Fifty years after Pinochet coup, Chile to search for over 1,000 victims of enforced disappearance
The commemoration has triggered clashes between left-wing and opposition politicians, who accuse President Gabriel Boric of having a biased vision
The commemoration has triggered clashes between left-wing and opposition politicians, who accuse President Gabriel Boric of having a biased vision
The documents were released Friday by the State Department in Washington, on the verge of the commemoration of the 50th anniversary of the overthrow of the government of socialist Salvador Allende
The progressive delegation includes Bernie Sanders’s chief of staff and the House’s youngest representative. The legislators will visit Brazil, Chile and Colombia to discuss democracy, the environment and peace processes
The country’s president warned there will be no let-up on his war on criminal groups as a massive security deployment aims to cut off the province of Cabañas
The man behind the theft of 23 computers from the department headed by Giorgio Jackson is a 24-year-old criminal who made a video call from jail
Justice investigates whether the candidate’s entourage asked for thousands of dollars in exchange for positions on the lists for the October elections
Arturo Zaldívar, a former Chief Justice, issued an open letter and an opinion column in ‘Milenio’ following criticism of his social media activity praising the American singer
We are now operating under a new scenario, marked not only by the hegemonic decline of the Cold War powers, but also by strategic competition and the need to redefine the course of relations on the American continent
An immigrant family grieves after a respiratory virus outbreak claimed their little girl’s life
Chile kicks off a decisive stage to rewrite a text that aims to bury the country’s Pinochet dictatorship-era constitution
The meeting has given Nicolás Maduro a diplomatic boost, but Chile and Uruguay were quick to distance themselves from Lula’s comments about the crisis in the country
The 57-year-old lawyer with nine children leads the Republican Party, which on Sunday became Chile’s leading political force. Critical of same-sex marriage and abortion, in 2007 he tried to ban the emergency contraceptive pill
Aisén Etcheverry, who was appointed to President Gabriel Boric’s cabinet less than two months ago‚ is one of the leader’s of the mineral-rich South American country’s National Lithium Strategy
The right-wing formation led by José Antonio Kast garnered the highest number votes, since the country’s return to democracy in 1990 with 35%, turning the political chessboard around
José Antonio Kast’s Republican Party will have the final say on a new Constitution after securing a rightist majority on the 50-seat body. Gabriel Boric’s left did not achieve enough support to gain power of veto
The opposition to President Gabriel Boric is waging its own battle for hegemony: the Chile Vamos bloc, led by a new generation, is facing the extremist Republican Party
The left-wing administration of Gabriel Boric is concerned the May 7 vote to elect the members of the Constitutional Council will hand the right a sweeping majority
President Gabriel Boric had made maintaining a gender balance a key priority but there are now 13 male and 11 female ministers, three fewer than when he took office
The government of Gabriel Boric is set to unveil six new high-speed machines that will cut down the trip between Santiago and Chillán to under four hours
It took six years for lawmakers to finally approve the initiate and the law will need another five yeas to reach its full force
Violence and organized crime are on the rise across the region, upending government plans and putting citizens on alert
In Colombia, restrictions on President Gustavo Petro have come from both Congress and the high courts. In the rest of the region, similar dynamics are happening
The success of the conference lies in its acceptance that while governments in the region do not share the same ideology, they share a common destiny
The meeting in the Dominican Republic aims to lay the foundations for cooperation between Latin America and Europe ahead of the Spanish presidency of the EU Council
The meeting in the Dominican Republic, which will also address the region’s migratory challenges, seeks to define an agenda to promote integration on both sides of the Atlantic
From positions in government, autonomous institutions or academia, female economists in the region are leaving their mark on public policy and resource management