Chile

Seeds from the last toromiro, unique to remote Easter Island, were taken away in the 1960s. Now, after a crucial discovery gave hope for its survival, it is making a returnIn the Mataveri Otai nursery on the island of Rapa Nui, Estefany Paté cradles a bag of soil with a 10cm sprout like it is a baby. She caresses its leaves. “It’s been so emotional to […]

Adrián Simancas encountered a humpback off Chile’s coast – but scientists say he was never at risk of being swallowedAdrián Simancas had been paddling for two hours in the calm but icy seas of the Strait of Magellan, off the coast of Chilean Patagonia, when something massive emerged from the water and dragged him under.“I saw dark blue and white […]

I had to sing four songs in front of judges and a live audience, and I was up against people from 42 countries. On stage, I was tremblingThe first time I sang karaoke was in a bar in my home town of Curicó in Chile. I sang Hero by Mariah Carey. I remember being so nervous with everyone watching me. I was only 17, but I won. The prize was meant to be a […]

Adrián Simancas was kayaking in Bahía El Águila in the strait of Magellan when a humpback whale engulfed him and his yellow kayak for a few seconds before letting him go. He was unharmed. Simancas's father, Dell, who was kayaking with him, recorded the incidentJust a fluke: whale spits out kayaker in incident caught on camera• The headline of this […]

‘I thought I was dead,’ said the kayaker, who was let go by humpback off the Chilean coast after a few secondsA humpback whale briefly scooped a kayaker into its mouth off the Chilean Patagonia before quickly releasing him unharmed in an incident caught on camera.Last Saturday, Adrián Simancas was kayaking with his father, Dell, in Bahía El Águila […]

San Clemente to install cameras to detect boats carrying passengers attempting to enter US without authorizationLeaders of the southern California city of San Clemente, located about halfway between Los Angeles and San Diego, are partnering with US Customs and Border Protection (CBP) to place surveillance cameras along the city’s beach to detect boats […]

Group of Darwin’s frogs threatened by chytrid fungus thrive in specially built room that mimics their natural habitatDozens of endangered froglets have been born at London zoo after conservationists launched an emergency mission to rescue members of the species from a remote national park in Chile.Researchers rushed to Tantauco Park on the southern tip of […]

Gabriel Boric is first Latin American leader to reach planet’s southernmost point, according to his office Chile’s president Gabriel Boric has made a historic trip to the south pole to reaffirm his country’s “claim to sovereignty” over its part of Antarctica, his office said.Boric is the first Latin American leader to reach the Earth’s […]

There’s a disconnect between citizens and leaders. Including everyone in politics is the best way to ensure a new era of equalityMichelle Bachelet is a former president of ChileThis has been a historic electoral year, with more than 1.6 billion citizens called to cast their votes in 2024. In more than 70 countries, people have decided the political path […]

Five years after mass protest movement, thousands of victims are trapped between hopelessness and impunity On a recent afternoon in Santiago, several thousand people gathered to mark the fifth anniversary of the vast protest movement which rocked Chile in 2019.That same day last month, Sebastián Méndez, 38, who was blinded in his right eye by a projectile […]

The crime group has terrorised parts of Latin America, and the ex-president’s exaggerations may just empower it moreÁngela Villón Bustamante awoke to a WhatsApp notification on her phone. Still drowsy, she was horrified by what she saw: a graphic video showing the murder of a trans woman she knew named Rubí Ferrer.The killer shot Ferrer 31 times, […]

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Exclusive: proposal to Cop16 could see ‘funga’ get global legal consideration distinct from flora and faunaA new era of mycelial conservation could begin this month when the UK and Chile propose that fungi should be placed alongside animals and plants as a separate realm for environmental protection.Mushrooms, mould, mildew, yeast and lichen would all […]

Rivas, who is accused by Chile of being a torturer and kidnapper, launches challenge in the federal courtGet our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcastA former Bondi nanny and cleaner accused by Chile of being a torturer and kidnapper for Pinochet’s military dictatorship in the 1970s has launched a last-ditch legal appeal to avoid […]

Based on a real murder in Chile in the 1950s, Maite Alberdi’s fictional story of obsession has glamour and style, but no intensityChile’s Oscar entry this year is this quirky, unsatisfying oddity from director Maite Alberdi, co-produced by Pablo Larraín, and inspired by a stranger-than-fiction true-crime case from the 1950s. It is elegant and amusing […]