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    • Tuesday, 6 February, 2024
      Chile’s former president Sebastián Piñera dies in helicopter crash

      Rightwing billionaire who left office in 2022 was piloting aircraft

      Sebastian Piñera waves at his inauguration for his second term, in Valparaiso, Chile, in 2018
    • Wednesday, 24 January, 2024
      Chile takes first step towards reforming private pension system

      Legislation will move to the Senate after provisional approval in lower house of Congress

      Gabriel Boric
    • Friday, 19 January, 2024
      Israel-Hamas war
      Mexico and Chile ask ICC to investigate Israel-Hamas conflict

      Call for probe into possible crimes shows mounting global concern over ‘escalation of violence’ in Middle East

      People inspect damage to their homes caused by Israeli air strikes
    • Thursday, 11 January, 2024
      Medical science
      Virulent strain of avian flu detected in seals in Antarctic region

      H5N1 cases in South Georgia increase concerns about virus’s ability to adapt and infect mammals and humans more easily

      Marco Falchieri of the UK Animal and Plant Health Agency taking a sample from a dead seal in South Georgia, a British Overseas Territory
    • Thursday, 28 December, 2023
      Markets InsightArturo Cifuentes
      Chile’s pioneering pension system now needs reform

      Once a blueprint for other countries, the scheme is now despised by many Chileans and its survival is in doubt

      Escalators at the Universidad de Chile metro station in Santiago
    • Thursday, 28 December, 2023
      Chile’s Codelco to control new lithium venture with miner SQM

      Partnership is first step in President Gabriel Boric’s national strategy for battery metal

      An SQM lithium mine in Chile’s Atacama Desert
    • Sunday, 17 December, 2023
      Chileans reject second attempt to rewrite constitution

      Rightwing-led draft fails to win majority approval after a left-led effort was voted down last year

    • Wednesday, 4 October, 2023
      Chile’s conservatives push ahead with rightwing constitution

      Latest version appears to be in peril after voters rejected leftwing draft last year

      A sticker that reads in Spanish ‘I approve’, which was handed out during voting on the previous Chilean constitution
    • Monday, 2 October, 2023
      News in-depth
      Chile’s leftist president curbs radical transformation plans

      Gabriel Boric struggles to govern after a string of legislative defeats and crime wave

      Gabriel Boric delivering a speech
    • Sunday, 24 September, 2023
      Travelista
      Four extraordinary Latin and South American escapes

      A gateway to the Atacama wilderness, Afro-Cuban beats in Havana, a Costa Rican surf lodge – and more 

      Otro Hotel in Oaxaca City
    • Thursday, 14 September, 2023
      Free LunchMartin Sandbu
      (Mis)remembering Chile’s military coup Premium content

      There is no economic justification for abandoning democracy

      Soldiers positioned on a rooftop fire at Chile’s presidential palace on September 11 1973 during the military coup
    • Sunday, 10 September, 2023
      News in-depth
      Deep divide over Pinochet coup pushes Chile’s polarisation to extremes

      Leftist president’s unity drive over 50th anniversary of putsch backfires, aggravating country’s political paralysis

      Gabriel Boric, left, Allende and Pinochet
    • Monday, 31 July, 2023
      News in-depthAmericas economy
      South America braced for economic hit from return of El Niño

      Extreme weather phenomenon could spark inflationary surge due to food and energy shortages

      People try to salvage belongings in flooded part of Ecuador
    • Thursday, 8 June, 2023
      ReviewFilm
      My Imaginary Country — Chilean convulsions greet a director returning from exile

      Patricio Guzmán, who left his country after the 1973 revolution, trains his camera on a new social uprising

      A woman wears a mask that covers all of her face and head except for her eyes
    • Monday, 8 May, 2023
      Chile’s rightwingers to lead constitution revamp

      Voters punish leftist Gabriel Boric’s government over rising crime and slowing economy

      José Antonio Kast
    • Wednesday, 3 May, 2023
      News in-depthLithium
      Chile’s move to control lithium alarms industry

      Australia, Argentina and African countries set to benefit as Santiago moves ‘urgently’ to take stake in key projects

      View of pools processing lithium at the SQM plant in Antofagasta
    • Friday, 21 April, 2023
      Lex
      Chile/lithium: Boric needs to avoid killing the golden goose Premium content

      Country’s president is betting long-term demand will provide the clout needed to keep overseas investors in place

      Bags of lithium at a SQM facility in Chile
    • Friday, 21 April, 2023
      Chile’s president moves to bring lithium under state control

      Leftwing leader Gabriel Boric also promises to impose stricter environmental rules

      A worker stirs lithium with his hand in Chile
    • Friday, 10 March, 2023
      News in-depthVina Concha y Toro SA
      Chile winemaker Concha y Toro heads further upmarket

      Company behind Casillero del Diablo redoubles its premium push despite slow US sales

      An aerial photograph of vineyards in Chile
    • Saturday, 18 February, 2023
      Climate change
      Climate graphic of the week: 2023 starts with temperatures above average

      Unusual warm February in US, Europe’s warmest January on record and Antarctic sea ice hits a record low for the month

      Firefighters try to extinguish a forest fire in Ninhue, Chile
    • Friday, 17 February, 2023
      ReviewBiography and memoir
      Voyager — the memory of Pinochet’s victims, written in the stars

      In her extraordinary memoir, Chilean writer Nona Fernández combines astronomy and neuroscience with a refusal to forget

      A starry sky at night
    • Friday, 9 December, 2022
      EU trade
      EU seals Chile trade deal that will improve bloc’s access to key minerals

      South American country will secure more favourable terms for its exports and professional services

      Valdis Dombrovskis, Antonia Urrejola and Josep Borrell
    • Friday, 25 November, 2022
      Travel
      Short cuts: Douglas Tompkins’ Patagonia home to open to guests — plus a new hot spring in Iceland

      The home of the late North Face founder is due to welcome visitors next year; Hvammsvík Hot Springs opens beside a fjord just north of Reykjavik

      A double bed in a room with a bay window looking out on to mountains
    • Friday, 18 November, 2022
      News in-depthInter-American Development Bank
      Latin Americans fight it out to lead scandal-hit development bank

      Brazil, Mexico, Argentina, Chile and Trinidad all nominate candidates to succeed fired Cuban-American

    • Monday, 17 October, 2022
      Simmering indigenous conflict tests Chile’s government

      President Gabriel Boric struggles to find solutions for deep-seated problems in Mapuche region

      A traditional healer and religious leader, known as a machi
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