A parliamentary candidate is pushing a Neurodiversity Law to replace Chile’s current TEA (Autism) Law, with guaranteed funding to turn promised rights into real support—specialists, therapies, and services—for those who need them most.

The October 6, 1975 attack left Bernardo Leighton with permanent brain damage and his wife, Anita Fresno, paraplegic. Yet despite the tribute’s historic significance in Italy, most coverage focused on President Gabriel Boric’s criticism of Nicolás Maduro as he linked the Ronald Ojeda case to Venezuela’s regime.

After records showed Jos Antonio Kast's strategist Cristin Valenzuela received more than $95 million pesos from Dipres, the Finance Ministry and Servel for consulting, professional services and campaign reimbursements, critics on social media labeled him an "expensive parasite" funded by taxpayers.

Matías Acevedo cuts through the campaign noise with data: central government staffing rose by 27,700 (not 100,000 as José Antonio Kast claimed), warns that sweeping public-sector cuts will collide with reality, and points to IMF support and an 'A' credit rating as evidence of Chile’s solvency.

Amid the election season, Central Bank president Rosanna Costa released a study that directly links minimum-wage increases to unemployment, recasting her long-held orthodox stance against the wage floor, unions, and sector-wide bargaining into a polished econometric case. She has championed these ideas for decades at Libertad y Desarrollo; in 2008 she argued the 'problem with jobs is minimum wage policy' and that 'what is needed is to lower real wages'.

After uproar over the "Parásitos" column and revelations that Kast's adviser sits on the ADP panel of Chile's Senior Public Management system, Socialist deputy Daniel Manouchehri said he will summon Cristián Valenzuela to the Finance Committee to explain his role and remarks, while FA deputy Gael Yeomans filed a request with the Civil Service seeking details on duties, sessions, selection mechanisms and payments.

Chile's former president attended the World Leaders' Conference on Women in Beijing on October 13–14 and met with Foreign Minister Wang Yi, as China praised her work and called her a "friend of the Chinese people."

In Peru, presidents fall like dominoes while the power structure stays intact. Congress’s removal of Dina Boluarte for "permanent moral incapacity" and the interim swearing-in of José Jerí signal not a new phase but the reaffirmation of unelected power—held by Congress and the economic elites that sustain it.

At ENADE 2025, presidential candidate Jeannette Jara vowed to pursue inclusive growth in partnership with business, insisting that prosperity "must reach every Chilean household" while balancing security and social rights.

Chile's Chamber of Deputies publishes detailed attendance by lawmaker as a core accountability metric. With José Antonio Kast logging 146 absences between 2006 and 2018, the figure prompts a public question about whether legislative work standards align with the taxpayer funds that support parliamentary representation.