Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. STORY: :: Makarena Avendano A tornado ripped across the city of Puerto Varas in southern Chile on Sunday. The severe weather ...

José Antonio Kast has won Chile’s presidential election, with the far-right leader getting about 58% of the vote in Sunday’s runoff against Jeannette Jara, a member of the Communist Party who served ...

A massive power outage across Chile plunged 90% of the country into complete darkness on Tuesday. Streetlights went out in the capital Santiago, while mobile phone services were knocked offline, and ...

On election night, I am visiting a town on the northern coast of Chile, here to direct a small group of tourists through this long, thin country’s archaeological sites. The group is made up of mostly ...

John Bartlett for NPR Out beyond Isla Focus, a bare island in the fjords an hour off the coast of Puerto Natales, southern Chile, the waves pick up and the Calipso rocks alarmingly from side to side.

Voiceover: Two indigenous Mapuche prisoners in Chile have ended a 76-day hunger strike, which they initiated on November 14th of 2012. Hector Llaitul and Ramón Llanquileo say they are political ...

People are fleeing to higher ground after cell phone and siren warnings of a tsunami were issued in southern Argentina and Chile. People in southern Argentina and coastal Chile are running out of ...

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