Chile

While Chile’s rich and corporations enjoy low taxes, its poor and elderly struggle with nearly no social safety net. [...]

SANTIAGO — A clutch of critically-endangered water frogs rescued from a muddy puddle in Chile’s driest desert has birthed 200 offspring at the country’s national zoo, the Chilean government announced on Wednesday. The Loa water [...]

Sunday’s referendum could mean end for 1980 constitution that allowed privatization to flourish and led to widespread inequalityCarlos Hinrichs clearly remembers the fear and repression of the Pinochet years.His father was jailed for supporting Salvador Allende, the leftwing president deposed in Chile’s 1973 military coup. His mother and sister were […]

Bolivia’s president-elect Luis Arce said on Tuesday that there was “no role” in his government for socialist party leader Evo Morales, who governed for almost 14 years before resigning under pressure last year and fleeing [...]

More than 400 people in Chile have suffered eye injuries after being shot by police while protesting against inequality. They allege that police deliberately aimed teargas canisters and rubber bullets at protesters' faces. We follow Carlos Puebla, a former construction worker who was blinded in one eye and subsequently lost his job. With Chile hit hard by […]

There were tense scenes in the streets of Santiago as demonstrators clashed with police on the first anniversary of mass protests over inequality that left more than 30 dead and thousands injured. The rallies were largely peaceful early on, but were later marred by the incidents of violence and confrontations with police. Protesters threw fireballs and […]

Tens of thousands of Chileans gathered in the central square of Santiago, Plaza Italia, renamed Plaza Dignidad, to mark the one-year anniversary of mass protests that leftover 30 dead and thousands injured, with peaceful rallies [...]

The Carabineros face 8,500 allegations of human rights abuses in the past yearDamning allegations of human rights abuses, cover-ups and impunity have prompted growing calls for a root-and-branch reform of Chile’s national police force, known as the Carabineros.The force has been accused of a string of abuses since the outbreak of widespread protests a […]

Huge creature took wrong turn after coming ashore and ended up in suburbs of Puerto CisnesChile’s overnight curfew, declared at the end of March to help curb the spread of Covid-19 through the narrow South American country, has not been universally observed by all species. Emboldened by the lack of people and cars, seven mountain lions have been captured […]

It's not often you see an elephant seal shuffling down a neighbourhood street, but residents of the Chilean town of Puerto Cisnes saw just that this week. A group of neighbours managed to herd the confused animal back to the ocean using large black tarps Continue reading...

Apparent serious assault is latest in series of alleged human rights abuses by CarabinerosLess than a month before Chile votes on whether to replace its Pinochet-era constitution, police have brutally repressed demonstrators in the capital, Santiago.On Friday evening officers of the Carabineros police force used plumes of teargas and high-pressure water […]

For the UN’s first virtual general assembly, monarchs and presidents have faced presentational issues with their recorded messagesIn the age of the pandemic, the Zoom call background has become the latest social anxiety. Each choice is littered with potential pitfalls. Will bookshelves paint you as an intellectual show-off? If you sit in your garden, will […]

Guafo, a 50,000-acre island, is a hotspot for marine biodiversity and part of the ancestral land of the Mapuche peopleThe island of Guafo sits on the route taken by blue whales heading into the fjords of Chilean Patagonia. It is a hotspot for marine biodiversity, home to rare flora and sacred to the indigenous Mapuche people. Continue reading...

An 83-year-old goes undercover in a Chilean nursing home in a warm-hearted and surprising look at age and intimacyWith The Mole Agent, Maite Alberdi set out to make a film noir documentary about a spy in a nursing home. She did not expect it to transform into an aching meditation on isolation and loneliness.The Chilean film-maker told the Guardian she was […]

SANTIAGO – The Chilean Ministry of Health on Monday reported 1,752 new coronavirus infections in the South American country. Of the 411,726 infections, a total of 16,558 patients “are in the active stage of the [...]