Chile News

A member of a team sent to Honduras to monitor implementation of a U.S.-brokered deal says interim leaders violated the accord by forming a unity government without the ousted president's input.

Casadetodos, a single family unit in the El Arrayan area of Santiago, Chile, was recently completed by Chile-based architect Veronica Arcos.

They are the face of Chilean guidebooks: giant statues made of volcanic rock scattered across Easter Island.

Ousted Honduran President Manuel Zelaya said on Thursday that a deal to end a four-month political crisis was at risk of collapse but behind the scenes negotiators worked to form a temporary cabinet to run the country.

With nominations in five categories including album of the year, the Puerto Rican reggaeton duo Calle 13 is a favorite to win a Latin Grammy in Las Vegas - which might have producers of the international awards ceremony on edge.

Close to 450,000 Chilean public employees went on a 48-hour strike demanding an across-the-board wage hike of 8 percent.

A Honduran lawmaker says congressional leaders will seek the opinions of several government entities before convoking the full legislature to vote on reinstating ousted President Manuel Zelaya.

SANTIAGO: Silvia Munoz has searched for decades for the remains of her father, who was executed during the dictatorship of Gen.

MANILA a ' A tropical storm roared toward Vietnam on Sunday after battering this capital and surrounding provinces, leaving 20 people dead in a region still soggy from three recent storms.

The U.S. secretary of labor and a former Chilean president were named Sunday to a commission tasked with monitoring the creation of a power-sharing government in Honduras, under a U.S.-brokered agreement to end the nation's 4-month-old political crisis.

In Ecuador, the Shuar are blocking highways to defend their hunting grounds. In Chile, the Mapuche are occupying ranches to pressure for land, schools and clinics.

In this Sept. 11, 2008 file photo, relatives of dissidents who disappeared under the dictatorship of Gen.

Chilean President Michelle Bachelet and her Argentine counterpart Cristina Fernandez signed a treaty on Friday to promote integration and cooperation between the two countries.

According to the autopsy, Jaime Mendoza Collo, 24, was shot in the back while trying to occupy a Region IX farm with 50 others who claimed ancestral ownership of the land.

Chile and Argentina agreed Friday to build road and railway tunnels across their common border in a project aimed at opening two new routes through the towering Andes, officials said.

Every once in a rare while comes a singer with such an extraordinary voice and uncommon musical gift that it touches deeply the souls of all who hear her.

SANTIAGO, Chile - At first, breaking the gender barrier in South America did not go smoothly for Michelle Bachelet .

Master Sgt. Vincent Jones hands out candy to sixth-grade students of Colegio Macaya during a joint U.S./Chilean air force visit to the school Oct.

Reports of police violence against Mapuche children in the southern Chilean region of Araucania prompted the country's UNICEF representative, Gary Stahl, to express the agency's deep concern at a meeting with three government ministers.

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