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Dissident Venezuelan army officer Ronald Ojeda had political asylum in Chile. Officials there don't discount Venezuelan regime involvement in his abduction this week.
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The death of Nobel laureate Pablo Neruda days after Chile's 1973 military coup should be reinvestigated, an appeals court has ruled, saying new steps could help clarify what killed the poet.
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COMMENTARY It's sad but apt that a sensible conservative like former Chilean President Sebastian Pinera dies as sensible conservatism is being killed in the U.S.
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He served as president from 2010 to 2014 and again from 2018 to 2022. Pi帽era led the South American nation during devastating natural disasters, including the fallout of an earthquake and a tsunami.
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Volunteers in central Chile are trying to remove charred metal, broken glass and other debris in neighborhoods destroyed by forest fires that have killed at least 122 people in densely populated areas over the past three days. Hundreds of people remain missing.
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The fires have been burning with the highest intensity around the city of Vi帽a del Mar, where a famous botanical garden founded in 1931 was destroyed by the flames on Sunday.
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The vote came more than a year after Chileans rejected a proposed constitution written by a left-leaning convention. The new document was more conservative than the one it had sought to replace.
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Chilean President Gabriel Boric has formally received the draft of a new constitution and is calling for a national referendum next month so citizens can decide whether the new charter will replace the country鈥檚 dictatorship-era constitution.
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President Joe Biden is trying to increase trade with Latin America. The Democrat is meeting with the heads of the Dominican Republic and Chile as part of a broader effort to disrupt China鈥檚 dominance in global manufacturing.
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Bolivia's government accused Israel of carrying out "crimes against humanity" in the Gaza Strip. Chile and Colombia recalled their ambassadors to Israel as they criticize the Israeli military offensive against Hamas militants in the Gaza Strip.
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The apprehension of Pedro Paulo Barrientos Nunez in Deltona, Fla., comes seven years after a federal jury in Florida found the former Chilean military lieutenant liable for the torture and murder of revered Chilean folk singer Victor Jara in the early 1970s.
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George Platt of Fort Lauderdale witnessed the bloody coup that started Augusto Pinochet's long, brutal dictatorship in Chile 50 years ago, on Sept. 11, 1973.