With a commanding lead in opinion polls and an electorate clamoring for security, far-right candidate Jose Antonio Kast is ...

Chileans will elect a new president on Sunday, with an arch-conservative who has promised to expel hundreds of thousands of ...

There was “unanimous approval,” records a secret summary of the meeting. The transnational “sistema Condor” was born—an infamous symbol of abuses of power of the past that authoritarianism can bring ...

Chile's far-right presidential candidate Jose Antonio Kast has vowed to crack down hard on crime and carry out mass deportations of undocumented migrants A surge in violent crime is driving nostalgia ...

Romina Cortés couldn't pronounce her sister’s last name. She didn’t know what she smells like, what her favorite food is, or what she likes to do in her free time. Cortés, 43, waited impatiently ...

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Forced adoption victims from Pinochet's era journey back to Chile to meet families SAN ANTONIO, Chile (Reuters) - "I knew she'd find me," Edita Bizama, 64, said from her home in the Chilean port city ...

One Saturday morning in September, four men burst into Miguel Angel Bravo's home in a quiet, middle-class neighborhood of Chile's capital Santiago. The 61-year-old accountant, who lives with his wife ...

Increased crime, blamed chiefly on foreign gangs, has sown fear on the streets of Chile's capital Santiago and driven voters to the right - Copyright AFP Carlos Fabal ...