Chile

Chilean far-left President Gabriel Boric recalled his ambassador to Caracas, Venezuela, on Thursday after the socialist regime there denied the existence of the Tren de Aragua transnational criminal organization.

“Well-trained … ninjas” from Chile are burglarizing wealthy Americans in the Detroit, Michigan, suburbs after using the Visa Waiver Program to get into the United States, Oakland County Sheriff Michael Bouchard says.

Police have arrested a group of Chilean illegal immigrants who are linked to a string of burglaries across the southern U.S. and east coast.

Chilean media reported on Wednesday that one of the fugitive main suspects in the killing of Venezuelan dissident Ronald Ojeda is not just linked to the Tren de Aragua (Aragua Train) criminal organization, but worked for the Venezuelan government in 2015.

Ronald Ojeda, a Venezuelan dissident living in Chile wanted by the socialist Maduro regime, was found dead and buried over the weekend after being reportedly kidnapped on February 21.

India and South Africa on Wednesday blocked the passage of a major investment agreement at the World Trade Organization (WTO) conference in Abu Dhabi, potentially scuttling hundreds of billions of dollars in investments — many of them slated for developing countries of the “Global South,” which India frequently claims to champion.

The persistent threat of an invasive fleet of illegal Chinese fishing ships in Latin American waters is depleting fish stocks.

Former Chilean president Sebastián Piñera died in a helicopter crash on Tuesday evening as he was traveling to southern Chile with three members of his family, who survived.

Chile declared a state of emergency after more than 100 fires erupted that have so far claimed the lives of 122 people.

2023 was a year of majorly influential political news in Latin America.

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Chileans voted Sunday against replacing their nation’s constitution for a second time in as many years.

Radical leftist President Gabriel Boric of Chile announced a plan on Thursday to deport illegal immigrants from the country who did not register with Santiago’s biometric registration program by the end of the year, declaring his government would “be inflexible” in deportations and promising, “we will kick them out.”

A naked woman on psychedelic drugs terrorized travelers at a Chilean airport on Thursday in a disturbing incident caught on video.

Chilean far-left President Gabriel Boric starred in an online controversy on Tuesday after he mocked a social media user who pointed out the hypocrisy of Boric taking a private jet to Antarctica on a “green trip” to warn everyone about climate change.

Chile received the finalized text of a draft constitution and will vote for a second time in December on replacing its current constitution.

Joseph Humire, executive director of the Center for a Secure Free Society (SFS), asserted that Bolivia is Iran’s “most successful project” in Latin America in an interview published by the Argentine news outlet Infobae on Friday.

President Joe Biden “stressed the importance” of supporting Ukraine during a meeting Wednesday with Chilean President Gabriel Boric, who is in Washington to attend a series of economic engagements and to expand Chile’s trade ties to America.

The leftist, Iran-allied government of Bolivia cut diplomatic ties with Israel on Tuesday in response to Israel’s “disproportionate” operation against the jihadist terrorist group Hamas.

Chile’s far-left President Gabriel Boric met with his Chinese counterpart Xi Jinping, pledging to defend Beijing’s false claims on Taiwan.

Far-left President Gabriel Boric of Chile used his platform at the United Nations General Assembly on Wednesday afternoon to denounce the communist regime of Nicaragua’s human rights abuses — while at the same time making calls to lift sanctions on Cuba and Venezuela.

Two of the world’s most advanced astronomical telescopes, the Gemini North Telescope in Hawaii and the Gemini South Telescope in Chile, have been temporarily shut down due to a cyberattack.

The cast and crew behind the film El Conde (“The Count”), debuting at the Venice International Film Festival this week, said depicting late Chilean dictator Augusto Pinochet as a vampire was “necessary” because the “extreme right” was gaining ground around the world.

For 42 years, Maria Angelica Gonzalez believed her son died soon after childbirth, but that all changed after her long-lost son took a DNA test to learn more about his birth family. 

A survey published by the Chilean market research company Cadem on Sunday found that 56 percent of Chileans plan to vote against replacing their nation’s constitution in a December referendum.

A delegation of “progressive” Democrats led by Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) visited Chile, Brazil, and Colombia.

Chilean far-left President Gabriel Boric defended on Thursday the need to limit economic dependence on China during an encounter with representatives of French business.

Brazil’s President Lula dismissed Chilean counterpart Gabriel Boric as a “hasty young man” for demanding Latin American leaders condemn Russia for invading Ukraine.

The Chilean Chamber of Deputies will vote Wednesday on if to continue a constitutional accusation process initiated by Chilean conservative lawmakers against the nation’s Education Minister, Marco Antonio Ávila.

Bolivia’s socialist President Luis Arce signed contracts with China and Russia to hand over control of its two largest lithium deposits.

The leftist government of Chile announced on Monday it would begin handing out free sanitary masks in public transportation on Monday, a week after mandating the use of face coverings for everyone over five years of age in schools.

CARACAS, Venezuela – The vice president of the United Socialist Party of Venezuela (PSUV) and alleged drug lord Diosdado Cabello accused the United States of using Chile’s far-left President Gabriel Boric to “sabotage” the recent meeting of South American presidents that took place in Brazil on Tuesday.

Radical leftist President of Chile Gabriel Boric condemned the socialist “human rights crisis” in Venezuela and described the country’s situation as a “horror” during a summit on Tuesday attended by Venezuelan dictator Nicolás Maduro.

Yet-unidentified hooded men attacked the home of conservative Republican Party lawmaker Héctor Urban on Tuesday evening. Urban was recently elected to help draft a new constitution for Chile.

Police responding to a shootout between drug-trafficking gangs in Valdivia, Chile, last week, identified one of the weapons confiscated on the scene as having been registered to late dictator Augusto Pinochet.

Conservative political parties in Chile won a majority of seats in the nation’s Constitutional Council elections on Sunday, clinching the power to draft a new constitution for the country.