News of chile politics

José Antonio Kast, Chile's most right-wing president since Pinochet, takes office

Today 12:02 José Antonio Kast's rise comes amid a conservative wave sweeping Latin America and after Trump's re-election in the United States.

Politics in Chile

Chile president picks Pinochet lawyers as ministers of human rights, defence

21-01-2026 11:24 Chile's right-wing president-elect names two ex-lawyers of former dictator Augusto Pinochet to lead the ministries of defence and human rights.

ANALYSIS

Chile follows Latin American neighbours in lurching right

16-12-2025 07:49 Leftist leaders have not won a single presidential election in Latin America this year as voters opt for change.

ANALYSIS

Crime, economic woes push South American voters to right

18-11-2025 15:36 Reasons why South Americans are electing right-wing candidates this year differ in each country, but they’re all driving the region in the same political direction.

Kast Migrant Policy

Chile’s far-right candidate says migrants must pay for their own deportation

28-10-2025 15:50 Far-right candidate José Antonio Kast pledges migrants will cover their own deportation costs as Chile’s election campaign intensifies.

Immigration & Politics

Chile presidential hopeful vows to deport 'all' undocumented migrants

23-09-2025 13:18 Far-right candidate José Antonio Kast says he will deport all undocumented migrants from national territory if elected.

POLITICS – ANALYSIS

‘Golden boy’ Milei is beginning to look like Chile’s Boric

20-09-2025 06:34 The self-proclaimed first anarcho-capitalist president in world history is under siege. A tough defeat in local elections in Buenos Aires Province laid bare a situation of absolute precariousness, with both markets and the political class testing his resolve.

by Agustino Fontevecchia

EDITORIAL

Home away from Rome

30-11-2024 05:06 Returning Argentina to the world is not a straight or single line like any flight abroad – nor for that matter like domestic economic policy.

CHILEAN LEADER

Chile President Gabriel Boric denies sexual harassment complaint

26-11-2024 09:20 Through his lawyer, Chilean President Gabriel Boric "categorically" denies allegations foiled in a criminal complaint claiming he sexually harassed a woman over a decade ago.

Latin America

Killings and prison torture raise alarms over gang crime in Chile

30-10-2024 13:45 Murders, violent crime and drug seizures have increased; Chile more than tripled spending since 2022 to meet threat.

PRESIDENT IN BRAZIL

Milei backs Bolsonaro without attacking Lula in Brazil visit

08-07-2024 11:17 Javier Milei headlines conservative rally in southern Brazil alongside right-wing former president Jair Bolsonaro, the biggest gamble yet on his unorthodox foreign policy approach.

News of chile politics

José Antonio Kast, Chile's most right-wing president since Pinochet, takes office

Chile president picks Pinochet lawyers as ministers of human rights, defence

Chile follows Latin American neighbours in lurching right

Crime, economic woes push South American voters to right

Chile’s far-right candidate says migrants must pay for their own deportation

Chile presidential hopeful vows to deport 'all' undocumented migrants

‘Golden boy’ Milei is beginning to look like Chile’s Boric

Home away from Rome

Chile President Gabriel Boric denies sexual harassment complaint

Killings and prison torture raise alarms over gang crime in Chile

Milei backs Bolsonaro without attacking Lula in Brazil visit

Milei reactivates Santa Cruz dams, consolidating strategic rapprochement with China

José Antonio Kast, Chile's most right-wing president since Pinochet, takes office

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