Chile

Chilean President Gabriel Boric has formally received the draft of a new constitution and is calling for a national referendum next month so citizens can decide whether the new charter will replace the country’s dictatorship-era constitution.

President Joe Biden is trying to increase trade with Latin America. The Democrat is meeting with the heads of the Dominican Republic and Chile as part of a broader effort to disrupt China’s dominance in global manufacturing.

Bolivia's government accused Israel of carrying out "crimes against humanity" in the Gaza Strip. Chile and Colombia recalled their ambassadors to Israel as they criticize the Israeli military offensive against Hamas militants in the Gaza Strip.

The apprehension of Pedro Paulo Barrientos Nunez in Deltona, Fla., comes seven years after a federal jury in Florida found the former Chilean military lieutenant liable for the torture and murder of revered Chilean folk singer Victor Jara in the early 1970s.

George Platt of Fort Lauderdale witnessed the bloody coup that started Augusto Pinochet's long, brutal dictatorship in Chile 50 years ago, on Sept. 11, 1973.

The archive of the Vicariate of Solidarity gives an account of a painful episode in Chile’s history: 47,000 instances of human rights violations during the dictatorship of General Augusto Pinochet, who took power after a military coup that deposed President Salvador Allende 50 years ago.

COMMENTARY It's fitting that the Proud Boys leader has been sentenced for sedition just as the 50th anniversary of Pinochet's right-wing death squad coup approaches.

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.