Russians Are Unraveling Before Our Eyes
A wave of fresh humiliations has the Kremlin struggling to control the narrative.
Chile’s rightward lurch is an opportunity to expand the supply of lithium, a critical battery resource.
Progressives championed a rewrite. Now right-wing parties are in control.
Washington needs lithium—but its history of intervention in the region complicates things.
Leftist President Gabriel Boric has been reluctant to tackle arson in Mapuche communities to avoid alienating his base.
The dry heat has worsened deadly forest fires in Chile and caused expensive droughts in Argentina’s and Uruguay’s agriculture sectors.
On a visit to South America, the chancellor pitched partnership rather than exploitation.
The exiled filmmaker’s latest work is a passionate—if incomplete—account of the 2019 estallido and its aftermath.
Resource-rich Chile stands to profit off the energy transition—if its leftist president signs a deal despised by his base.
Historically, voters around the world have approved new constitutions 94 percent of the time. What went wrong this time?
Ramping up production may be harder than it sounds in the “lithium triangle.”
It’s back to the drawing board for the country—and President Gabriel Boric.
Whatever happens in Sunday’s referendum, the constitutional debate is far from over.
But the country’s cycle of political change remains in flux ahead of a September referendum on the progressive charter.
CPAC Brasil is evidence that Bolsonaro’s brand of conservatism is becoming more mainstream elsewhere in South America.
Even if the new constitution is adopted, Chile’s anti-democratic right wing is here to stay.
The country aims to lure investors and become a global clean energy hub.
The Chilean women’s soccer team is disrupting the status quo.
This year, voters from Chile to Honduras to Peru elected leftist leaders who promised to ease endemic inequality.
Far-right candidate José Antonio Kast threatens to politicize the country’s constitutional rewrite.