‘It’s the wildest place I have walked’: new national park will join up Chile’s 2,800km wildlife corridor

Chile’s government is poised to create the country’s 47th national park, protecting nearly 200,000 hectares (500,000 acres) of pristine wilderness and completing a wildlife corridor stretching 1,700 miles (2,800km) to the southernmost tip of the Americas. …

Latin America Rising: How did India Deepen Economic and Political Links with Brazil, Argentina, Chile and Beyond in 2025

Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s visits to Latin America in 2025, particularly to Brazil for the BRICS Summit in Rio de Janeiro and to Argentina for bilateral talks, have re-energised India’s engagement with a region that has long remained peripheral to New …

Bitcoiners waiting for a “Bukele moment” in Chile are ignoring a $229 billion signal that matters more

Chile has made a hard pivot. In a decisive Dec. 14 runoff, José Antonio Kast, a conservative former congressman and leader of the Republican Party, won the presidency with roughly 58% of the vote over leftist Jeannette Jara. It marks Chile’s starkest …

Chile’s new president is an arch-conservative and ardent supporter of the Pinochet dictatorship

Chileans have elected the most right-wing presidential candidate since the end of the Augusto Pinochet dictatorship over three and a half decades ago. In a runoff held on December 14, 2025, José Antonio Kast, a Republican Party ex-congressman and two-time …

Chile INAPI celebrates a year of institutional transformation, regional expansion and AI-driven modernisation

As part of an end-of-year Q&A series with major IP offices, WTR speaks with the national director of the Chilean IP Office about a technically decisive and strategically transformative year. Register for free for limited access Register for free to …

Over 4 million boxes checked: Inside the SAG/USDA fresh fruit inspection site in Cabrero, Chile

A new season began at the Inspection Site in Cabrero, Southern Chile. There, the South American country’s Agricultural and Livestock Service (SAG) works in conjunction with the US Department of Agriculture Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (USDA- …

A 15,600-year-old human footprint in Chile may rewrite the story of the first Americans

It does not look like a breakthrough at first. Just the faint outline of a foot, pressed into what was once soft ground and later hardened by time. No bones nearby. No tools neatly arranged. And yet this single footprint, found in southern Chile, may be …

Telefonica Tech sells Colombia, Mexico and Chile operations to Hiberus

Telefonica has reached an agreement to sell the operations of its Telefonica Tech unit in Colombia, Mexico and Chile to Spanish technology consultancy firm Hiberus for an undisclosed sum. The deal, which is subject to standard regulatory approvals, is …

Learning From Defeat in Chile

Giorgio JacksonWe can speak of five contemporary factors. The first is economic stagnation and very low growth in the last decade compared to the previous one, which, of course, limits the options for working families to achieve good material conditions. …

Chile's former president Michelle Bachelet believes it's time for a woman at the helm of the UN