Chile

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 new president, an ally of far-right leaders worldwide, has promised an emergency government focused on law and order, and economic growth

At the center of the dispute is a Chinese undersea cable project that drew strong objections from the Trump administration

The region is cautiously analyzing the situation in the Middle East, especially due to the risks of increased inflation and the decline of local currencies against the dollar

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

A global study based on the collective biocultural memory of 10 local communities in Latin America, Asia, and Africa warns of the environmental and cultural impact of the ongoing loss of biodiversity

The Abrázame Foundation is promoting a pilot program to support infants just weeks and months old and provide them with a key emotional bond in their development

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 public policy coordinator at the NGO Derechos Digitales discusses the decisions made by regulatory authorities in Colombia, Brazil, and Chile regarding the company linked to Sam Altman. She asks: Who controls, for what purposes, and under what safeguards, the proof that we are human?

The Chilean far-right president-elect announces the 24 people who will make up his government team starting March 11

Around eight million citizens of the South American country live abroad. Some fled the political repression of Chavismo. Others simply sought a way out of economic hardship. They have spread throughout the world, although most remain in Latin America. This is the story of 11 of them

Approaching his 97th birthday, the Chilean artist has published a book with Taschen in which he reviews his career, almost as boundless as it is surreal: ‘My most important work is tying my shoelaces with my teeth’

The president of Chile, who will leave office on March 11, is an unusual figure in his political sphere. EL PAÍS spoke with him in three meetings. He will work from the opposition and could run again in four years

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 forces of the radical, populist and nationalist right have moved from the fringes to center stage, and they are expanding globally with an organized network that challenges the liberal consensus

In Santiago’s General Cemetery, tradition links the dead and their families to those who care for their graves

The Venezuelan diaspora in the region generates more than $10.6 billion, according to the IOM, but 30% still live without legal status

The leaders of Brazil, Mexico and Colombia have responded in very different ways to the return of the far right to the South American country, which held a runoff vote on Sunday

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 

Trump’s new National Security Strategy places the main geopolitical focus on the Americas and calls on the region to help curb immigration, drug trafficking, and China’s influence

As drug production and trafficking increase across the continent, criminal groups of all sizes are diversifying their operations and increasing their firepower. Governments, meanwhile, stumble between hard-line policies and paralysis

Argentinean journalist Soledad Vallejos’ new book explores the path of organizations that began to promote liberal ideals decades ago, and now represent the new right and far right

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

On the 10th anniversary of the worst terrorist attack in French history, the French-Chilean photographer, who spent two and a half hours in a hallway with 11 other people and a suicide bomber, believes it is time to turn the page