Chile

The production company that created the ‘Star Wars’ saga alleges that the facility, located on the outskirts of Chile’s capital Santiago, infringes copyright

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

Two centuries after the speech that inaugurated the United States’ policy toward the region, five Democratic lawmakers call for an end to the Cuban embargo and the declassification of secret CIA files, as well as reforms to the IMF and the OAS

The story of Purita Valle reflects the suffering of migrants in Central America and Mexico, according to the latest report from Doctors Without Borders

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

With 99% of the vote counted, the ‘no’ option has won by a margin of 10 percentage points. The country’s current charter was written in 1980, although it has undergone 70 reforms

The South American country’s political actors have all staked their positions on the new constitutional text, causing some internal divisions within the parties

The Colombian president’s tweets and his Foreign Minister’s issues jeopardize the most positive aspect of his administration

On the occasion of her participation in the National Summit of Elected Women of Colombia, organized by U.N. Women, the former president of Chile talks about what it is like to be a woman in politics, the humanitarian tragedy in Gaza and the authoritarian drift in Latin America

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

Scientists are warning of a significant loss of mass in Argentina’s most famous glacier, Perito Moreno. This is possibly related to climate change

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’

Colombia — the country with the most carbon credits issued — has a case before the Constitutional Court. Meanwhile, Chile is preparing more transparent regulations, Brazil wants to approve an emissions trading system before the COP28 and Mexico is leading the way

U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres described the U.N. climate change conference that begins in Dubai next week as an opportunity ‘decide the phase-out of fossil fuels in an adequate time frame’

Lisandro Alonso Martínez’s ‘Eureka,’ screening at the Gijón International Film Festival this week, is the latest in a wave of films that address Indigenous massacres and brutal dictatorships through fantastical elements

In Quintero Bay, in Chile, 7,000 fossil remains of an abundant extinct megafauna that inhabited the place during the late Pleistocene have been found

According to data from the United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification, more than 70% of Mexico’s surface area has been affected. Countries like the Dominican Republic, however, are showing signs of recovery

Cristian Donoso has spent the past three decades witnessing the melting of the world’s ice sheets. Following in the footsteps of historic expeditions, he replicates photographs taken by adventurers and scientists from the past to compare the current state of the planet’s glaciers. ‘Almost all of them are melting,’ he says

The president of the Washington Office on Latin America notes that the strength of civil society and committed youth are encouraging signs in the region. This is despite the drop in the democratic model’s popularity, a trend that has been observed in numerous surveys

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

A study found the glacier Exploradores, in Laguna San Rafael national park, is reaching a dangerously unstable ‘inflection point’. The overnight closure came as a shock to local guides