Chile

A far-right party is leading in the vote count after Chileans cast ballots Sunday for a 50-member commission that is to draft a new constitution.

An airport shootout in Chile's capital killed a security officer and an alleged robber. The cash, aboard a plane from Miami, was being transferred to an armored truck.

COMMENTARY If Trump and Bolsonaro ring in 2023 in Palm Beach together, they probably won't discuss why the hemisphere repudiated their madness in 2022.

All members of Hacía la Victoria ("Onward to Victory") sustained eye injuries during clashes with police in anti-government protests in 2019. Their lyrics focus on police brutality and their own pain.

COMMENTARY The vote to retain Chile's Pinochet-era constitution wasn't a vote to retain Pinochet. It was a vote to block the leftist overreach Pinochet exploited.

Two years ago, Chileans called — loudly — for a new, more progressive charter. But on Sunday they punted it — and issued Latin America's radical left a warning, too.

The constitution would have put a focus on social issues and gender parity, enshrine rights for Chile's Indigenous population and put the environment and climate change center stage.

If approved, Chile's new constitution would be one of the most progressive in the Americas. But polls indicate Chileans may consider it too progressive.

While the U.S. looks set to overturn Roe v. Wade, the Latin American abortion rights movement is suddenly scoring victory after victory. Are there lessons to take?

COMMENTARY Even if Gustavo Petro wins Colombia's presidential race, Chile is a reminder that his leftist hubris could derail him — and his country's peace plan.

This month’s Sundial Book Club is about Henry Flagler and his dream to build the impossible railroad. Chile just elected its youngest president ever, who is also very progressive. And the Southernmost landmark has been restored after two vandals tried to destroy it.

Latin America's most prosperous country was long considered one of its most conservative. But is Chile now becoming one of the region's most progressive?