Chile's President on Her Country's Fitful Progress and Future Challenges

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World Chile's President on Her Country's Fitful Progress and Future Challenges Chile has long been South America’s good-news story, but the narrative has taken some twists and turns of late. During Michelle Bachelet’s first presidential term, more than a decade ago,

Entertainment The True Story Behind The Lost City of ZWarning: spoilers for The Lost City of Z follow. Since he disappeared in the Brazilian jungle in 1925, the British explorer Percy Fawcett has inspired plays, comic books, Hollywood movies and even an

World A Wary Mexico Wakes Up to President-Elect Trump Next Door Shock, sadness, anger and fear spread across Mexico on Wednesday as the nation woke up to the reality of a U.S. president who has threatened to deport millions of its countrymen, rip up trade deals and make it pay for a wall along the American border

Students demonstrate against the government of Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro in the streets of Caracas on November 3, 2016. Venezuela's opposition began a tense truce on Wednesday with President Nicolas Maduro, but supporters accused it of betraying them amid warnings the strategy might backfire. With Pope Francis's blessing, Maduro and top opposition leaders have agreed to sit down to Vatican-mediated talks starting November 11, seeking an exit from a nasty political crisis and economic melt-down. But not everyone is on board. / AFP / Ronaldo SCHEMIDT (Photo credit should read RONALDO SCHEMIDT/AFP/Getty Images)

World Think Politics Are Bad in the U.S.? Welcome to Venezuela His economy is in freefall, his citizens are taking to the streets to demand his ouster and his country can’t even pull off an international soccer match without things going haywire. So

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World The Mandate for Change—a Q&A with Argentina's President Mauricio Macri TIME foreign affairs columnist Ian Bremmer had a chance to speak recently with Argentina’s reformist President Mauricio Macri. His piece is in this week’s edition of TIME—what

LightBox This is What Members of Colombia's FARC Rebel Army Carry in Their Bags A 31-year-old commander, whose comrades know her as Brenda, has been a member of FARC for 15 years. At first glance, the contents of her bag are obvious: a rifle, machete, pistol and laptop for

A street performer in Caracas, where the economic and political crisis has escalated over recent months, bringing the country to the brink of total collapse, June 2016. Over the 17 years that Venezuela has been ruled by the socialist alliance of the late President Hugo Chavez, the country has been plagued by hyperinflation, a health crisis due to lack of medicines and deteriorating conditions in hospitals, food shortages, lack of electricity, explosive violent crime, and the rise of both left wing guerrillas and right wing paramilitary groups.

LightBox Witnessing a 'Complete Collapse of Society' in Venezuela Alvaro Ybarra Zavala puts it bluntly: “Venezuela has become hell.” The photographer had just returned from one of his latest trips to the South American nation when he talked to TIME, and

Cuba's President Raul Castro, Colombia's President Juan Manuel Santos and FARC rebel leader Rodrigo Londono react after the signing of a historic ceasefire deal between the Colombian government and FARC rebels in Havana

World How the World's Longest-Running Civil War Ended “May this be the last day of the war.” With those dramatic words, Colombian guerrilla commander Rodrigo Londoño on Thursday gave his blessing to a ceasefire and a blueprint for

President Mauricio Macri Launches Tax Amnesty Plan For Pensioners

World The Anti-Incumbency Wave Is Changing the Politics of Latin America In April last year I caught up with Chile’s richest man, Sebastian Piñera , in the surprisingly modest Santiago office to which he returned after leaving the presidential mansion. A

Peruvian presidential candidate Keiko Fujimori attends a closing campaign rally in Lima, June 2, 2016.

World Peru Could Elect a Jailed Strongman's Daughter as President Peru is a nation divided. As polling day in the second round of this year’s hotly contested presidential elections has edged closer, Peruvians have been forced to choose between two camps. But

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