Ckunsa, an indigenous language in Chile, was declared dead 70 years ago. But groups in northern Chile are successfuly reviving the language and teaching it to a new generation.
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.
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.
Bolivia broke off relations with Israel, Chile and Colombia pulled their ambassadors out of Tel Aviv and Brazil has pleaded for an immediate cease-fire in Gaza.
When the U.S. role in the 1973 coup in Chile became known, activists took action. So did U.S. lawmakers. This is what happened after the U.S. helped topple a Marxist and aided a right-wing dictator.
It is the first time the Chilean government will lead the search for victims, something which victims' relatives and advocates have long carried out themselves and have sought help from the army.
An airport shootout in Chile's capital killed a security officer and an alleged robber. The cash, aboard a plane from Miami, was being transferred to an armored truck.
His nephew says scientists found high levels of the bacterium that can cause botulism poisoning. He says it proves that his uncle was injected with the poison at a hospital immediately after the coup.
"He's been canceled," a Chilean activist says of 20th century poet and Nobel laureate Pablo Neruda. Five decades after his death, feminists are denouncing him as a male chauvinist and sexual predator.
All members of Hacía la Victoria ("Onward to Victory") sustained eye injuries during clashes with police in anti-government protests in 2019. Their lyrics focus on police brutality and their own pain.
Until the end of her days, Abuela Cristina — as many knew her — bided her time making traditional reed baskets, and sharing the Yaghan language and culture with those around her.
The vote on Tuesday makes Chile the eighth Latin American country to extend equal rights to same sex couples, and marks a reversal for the country's conservative leadership.
Of 12 sitting heads of state implicated in the Pandora Papers, most are from low- or middle-income countries. So are many other politicians and elites named in the leaked documents.
After mass protests, and amid a pandemic, Chileans go to the polls Sunday for a referendum over whether to scrap the constitution introduced under Gen. Augusto Pinochet's rule.
