Chile

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.

In a packed elections month, several key elections are toss-ups.

Chile’s constitutional rewrite aims to extinguish the lingering legacy of the 1973 coup.

Female leaders saved more lives in Brazil and reinvented stimulus policy in Argentina.

Increased economic inequality has only added to widespread discontent.

Too many Latin American countries are stuck in a cycle of protest and reaction.

Technology transfers to produce shots are slowly underway in the region.

The path is clear for a social democratic revision of its political system—and for a severe backlash.

In a blow to the groups that have governed since democratization, voters chose independent candidates and alternative coalitions to draft a new constitution.

Chile prepares to elect constitutional authors with 50 percent being women, a global milestone.

Many Chileans are hopeful that the upcoming constitutional drafting process can address long-standing issues.

Oscar-nominated “The Mole Agent” is a film noir take on life in a Chilean nursing home.

Stimulus cash in the region aims to create environmentally friendly jobs, but there is room for far more.

Activists built on years of organizing to achieve a groundbreaking gender-parity requirement in the upcoming drafting process.

The country went through three presidents in a week in November—and it might soon have another if it doesn’t pursue a constitutional referendum like neighboring Chile.

Massively in debt to Beijing, countries in the region can’t stand up to China to protect their coasts.

On Sunday, after months of protests, voters can choose to keep or begin a process of replacing the current constitution.