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Chile lawmakers knock down bill to ease abortion rules
By Fabian Cambero SANTIAGO (Reuters) - Chile's lower Chamber of Deputies rejected a bill on Tuesday that sought to expand...
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Chile factory fire spews smoke cloud over capital Santiago
By Natalia A. Ramos Miranda SANTIAGO (Reuters) - A huge fire at a factory in Santiago spewed out a dense...
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Leftist Chile presidential candidate leads new polls as run-off vote looms
By Fabian Cambero SANTIAGO (Reuters) -Chilean leftist candidate Gabriel Boric was leading conservative Jose Antonio Kast in the latest polls...
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Chilean conservative Kast strikes chord in provinces with ‘firm hand’ law and order message
By Natalia A. Ramos Miranda SANTIAGO (Reuters) - In Chile's rural hinterlands, conservative presidential candidate Jose Antonio Kast's message of...
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Chile’s lower house approves same-sex marriage, bill sent back to Senate
SANTIAGO (Reuters) - Chile's lower house approved on Tuesday a bill that would permit same-sex marriage in the South American...
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Enigmatic economist outperformed in Chile ballot. His votes could decide runoff
By Fabian Cambero and Gram Slattery SANTIAGO (Reuters) - Chile is set for a divisive presidential run-off next month between...
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After years of drifting to the left, Chilean voters veer back right
By Gram Slattery, Natalia A. Ramos Miranda and Fabian Cambero SANTIAGO (Reuters) - After years of divisive street protests and...
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Chile headed for divisive election run-off as far-right surges
By Gram Slattery and Natalia A. Ramos Miranda SANTIAGO (Reuters) -Chile is headed for a polarized presidential election runoff next...
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‘Hope over fear’: leftist Boric faces struggle to capture Chile’s political center
By Fabian Cambero SANTIAGO (Reuters) - Former student protest leader and leftist lawmaker Gabriel Boric faces an uphill battle persuading...
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Chile’s Bolsonaro? Hard-right Kast rises, targeting ‘crime and violence’
By Natalia A. Ramos Miranda SANTIAGO (Reuters) - Chilean ultra-conservative Jose Antonio Kast, sometimes likened to Brazilian leader Jair Bolsonaro,...
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Pinochet’s ghost haunts divisive Chilean election
By Gram Slattery SANTIAGO (Reuters) - At a rally for right-wing Chilean presidential candidate José Antonio Kast on Thursday night,...
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Mining giant Antofagasta ‘concerned’ by rising political polarization in Chile
SANTIAGO (Reuters) - Chile's Antofagasta, one of the world's largest copper producers, said on Saturday it was "concerned" by rising...
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‘Burning the metro’: Chile election divides voters between protest and order
By Gram Slattery SANTIAGO (Reuters) - For many Chileans, Plaza Baquedano, a broad rotary in central Santiago that for decades...
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Peru’s Keiko Fujimori backs long-shot effort to impeach President Castillo
LIMA (Reuters) - Peru's Keiko Fujimori, the head of the largest opposition bloc, said on Friday her Popular Force party...
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Chile’s centrists, overshadowed in election, could yet play kingmaker
By Fabian Cambero and Carlos Serrano SANTIAGO (Reuters) - Chile's centrist presidential candidates are lagging behind the polarized favorites on...
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Chile was a regional role model. Now voters want change
By Natalia A. Ramos Miranda SANTIAGO (Reuters) - Chile, stretching along the copper-rich Andean mountains down South America's Pacific coast,...
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Explainer-Chile is set for its most polarized election in decades
By Fabian Cambero SANTIAGO (Reuters) - Chile is set to vote for a new president on Sunday, with a far-right...
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COVID-19 deaths decline 17% in the Americas, says health agency
BRASILIA (Reuters) -COVID-19 deaths have decreased 17% in the Americas over the past week, but the most populous countries like...
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Former protest leader Boric seeks to bury Chile’s ‘neoliberal’ past
By Fabian Cambero SANTIAGO (Reuters) - "If Chile was the cradle of neoliberalism, it will also be its grave." If...
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Chile’s Pinera safe after Senate votes down impeachment bid
By Natalia A. Ramos Miranda and Fabian Cambero SANTIAGO (Reuters) -Chile's Senate voted against removing President Sebastian Pinera from office...
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