Charis McGowan

Un­prece­dent­ed ac­knowl­edge­ment of state cul­pa­bil­i­ty in HIV/AIDS case ‘sets stan­dards’ across the re­gion, ad­vo­cates say.

New re­port finds ‘stag­ger­ing in­equal­i­ty’ the core fac­tor be­hind dis­pro­por­tion­ate COVID-19 death rates in re­gion.

As Se­bas­t­ian Pin­era pre­pares to leave of­fice, crit­ics say he has failed to ad­dress rights abus­es com­mit­ted on his watch.

As Chile’s pres­i­den­tial runoff nears, some women fear vic­to­ry for Jose An­to­nio Kast may roll back their rights.

Pro­gres­sive rep­re­sen­ta­tives elect­ed to draft a new Chilean con­sti­tu­tion say en­vi­ron­men­tal pro­tec­tion will be para­mount.

De­spite suc­cess­ful vac­ci­na­tion dri­ve, in­fec­tions are in­creas­ing across Chile, ex­ac­er­bat­ing deep-seat­ed in­equal­i­ties.

From bang­ing pots to vir­tu­al art, ac­tivists are or­gan­is­ing at home and on­line to con­tin­ue protests over in­equal­i­ty.

In Chile’s drought-rid­den Petor­ca, even the sim­ple di­rec­tive of wash­ing one’s hands is near­ly im­pos­si­ble.

Rober­to Cam­pos Weiss faces up to 10 years in jail un­der con­tro­ver­sial state se­cu­ri­ty law for hit­ting a sub­way turn­stile.

Against a back­drop of dai­ly protests, Chileans are or­gan­is­ing neigh­bour­hood gath­er­ings to dis­cuss a way for­ward.