentiary center, located in one of the most isolated corners of the planet

The criminal organization accused of murdering former soldier Ronald Ojeda was first detected in the South American country three years ago

For the first time, the Chilean victim is able to hug her children, who were taken from her at birth and adopted off to a family in the United States. ‘I couldn’t believe it when they told me they were alive,’ she tells EL PAÍS

The Chilean director of Oscar-nominated ‘La Memoria Infinita’ talks about her creative process and how her characters’ pain becomes her own.

The worst tragedy in the South American country since the 2010 earthquake has left at least 131 dead

In El Olivar, one of the towns devastated by the fires in Viña del Mar, residents take turns on watch at night to prevent new outbreaks of arson or looting

The death toll from the fires in the Valparaíso region is at least 122, but authorities warn that the number will continue to rise
The most unknown side of the socialist government – which ruled Chile between 1970 and 1973, until Pinochet’s coup d’état – has been revealed by an exhibition and a book: the prominence of graphic and industrial design

The founder of Lighthouse Reports, a platform created to investigate how governments use algorithms to make decisions, warns about the need to regulate this revolutionary technology

‘Bloomberg’ attributes a fortune of $28.8 billion to the widow of Andrónico Luksic Abaroa, the founder of Chile’s largest business empire. Fontbona is the matriarch of the family

The Chilean researcher emphasizes that we must think about a political system from the perspective of those who live on its margins
The monumental structure in the Chilean desert is the European Southern Observatory’s star project. Construction has passed the halfway mark and the device is on track to see its first light in 2028

The expert believes the U.S. involvement in the 1973 coup is a blemish on the former statesman’s legacy: ‘It’s a story that has haunted Kissinger’s legacy and will now haunt his ghost’

According to sport journalist Francys Romero, 61 Cubans have broken their contracts or defected so far this year

A national referendum will be held on Dec. 17 to either approve or reject the document. This is Chile’s second attempt to put an end to the Constitution of 1980, which came into effect during Pinochet’s dictatorship

The 24-year-old gang boss made boastful and revealing videos in prison about the country’s shadowy drug subculture

Thousands of people attended a concert in tribute to the victims at the closing ceremony to mark the 50th anniversary of Pinochet’s coup

The lay Catholic women published an open letter saying they experienced an environment of abuse similar to what the plaintiff described in her complaint

Alejandro Artigas, now 74-years-old, describes a ‘Dantean scene’ and ‘a sepulchral silence’ in the office where President Salvador Allende lay dead, after the coup plotters bombed the palace

Buenos Aires saw its hottest beginning to August in 117 years while the thermometer soared to 102.2ºF in some areas of southern Brazil

Declassified documents from the U.S. National Security Archive reveal a telephone conversation between the president and national security advisor after the failed CIA-backed plot

The Chilean writer recounts the ins and outs of her 1989 interviews with the dictator, after his defeat in the plebiscite that would have extended his time in power. ‘He was a very toxic figure… it wasn’t a pleasant experience,’ she tells EL PAÍS