Chile

In Chile, a hard-right former lawmaker and admirer of U.S. President Donald Trump is leading in the presidential runoff. José Antonio Kast, an ultraconservative lawyer, has gained traction after nearly 70% of votes went to right-wing candidates in Sunday's first round.

COMMENTARY Latin America's inability if not refusal to make its law enforcement more 21st-century has only helped open the door to Trump's use of 20th-century-style military intervention in the region.

Chile’s Antumapu Folkloric Ballet will come to Miami for the first time in its more than 50-year history, presenting a program of emblematic folk dances at the Miami Beach Bandshell. The company, dedicated exclusively to traditional folk dances of its country, performs at 8 p.m. Friday, Oct. 3 in a free performance.

Chilean families are having only one child on average. U.S. birthrates are also dropping but it's unclear whether the U.S. will follow into the growing group of "very low" birthrate countries.

Power has been restored to most of Chile’s 19 million people after the nation’s most disruptive blackout in 15 years. Authorities said on Wednesday that they lifted the strict curfew imposed hours earlier as the outage left 98% of the population without electricity.

Chile is the world's second-largest lithium producer. It has been a welcome boon to the economy, but local community members consider it a disaster.

Chile is set to gain its 47th national park early this year — largely due to the efforts of U.S. conservationist Kristine Tompkins and her organization.

Ckunsa, an indigenous language in Chile, was declared dead 70 years ago. But groups in northern Chile are successfuly reviving the language and teaching it to a new generation.

Dissident Venezuelan army officer Ronald Ojeda had political asylum in Chile. Officials there don't discount Venezuelan regime involvement in his abduction this week.

The death of Nobel laureate Pablo Neruda days after Chile's 1973 military coup should be reinvestigated, an appeals court has ruled, saying new steps could help clarify what killed the poet.

COMMENTARY It's sad but apt that a sensible conservative like former Chilean President Sebastian Pinera dies as sensible conservatism is being killed in the U.S.

He served as president from 2010 to 2014 and again from 2018 to 2022. Piñera led the South American nation during devastating natural disasters, including the fallout of an earthquake and a tsunami.