Chile

Former president of Chile drops out after support collapsed in security council straw poll, leaving seven candidates in contestMichelle Bachelet, a former president of Chile, has withdrawn her candidacy to become the next secretary general of the ⁠UN, ending an attempt ​that had struggled to gain traction among security council members.Bachelet, 74, […]

Passionate documentary maker won international acclaim for unsparing but poetic films exploring the impact of the Pinochet regime in Chile Patricio Guzmán, the film-maker who chronicled Chile’s bloody 1970s political strife and its subsequent social and political turmoil in films such as The Battle of Chile and Nostalgia for the Light, has died aged 85. […]

Alfredo Bravo had a job he loved and was determined never to be grounded by marriage and kids. Then a voice from the control tower changed everythingAlfredo Bravo had landed aeroplanes in a lot of sticky situations – as a bush pilot in Chilean Patagonia and as a commercial pilot in rural China – but it was a singular voice floating over the radio waves […]

Nelson Haase Mazzei was sentenced for murdering Jara in 2023, but fled from authorities in ChileMore than 50 years after the murder of the Chilean folk singer Víctor Jara, the last man wanted in connection with his death has been tracked down and brought to justice.Nelson Haase Mazzei, a retired colonel, fled from authorities in 2023 after he and six other […]

This month Bronx Documentary Center is hosting the ninth edition of the Latin American Foto Festival, on view in New York from 9 to 26 July. The show brings together the work of photographers exploring social, environmental and political issues from across Latin America and the Caribbean Continue reading...

A warning from Latin America about US money, platforms, data and paranoid politics should not be dismissed lightlyWhen Colombia’s leftwing presidential candidate, Iván Cepeda, conceded defeat last week, he did so with notable grace. His ally, the outgoing president, Gustavo Petro, was much less composed. In a series of social media posts, Mr Petro argued […]

LSE analysis highlights litigation linked to energy sources, water consumption and air pollutionThe proliferation of datacentres and AI is increasingly at the forefront of environmental litigation around the world, from the US and UK to Chile to Ireland, a report has found.In an analysis of about 3,600 climate-related lawsuits filed since 2015, the latest […]

Attack targeted former Chile ambassador Orlando Letelier and his US colleague Ronni Karpen MoffittFifty years after Gen Augusto Pinochet’s secret police detonated a car bomb in the heart of Washington DC, killing Orlando Letelier, a former Chilean minister and ambassador to the US, and his American colleague Ronni Karpen Moffitt, a Santiago court has […]

Alfredo Pourailly De La Plaza’s absorbing documentary about an ageing Chilean gold panner is meticulously detailed and doubles as its own act of visual prospectingOut on the remote archipelago of Tierra del Fuego in Chile, Toto Gesell holds on to a profession that hails from bygone times: gold prospecting. Every day, come rain or shine, he puts on his […]

The musician opens up about her mental health, government corruption and why conservative backlash won’t stop her speaking her mindMon Laferte has a sore throat. Halfway through our conversation, in a studio with no windows at the Sony offices above New York’s Madison Square Park, singer Norma Monserrat Bustamante Laferte meekly asks her manager for a […]

National Libertarian party wants museum to highlight ‘victims’ of socialist government ousted by CIA-backed coup in 1973Far-right lawmakers in Chile have proposed the creation of a “museum of truth” to tell its own version of the years preceding Gen Augusto Pinochet’s bloody dictatorship – and emphasise the plight of what it calls the victims of […]

The country is positioning itself as Latin America’s next technology hub, but communities are pushing backThe Andes mountains frame what was once a wetland – now a stretch of dry, yellowed grass. Rodrigo Vallejos, a final-year law student, noticed the change five years ago while observing the Quilicura wetland, on the northern outskirts of Santiago. One […]

In Paula Rodríguez’s impressionistic documentary, an academic’s South American travelogue brings the painful story of a proud Indigenous society to lifeBetween 1862 and 1885, the Mapuche Indigenous people rose up to defend their homeland against invading outsiders. For these acts of bravery, they were deported, tortured and massacred at the hands of […]

When the birds started nesting at Useless Bay, Chile, Cecilia Durán Gafo decided she would protect them from people and predatorsFive pairs of rubbery feet carry velvet-sheathed black-and-white bodies towards the rope line separating the king penguins from the dozen or so visitors, who look on in awe. As these emissaries shuffle over, a hundred of their […]

Diego Céspedes’s striking debut mixes magic realism and melodrama in a tender tale of an LGBTQ+ community facing fear and superstition in 1980s ChileHere is a beautiful, raw debut from young Chilean director Diego Céspedes, a film that is part queer western, part beguiling fable, with some glorious scenes straight out of a Latin soap opera, […]