Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. When Gabriel Boric was sworn in as president of Chile in 2022, his victory was heralded by supporters as the beginning of a new ...

SANTIAGO, Chile (AP) — Fans sported MAGA-style caps. AC/DC blasted from the speakers. Red, white and blue flags flapped in the wind. Crowds whooped and cheered as the man of the hour lamented the ...

Chilean President Gabriel Boric arrives to celebrate Army Day and Independence Day, in Santiago, Chile, Sept. 19, 2025 (AP photo by Esteban Felix). Chile has held seven nationwide ballots in the six ...

Chile’s newest political history will be shaped by José Antonio Kast of the Republican Party, and the country’s latest dramatic shift to the right after a second round, and likely final round, of ...

Jose Antonio Kast speaks after his Republican Party obtained the largest number of representatives in the election for the Constitutional Council, in Santiago, Chile, May 7, 2023 (AP photo by Esteban ...

SANTIAGO – Jose Antonio Kast won Chile’s presidential election on Sunday, leveraging voter fears over rising crime and migration to steer the country in its sharpest rightward shift since the end of ...

A new chapter has begun for Chilean politics. After defeating candidate Jeannette Jara in the runoff election by 58% to 41%, President José Antonio Kast now governs at another milestone in the country ...

SANTIAGO, Chile (AP) — As Chileans voted on Sunday, even detractors of ultra-conservative former lawmaker José Antonio Kast said the candidate whose radical ideas lost him the past two elections was ...

When Gabriel Boric was sworn in as president of Chile in 2022, his victory was heralded by supporters as the beginning of a new era in the country’s political history. The leftist leader, only 36 at ...