Amid electoral polarization, the most reactionary sectors of the traditional right and the far right accuse the government of Gabriel Boric of having “robbed blatantly,” leaving the country on the ...

After years in which Chile promised a rupture from neoliberalism, Sunday’s elections were a major setback. While the Left’s ...

Gabriel Boric, the President of Chile, issued the following statement last week on the disappearance of Julia Chuñil, a 72-year-old Mapuche Indigenous leader and environmental activist: I cannot fail ...

José Antonio Kast has won Chile’s presidential election, with the far-right leader getting about 58% of the vote in Sunday’s runoff against Jeannette Jara, a member of the Communist Party who served ...

Chile heads to a presidential runoff on Sunday, with far-right contender José Antonio Kast — a supporter of former dictator Augusto Pinochet — tipped to win.

Chileans are headed to the polls and even detractors of ultra-conservative former lawmaker José Antonio Kast say the candidate is now almost certain to become Chile’s next leader. Kast has ...

SANTIAGO, Chile -- Chile has become the latest country in Latin America to veer toward the right, electing a deeply conservative veteran politician who has long attracted comparisons to U.S. President ...

In a runoff held on Dec. 14, 2025, José Antonio Kast, a Republican Party ex-congressman and two-time former presidential candidate, won just over 58% of the vote, while his opponent, Jeannette Jara, ...

Some 35 years after the return to civilian rule following the infamous Pinochet dictatorship, Chile will soon be governed by ...

Chile’s President Gabriel Boric travelled to Antarctica’s South Pole on Friday, a place where no other Latin American president has set foot, according to the Chilean government. An engraved Rolex ...

José Antonio Kast, a former conservative lawmaker, defeated Jeannette Jara, a liberal ex-official of the current ...

SANTIAGO, Chile — President José Jerí of Peru said his government on Friday would declare a state of emergency along the country's southern border and deploy more armed forces to the area as a large ...