SANTIAGO, Chile — With an era-defining vote for a new constitution fast approaching, issues related to racial diversity have led to outbreaks of violence and political strikes up and down Chile. Like ...

This page is no longer being updated. It was last updated on 11 December 2023 Chile is one of South America's most stable and prosperous nations. It has been relatively free of the coups and arbitrary ...

A chronology of key events: 1535 - Indigenous Araucanian people successfully resist first Spanish invasion of Chile. 1541 - Pedro de Valdivia begins Spanish conquest and founds Santiago. The ...

For the past week, the streets of Chile’s capital, Santiago have resounded with the sound of banging metal pots, the rallying call of more than 400,000 protesters taking part in demonstrations across ...

The magnitude-8.8 earthquake that struck off the coast of Chile on Saturday was just one of more than a dozen catastrophic quakes to strike the country in the last half-century. Seismologists blame ...