Jose Antonio Kast won Chile’s presidential election on Sunday, leveraging voter fears over rising crime and migration to take the country to its sharpest rightward shift since the end of dictatorship ...

Chile has passed a bill outlawing the use of mobile phones and other smart devices during classes at elementary and middle schools ...

How does Chile, a country of 16 million residents and geographically isolated by the Atacama and the Andes, compete in a world of 6 billion individuals and in a region of economic and political ...

First impressions — immediately after seeing the film: Witnessing a second Chilean revolution in the making. A flame that slowly became a fire. The government’s weapons: oppression, state violence, ...

Prior to the coming of the Spanish in the 16th century, northern Chile was under Inca rule while Araucanian Indians (also known as Mapuches) inhabited central and southern Chile. Although Chile ...

Chile is one of South America's most stable and prosperous nations. It has been relatively free of the coups and arbitrary governments that have blighted the continent. The exception was the 17-year ...

Few countries ever go from poor to rich. But tiny Chile, in a corner of South America, has for 20 years been quietly and successfully fighting poverty; and posting some of the world's most ...

Given the political upheaval in Venezuela and Brazil, Chile remains a good-news story for South America. But times have gotten bit tougher in recent years and, as in other developing countries, ...

Chile has passed a bill outlawing the use of mobile phones and other smart devices during classes at elementary and middle schools. The new law will take effect next year, making ...

José Antonio Kast was elected Chilean president on December 14, the first far-right leader in the country since the fall of ...