Chile

Chilean Startup Stops Reservoirs Evaporating

By Ciara Nugent / Putaendo, Chile

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Gabriel Boric Is a New Kind of Leftist Leader

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Chile Is Trying To Shed the Last Remnants of Its Pinochet-Era Dictatorship

If approved by voters in a Sept. 4 referendum, the new text will replace the constitution designed by military dictator Augusto Pinochet in 1980.

By Eloise Barry

A Leftist Millennial Elected President in Chile

Former student protest leader Gabriel Boric won 56% of the vote, beating conservative rival Jose Antonio Kast’s 44%

By Matthew Malinowski and Valentina Fuentes/Bloomberg

The Leftist Millennial Who Could Lead One of Latin America's Wealthiest and Most Unequal Countries

Former student leader Gabriel Boric, 35, is competing against the deeply conservative José Antonio Kast

By Ciara Nugent

Will the 2020 Constitutional Referendum Change Chile?

Natalia Aravena rushed down a small side street to escape, she recalls. Chile’s police force, the carabineros, were dispersing a protest near Santiago’s presidential palace on Oct. 28 2019, one of hundreds that broke out...

By Ciara Nugent

Why Chile’s SATs Have Become the New Frontline of Inequality Protests

School’s out for summer in Chile. But the vacation isn’t proving very relaxing for high school students in the South American country. A group of Chilean teenagers have spent the last few weeks opening a...

By Ciara Nugent

What Happens Next in the Chile Protests

After a month of the most sustained protests Chile has seen since the end of its military dictatorship (1973-1990), President Sebastian Pinera delivered this week the ultimate concession—the offer to rewrite the country’s constitution. It’s...

By Ian Bremmer

18 Killed as Hundreds of Thousands of Protestors Take to the Streets in Chile. Here’s What to Know

For the past week, the streets of Chile’s capital, Santiago have resounded with the sound of banging metal pots, the rallying call of more than 400,000 protesters taking part in demonstrations across the country. Protesters...

By Rachael Bunyan

Chile's Protest Reflect Our Unequal Times

Around the world, 2019 has been a year of public protest, and in some countries it’s not hard to understand why. In Hong Kong, demonstrators want to preserve the city’s autonomy within a repressive Chinese...

By Ian Bremmer

A Strong Earthquake Turned a High-Powered Telescope Into a Seismograph

The images show Earth's heartbeat inscribed in the sky

By Jeffrey Kluger

Landlocked Bolivia Wants a Path to the Pacific. Here's Why That Won't Be Happening Any Time Soon

The ICJ ruled Oct. 1 that Chile does not have to give Bolivia part of its coastline

By Ciara Nugent

This Oscar-Nominated Film Asks Viewers a Question: 'What Are You Seeing in Me?'

A nominee for best foreign language film makes for uncomfortable and powerful viewing. It's also making history

By Katy Steinmetz

Chile's Congress Votes to Relax Strict Abortion Ban

Abortion was legal in Chile until the ban was enacted under Pinochet

By Kevin Lui

Q&A: Chile's Michele Bachelet on Where the Country Goes Now

She speaks on Chile's fitful progress and demanding future

By Ian Bremmer / Santiago

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, when emerging markets were booming,...

By Ian Bremmer / Santiago

Chile's Worst Wildfires Reduce An Entire Town to Ashes

A local mayor says the blaze was "like Dante’s Inferno"

By Joseph Hincks

Former General Liable for Murder of Victor Jara

Jara was a poet and songwriter whose death became synonymous with the human rights struggle under the ruthless Pinochet regime

By Amanda Calvo
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