Chile

In Chile a language on the verge of extinction, stirs into life

9:41am October 14, 2024

Ckunsa, an indigenous language in Chile, was declared dead 70 years ago. But groups in northern Chile are successfuly reviving the language and teaching it to a new generation.

Nobel Prize-winning poet Pablo Neruda sits in Paris in October 1971.

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Death of Chilean poet Pablo Neruda should be reinvestigated, court rules

2:28am February 21, 2024

by The Associated Press

The death of Nobel laureate Pablo Neruda days after Chile's 1973 military coup should be reinvestigated, an appeals court has ruled, saying new steps could help clarify what killed the poet.

People against the draft of a new constitution celebrate after the polls closed in Santiago, Chile, Sunday, Dec. 17, 2023.

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Chileans reject conservative constitution to replace dictatorship-era charter

1:45am December 18, 2023

by The Associated Press

The vote came more than a year after Chileans rejected a proposed constitution written by a left-leaning convention. The new document was more conservative than the one it had sought to replace.

Palestinians conduct a search and rescue operation after the second bombardment by the Israeli army in the last 24 hours at Jabalia refugee camp in Gaza City, Gaza, on Wednesday.

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South American leaders are confronting Israel over its offensive in Gaza

4:47pm November 01, 2023

by Carrie Kahn

Bolivia broke off relations with Israel, Chile and Colombia pulled their ambassadors out of Tel Aviv and Brazil has pleaded for an immediate cease-fire in Gaza.

Music & Culture

21 Days of Musica Latina: Chile

1:33pm October 02, 2023

Every weekday through Hispanic Heritage Month, World Cafe dives into the music of a different country in Latin America.

Military jets bombed La Moneda presidential palace during the coup on Sept. 11, 1973, in Santiago, Chile. President Salvador Allende killed himself and Gen. Augusto Pinochet began a 17-year dictatorship.

The U.S. set the stage for a coup in Chile. It had unintended consequences at home

6:00am September 10, 2023

by James Doubek

When the U.S. role in the 1973 coup in Chile became known, activists took action. So did U.S. lawmakers. This is what happened after the U.S. helped topple a Marxist and aided a right-wing dictator.

A view of the images portraying victims of the Augusto Pinochet dictatorship projected onto the La Moneda Presidential Palace to mark the commemoration of the International Day of the Disappeared in Santiago, Chile, on Wednesday.

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Chile will search for 1,000+ victims of forced disappearance by Pinochet dictatorship

3:03pm August 31, 2023

by Carrie Kahn

It is the first time the Chilean government will lead the search for victims, something which victims' relatives and advocates have long carried out themselves and have sought help from the army.

Photographed through a fence, an armored truck is surrounded by police tape at the Arturo Merino Benitez International Airport in Santiago, Chile, on Wednesday. An airport shootout killed a security officer and an alleged robber in what authorities say was an attempted heist of more than $32 million in cash aboard a plane from Miami.

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An attempted airport heist of $32 million in Chile leaves 2 people dead

5:38pm March 08, 2023

by The Associated Press

An airport shootout in Chile's capital killed a security officer and an alleged robber. The cash, aboard a plane from Miami, was being transferred to an armored truck.

Chilean writer, poet and diplomat Pablo Neruda answers journalists' questions in 1971.

Famous poet Pablo Neruda was poisoned after a coup, according to a new report

7:07pm February 15, 2023

by Carrie Kahn

His nephew says scientists found high levels of the bacterium that can cause botulism poisoning. He says it proves that his uncle was injected with the poison at a hospital immediately after the coup.

Pablo Neruda, then serving as Chile's ambassador to France, talks with reporters in Paris after being named winner of the 1971 Nobel Prize for Literature.

He's known as Chile's greatest poet, but feminists say Pablo Neruda is canceled

6:02am October 15, 2022

by John Otis

"He's been canceled," a Chilean activist says of 20th century poet and Nobel laureate Pablo Neruda. Five decades after his death, feminists are denouncing him as a male chauvinist and sexual predator.

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