A survey conducted by the International Institute for Democracy and Electoral Assistance shows that, in 11 of 19 countries analyzed, less than half of voters think that the last elections were free and fair
A group of researchers put satellite transmitters on six animals to capture information at a depth of 1,640 feet under the sea. They are seeking to gain a better understanding of both the water conditions and the species’ behavior
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
The decision will reopen the investigation into President Nicolás Maduro’s Venezuelan security forces during a crackdown on anti-government protests in 2017
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
Ronald Leandro Ojeda Moreno was taken from his apartment by four individuals posing as police officers. Authorities are not ruling out any hypothesis, including a Venezuelan counterintelligence operation
Suspicions of arson were raised from the outset. Minister of the Interior Carolina Tohá indicated last Sunday that the government had information from ‘reliable people’ that supported that thesis
The project is one small piece in a global ramp-up of lithium production to make batteries for storing clean wind and solar energy and powering electric cars
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
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
Gabriel Boric warned the death toll could worsen as four large fires burn in the region of Valparaiso, where firefighters have struggled to reach the most threatened neighborhoods
Chile’s Interior Minister Carolina Tohá says there are currently 92 forest fires burning in the center and south of the country, where temperatures have been unusually high this week
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
Director Felipe Gálvez’s feature debut, recounting episodes from the genocide of the Selk’nam people in Tierra del Fuego, premieres in Latin America after winning the Film Critics Award at the Cannes Film Festival
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