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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.

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.

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.

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.

China’s state-run Global Times on Monday filed a gloomy report on Chile’s plans to nationalize its lithium industry, which would freeze Beijing out of exploiting the vital “green energy” mineral. The editors vacillated between warning Chile that it courts disaster, and huffing that China doesn’t really need Chile’s lithium output.

Chilean far-left President Gabriel Boric announced plans to nationalize the country’s lithium industry in a national broadcast on Thursday evening.

Chile initiated proceedings this week to attempt, for a second time, to rewrite its constitution — six months after the previous attempt was overwhelmingly rejected by the Chilean electorate in 2022.

To be a “leading power,” India is going to have to become significantly more influential in Latin America, Indian External Affairs Minister S. Jaishankar asserted in a speech on Wednesday in which he revealed New Delhi’s plans to greatly enhance commercial and geopolitical ties to the region.

The far-left President of Chile Gabriel Boric called for “free, fair, and transparent” elections for Venezuela and for the liberation of Nicaragua’s political prisoners during a speech at the Community of Latin American and Caribbean States (CELAC) summit on Tuesday.

Chile lost over $50 billion in investment cash between the beginning of violent leftist riots in 2019 and September 2022, Bloomberg reported on Thursday – and with a hardline socialist president, prospects for what was once Latin America’s most successful economy look bleak.

Chile’s far-left President Gabriel Boric is facing a lawsuit by lawmakers this week in response to his decision in December to pardon a former Marxist guerrilla member and several others imprisoned for participating in leftist riots between 2019 and 2021.

The Indian government is reportedly interested in buying a copper mine and up to two lithium mines in Argentina, in a bid to catch up with China as a top provider of minerals needed for electric vehicle (EV) batteries.

As the world entered its second year of pandemic lockdowns, supply chain disruptions, and a new era of high fuel prices and inflation, the world’s most essential cargo transport professionals – truckers – took the lead in organizing anti-government protests in nearly every region of the planet.

The election of convicted felon Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva to the presidency of Brazil in October – a hardline socialist who had, in his previous presidencies, been seen as the leader of the international left – prompted a wave of celebrations among the world’s Marxists that Latin America had finally fallen into near-complete leftist rule.

CARACAS — Venezuela’s socialist dictator Nicolás Maduro lashed out once more on Wednesday against the region’s “cowardly left,” directing his now recurring rant against those who criticize the authoritarian regime of Daniel Ortega in Nicaragua. 

CARACAS — Venezuela’s socialist dictator Nicolás Maduro lashed out against leftist politicians who have criticized him for being a dictator — without naming one in particular — during an event in the infamous Sao Paulo Forum on Friday.

Over 4,000 people stormed Santiago, Chile’s National Stadium on Tuesday night to illegally attend a concert by Puerto Rican reggaetón artist Daddy Yankee, breaking down security barriers, scuffling with police, and ultimately tearing down the division between general admission and the VIP area within the venue.

Far-left Chilean President Gabriel Boric condemned fellow leftists during a conversation in New York on Thursday for failing to criticize the human rights abuses of leftist leaders, demanding “no double standards” for human dignity. He then proceeded to favorably quote Russian communist mass murderer Vladimir Lenin.

Chilean President Gabriel Boric made his debut at the United Nations General Assembly on Tuesday, delivering a speech in which he admitted fellow leftists had engaged in “grave episodes of violence” during riots in his country and warned, “it could happen in your country, too.”

Chile’s radical left, anti-Israel president Gabriel Boric refused to accept the credentials of Israel’s new ambassador in a major breach of protocol that has ignited a diplomatic spat between the two countries.

Left-wing Chilean President Gabriel Boric sparked a major diplomatic crisis on Thursday by refusing to accept the credentials of Israel’s new ambassador to Chile, Gil Artzyeli.

Half of Chile’s population still wants to replace the nation’s constitution, according to a poll carried out by the Chilean market research company Cadem one week after the nation voted overwhelmingly against replacing the constitution.

The governments of Latin America offered solemn condolences to the people of the United Kingdom and the Royal Family over the passing of Queen Elizabeth II, paying their respects to Britain’s longest-ever reigning monarch.

An overwhelming majority of Chileans voted Sunday to reject the proposed draft of a radical far-left constitution that would have replaced the nation’s 42-year-old constitution with the “world’s most progressive” core legal structure. 

The foreign ministry of Chile issued an outraged statement on Monday condemning conservative Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro after the latter claimed during a presidential election debate the day before that leftist Chilean President Gabriel Boric had “set fire to the Metro,” a reference to riots that gripped the country in 2019.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky attempted to convince Latin America to abandon what has for months been little more than apathy towards the Russian invasion of his country in a speech to Chilean college students this week.

Colombia – under its first-ever leftist president, ex-guerrilla member Gustavo Petro – revived a longtime far-left hope of creating a unified South American currency to defy the U.S. dollar, the online journal Diario Las Américas reported on Thursday.

Thousands of Chileans in the capital of Santiago flocked to the opening of Ikea’s first South American store on Wednesday, waiting in a lengthy queue in the early morning hours to be able to partake in a shopping spree of the Swedish company’s products.

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.