The community raises concerns that the real estate project endangers ecosystems, indigenous access, and the last green lung of Punta Fraile.

As President-elect José Antonio Kast's newly nominated undersecretary for telecommunications faces scrutiny from the General Comptroller's office, allegations of overlapping public contracts, a tax debt, and potential conflicts of interest are raising questions about her suitability for the role.

On the eve of International Women's Day, the Chilean Network Against Violence Towards Women has raised concerns over a newly proposed right-wing bill that could potentially benefit criminals, including femicides and sexual offenders, by allowing for sentence commutation.

The general approval of the bill allowing the suspension or substitution of prison sentences has strained one of the most fragile consensuses in Chilean democracy. While the state seeks to advance in truth and memory, the right-wing is pushing an initiative that could benefit those convicted of crimes committed during the dictatorship.

On this March 8th, we, the women who were political prisoners during the civil-military dictatorship in Chile, extend our greetings to the working women of Latin America and express our solidarity with their struggles. We call on today’s women to remain organized and to exercise their right to participate in the country’s political life without fear.

Edited by José Miguel Benavente, Guillermo Larraín, and Diego Pardow, this work compiles research aimed at unlocking the structural knots facing the country with concrete proposals on education, crime, environment, economic growth, and state reform, among other topics.

Luis Schmidt served as Chile's ambassador to China from 2010 to 2014 and again from 2018 to 2022 during the two presidential terms of the late businessman and politician Sebastián Piñera, who notably abandoned a 2021 submarine cable project between Valparaíso and Hong Kong that was being negotiated with Chinese company Huawei.

Chile has recorded a 20.6% reduction in homicide rates from 2022 to 2025, reflecting significant progress in public safety efforts, according to the latest government report.

"In a simple exercise conducted by this judge using a public search engine, it was revealed that the name is associated with 18 individuals sharing the same first name and surnames, making it hard to believe that police personnel, exhibiting such carelessness and not deploying complementary actions to objectively ascertain the identity of a person seemingly at random, could have identified any of them," stated Judge Arturo Iribarren Pérez.

Legislator denied political pressures and expressed his intention to improve the proposed legislation by presenting amendments, noting that what was passed is just the initial idea for legislation. He also pointed out that other senators—Ximena Rincón, Felipe Kast, Jorge Soria, and Sergio Gahona—were also absent during the vote: "This has focused on me, and there are four other parliamentarians who did not vote on this project," he stated.