Chilean leftists engaged in acts of public disorder and small riots on Wednesday in celebration of the tragic death of moderate President Sebastián Piñera the day before in a helicopter crash.
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.
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.
The latest round of polls from the first week of August in Chile show that a plurality of voters rejects the implementation of a new, radical leftist constitution meant to replace its only 42-year-old core legal structure.
A Chinese drug trafficking syndicate known as the “Bang de Fujian” has been building a high-tech indoor marijuana cultivating empire in Chile since at least 2020, multiple news reports in the country confirmed this week, citing the Investigations Police of Chile (PDI).
China has spent much of the past two decades cornering Chile’s lucrative copper and lithium markets, potentially making it impossible for nearly any other country to establish a formidable “green” economy, as both resources are pivotal in the making of electric vehicles.
Chileans on Friday protested against outgoing president Sebastian Pinera’s attempt to push through a last-minute lithium mining contract before leftist president Gabriel Boric takes office in two months, and possibly nationalizes the lithium industry.
The Mapuche Lavkenche Resistance (RML), an indigenous separatist guerrilla in Chile, took responsibility for a violent assault that resulted in the burning down of 31 estates in southern Bío Bío on Tuesday night, declaring that the election of a communist-supported radical as president would not stop their war on the Chilean state.
Opposition lawmakers in Chile launched impeachment proceedings against the country’s president, Sebastián Piñera, on Wednesday, claiming he was involved with alleged irregularities in the 2010 sale of a mining company according to details recently divulged in the Pandora Papers leak.
The Ministry of Health of Chile announced on Thursday a plan to fully lock down the greater metropolitan area of Santiago, the nation’s capital, in response to an accelerating surge of cases of Chinese coronavirus.
Chile will remove 11 women from positions on a body meant to draft a new constitution following their election Sunday as a result of a “gender parity” law that requires that body to have a roughly equal number of men and women.
The government of Chile defended its decision to trust Chinese vaccine products Sunday after its national vaccination program, one of the world’s most successful, preceded an exponential increase in confirmed coronavirus cases.
Less than a month away from the presumed inauguration of President-elect Joe Biden, Americans are departing a year in which their presidential election largely eclipsed campaigns around the world.
Violence, looting, and disorder erupted in Chile on Sunday evening after an overwhelming majority of people voted in favor of destroying the country’s constitution, replacing it with a new document more favorable to the nation’s left wing.
After waiting several days for authorities to ensure that reentry was safe, the clergy responsible for the Church of the Ascension in Santiago, Chile, reentered the iconic Catholic building along with Chile’s Tele 13 on Wednesday to find the inside completely hollowed out and vandalized with Satanic and leftist graffiti.
Masked rioters burned down two churches and looted several businesses in Santiago, Chile, on Sunday following a rally of tens of thousands of people in support of erasing the nation’s constitution and writing a new one.
President Sebastián Piñera of Chile confirmed reports early Tuesday of the disappearance of a Hercules C-130 military aircraft en route to Antarctica, describing the incident as an “accident.”
Organized criminal groups are feeding and drugging would-be terrorists to maximize the damage that looting and fires have caused in the heart of Santiago, Chile, a local councilman told Breitbart News in an interview this week.
The regional government of O’Higgins, Chile, announced the deportation of 50 illegal immigrants, among them 30 Cuban nationals, after some were caught participating in looting and riots, Diario de Cuba reported on Monday.
Religious leaders in Chile called people to pray for the end of left-wing riots taking place across the country on Tuesday, after a weekend marred by violence that saw at least 15 people killed and hundreds of millions of dollars in damage.
At least 11 people have died during violent riots in Chile this weekend following huge anti-government demonstrations that initially began in opposition to a four percent rise in subway fares.
Diosdado Cabello, a U.S.-sanctioned drug trafficker and one of Venezuela’s most powerful socialist henchmen, took credit for the violent riots that have consumed Ecuador and Chile this month, calling them the “little breeze” of a coming “Bolivarian hurricane” during a weekend rally.
Latin American leaders called on the international community to find solutions to the crisis in Venezuela during the United Nations General Assembly this week, as Nicolás Maduro’s socialist dictatorship continues to preside over the most serious political and economic crisis in the region.
Latin America has continued its shift towards right-wing, anti-socialist leaders in the year 2018, electing new administrations in Colombia, Brazil, and Chile to change the political climate of a continent dominated by left-wing governments in the 21st century so far.
President Donald Trump was one of many leaders across the Americas to congratulate Jair Bolsonaro on his election victory in Brazil on Sunday, pledging the two nations would “work closely” together.
