An investigation by journalists Benjamín Bravo and Francisco Lucero reconstructs the history of the family and the inner workings of the National Libertarian Party, the right-wing political party with the most members in the country
Bernarda Vera was 27 in 1973 and a member of the MIR revolutionary movement. Her name was on the official list of victims of the repression in Chile
The new president, an ally of far-right leaders worldwide, has promised an emergency government focused on law and order, and economic growth
Luis Alberto Pino Soto, a high school student in Arica, in northern Chile, disappeared 40 years ago, on the eve of a national protest against the regime
Wanted in Chile for crimes committed during the dictatorship, he was convicted in the US in 1987 for the 1976 assassination in Washington DC of Orlando Letelier and his young assistant Ronni Moffitt
The Chilean far-right president-elect announces the 24 people who will make up his government team starting March 11
The far-right leader is the first president in a democratic era to have supported the military regime. Although he avoided speaking about pardoning human rights abusers in 2025, he visited them in prison in 2017
The ultraconservative candidate, representing the right wing, obtained 58.1% of the vote. His opponent, Jeannette Jara, a communist activist and standard-bearer of the left, secured 41.3%
The memory of state repression has divided Chilean society ahead of the presidential runoff on Sunday, in which the far-right candidate, José Antonio Kast, is the favorite
From the war in Ukraine to the Middle East and Sudan, international justice is suffering its biggest crisis since the advances of the 1990s
Jeannette Jara, from the ruling party, obtained 26.8%, compared to 23.9% for José Antonio Kast in a first round where right-wing forces collectively achieved majority support in a country increasingly concerned with transnational crime
The performer stepped into her first leading role with ‘Queen of Coal’ — and after being extremely guarded about her personal life, she’s ready to explain her hesitance
A journalistic investigation — conducted via dozens of reports — illustrates the irregularities in the system, with cases dating back to 2024
The ultra-neoliberal policies of the new president threaten to dynamite the already weak foundations of the welfare state in the South American country
In an interview with EL PAÍS, the Chilean head of state reviews his time in office and addresses his political future. ‘The depth of the changes we imagined went against the grain of what the majority of people wanted. We changed our priorities and our speed, but not our principles,’ he says, at the halfway point of his administration
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
Twice president, he broke the hegemony of the Chilean left in 2010, faced a social uprising, and at 74 had not abandoned the possibility of running for office again
Journalists Marcelo Contreras and Rafael Valle release a book featuring 96 interviews, in which they refute myths about the industry during the Augusto Pinochet dictatorship
At the end of August, Chilean president Gabriel Boric launched the Search Plan for more than 1,000 Chileans. Today, old judicial documents, many typewritten, have been digitized to apply cutting edge technology and cross-reference data
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
Simón López Trujillo’s new sci-fi novel delves into real-world issues with deft lyricism
The Chilean researcher emphasizes that we must think about a political system from the perspective of those who live on its margins
The Chilean artist uses her own body in performances to broadcast her people’s resistance. Facing down colonialism, she asks for collective, self-critical reflection
The current charter was born in 1980, under the Pinochet dictatorship, but it has been amended 70 times since then. In 2022 the quorum required to modify it was lowered
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’
The late American statesman wielded a blend of cunning and ruthlessness to influence global politics
After Chileans rejected the proposal for what many characterized as one of the world’s most progressive constitutions, they must now decide whether to vote for a document that some warn goes to the other extreme