Chile’s right wing is seeking to capitalise on concern over crime and immigration in its bid to replace Gabriel Boric.

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 and daughter, had activated an alarm and put a padlock ...

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Twenty-five years after Chile's return to democracy, glorifying Augusto Pinochet has finally become taboo, but the country is still fighting to erase the social and political legacy of his dictatorship. Pinochet, who seized power in a bloody 1973 coup and ...

On September 11, 1973, tanks rumbled over the streets of Santiago, Chile. Planes bombed La Moneda, the presidential palace, as US-backed General Augusto Pinochet overthrew the democratically elected President Salvador Allende. It was a dark, dark moment in ...

Boris Weisfeiler was one of more than 3,000 people who vanished after being arrested during the military dictatorship of Gen. Augusto Pinochet. He’s the only American still missing. Yet his sister said Friday she holds out hope he is alive, 21 years later.

Governing coalition candidate Jeanette Jara holds a slim lead over far-right rival Jose Antonio Kast in Chile’s presidential election, setting the stage for a high-stakes runoff next month. Kast vows to win in December as crime and immigration dominate voter concerns.