Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. When Gabriel Boric was sworn in as president of Chile in 2022, his victory was heralded by supporters as the beginning of a new ...

Chileans have elected the most right-wing presidential candidate since the end of the Augusto Pinochet dictatorship over three and a half decades ago. In a runoff held on Dec. 14, 2025, José Antonio ...

SANTIAGO, Chile (AP) — Fans sported MAGA-style caps. AC/DC blasted from the speakers. Red, white and blue flags flapped in the wind. Crowds whooped and cheered as the man of the hour lamented the ...

The United States has accused Chile of putting its own security and regional stability at risk by advancing a Chinese undersea fiber-optic cable plan.

Chile’s newest political history will be shaped by José Antonio Kast of the Republican Party, and the country’s latest dramatic shift to the right after a second round, and likely final round, of ...

Jose Antonio Kast speaks after his Republican Party obtained the largest number of representatives in the election for the Constitutional Council, in Santiago, Chile, May 7, 2023 (AP photo by Esteban ...

SANTIAGO – Jose Antonio Kast won Chile’s presidential election on Sunday, leveraging voter fears over rising crime and migration to steer the country in its sharpest rightward shift since the end of ...

A new chapter begins for Chilean politics. After winning the runoff election against candidate Jeannette Jara by 58% to 41%, President-elect José Antonio Kast represents another milestone in the ...

SANTIAGO, Chile (AP) — As Chileans voted on Sunday, even detractors of ultra-conservative former lawmaker José Antonio Kast said the candidate whose radical ideas lost him the past two elections was ...

SANTIAGO, Chile (AP) — Chileans voted for a new president and parliament on Sunday in a contest expected to favor the hard right as candidates play on popular fears over organized crime and ...