José Antonio Kast, an admirer of Donald Trump, has vowed to slash $6 billion in spending, deport 300,000 immigrants and expand the powers of the army to fight organized crime.

The high mountains of central Chile look solid and eternal, but their ice is in trouble. For fifteen years, the country has ...

Chile elects hard-right José Antonio Kast as president, marking sharp political shift with focus on security and immigration reform.

Chile needs order — order in the streets, in the state, in the priorities that have been lost,” José Antonio Kast bellowed in a lengthy victory speech.

Jose Antonio Kast won Chile’s presidential election on Sunday, leveraging voter fears over rising crime and migration to take the country to its sharpest rightward shift since the end of dictatorship ...

José Antonio Kast has promised to reverse Chile’s recent surge in violent crime. He also says he will deport undocumented ...

Chile’s ultraconservative opposition candidate, José Antonio Kast, has secured a thumping victory in the presidential runoff election.

Claudia Heiss, a political scientist at the University of Chile, analyzes the factors behind the popular vote that brought ...

Chilean state-owned copper producer Codelco and private miner SQM (SQM) announced Saturday the creation of a giant company ...

José Antonio Kast has won Chile’s presidential election, with the far-right leader getting about 58% of the vote in Sunday’s ...

Chile’s central bank cut its key interest rate by a quarter point for the second time this year, while bringing forward its forecast for when inflation will hit the target.

Chile has become the latest country in Latin America to veer toward the right, electing a deeply conservative veteran ...