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Chile's Capital Braces for Heat Wave, More Expected

Chile's capital, Santiago, is currently experiencing a heat wave, and experts are cautioning that more hot weather is expected in the future. Stay informed...

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Winging it at a Santiago stopover, a stone's throw from the Andes

Alex Morris checks in from Santiago, Chile

Newcastle Herald

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Chile votes to reject new conservative constitution which threatened rights of women

Current constitution dating back to the dictatorship of Gen Augusto Pinochet will now stay in place after two drafts were rejected in referendums

The Guardian - AU

‘They violated our rights’: Chile’s draft constitution fails women, say activists

Last year, a liberal constitution to replace the Pinochet-era one was rejected. Now a referendum will be held on a new draft that curbs abortion rights and enshrines Catholic morality. Here, five women reflect on 2019’s protests and the struggle for equality

The Guardian - UK

Extradition of singer’s alleged killer raises hopes of justice for Pinochet era

Pedro Barrientos touched down in Santiago on Friday to face trial for murder of folk singer Víctor Jara in 1973

The Guardian - US

‘Sometimes you feel you’re in Palestine’: culture and cause burn brightly in Chile

Chile has the largest Palestinian diaspora outside the Middle East – and it is lending its considerable weight to the call for justice

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Joan Jara, British dancer and Victor Jara’s widow, dies aged 96

The human rights activist died two weeks before her husband’s killer is due for extradition from US to Chile

The Guardian - US

From sport to music, Chile’s Palestinian diaspora rallies to support Gaza

Chile is home to the largest Palestinian population outside of the Middle East, making the community a political force.

Al Jazeera

Abraham Ancer Edges Out Fellow LIV Golfer For Pan American Games Gold

Abraham Ancer proved too strong at the Pan American Games in Santiago

Golf Monthly

How Ben Lindau overcame a stroke and built a soccer career

A Chicago native, Lindau will be part of the U.S. Men’s Cerebral Palsy National Team that will play at the Parapan American Games next month in Santiago, Chile.

Chicago Sun-Times

American Boxer Jajaira Gonzalez Secures Spot In Paris Olympics After Pan American Games Win

Gonzalez's victory in Santiago earns her a direct ticket to represent the US in the 2024 Olympics

Zenger

AP PHOTOS: Pan American Games bring together Olympic hopefuls from 41 nations

Athletes from 41 nations are competing at The Pan American Games in the capital of Chile, Santiago, and many are looking to qualify for the Olympics. The Games are the largest multi-sport event in the Americas and are held every four years, preceding the Olympics by a year.

The Independent UK

Pan American Games start in disarray with cleaners still working around the National Stadium

Workers and volunteers at the Pan American Games were still removing bricks, pieces of wood and construction machinery from outside competition venues on the fourth of the largest multi-sport event in the region

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Dark past of the National Stadium in Chile reemerges with opening ceremony at the Pan American Games

The National Stadium in Santiago will host the opening ceremony of the Pan American Games on Friday

AAP

Aussie Sakakibara edges closer to BMX world title

Saya Sakakibara has won the BMX Racing World Cup event in Santiago to move one step closer to winning the world title.

The Guardian - UK

‘It became an obsession’: the long search for the remains of Pinochet’s victims

As Chile marks 50 years since the coup, women who have scoured the desert for remains of their husbands fear the brutality of the death squads will be forgotten

Crikey

50 years on, Australia still schtum on aiding the violent Pinochet coup in Chile

The Pinochet regime imprisoned, tortured and murdered countless Chileans, and Australia is keen to keep its involvement off the books.

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

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.

Al Jazeera

Fifty years after Chile’s coup, the search for truth continues

As 1973 coup still reverberates, a man is pushing for full history of US role in Augusto Pinochet’s rise and fall.

The Guardian - UK

The big picture: an image that defined Chile’s brutal 1973 coup

Koen Wessing, a young Dutch photographer, flew to Santiago 50 years ago and showed the world what General Pinochet’s rule would mean for the country

The Guardian - UK

John Brierley obituary

Other lives: Author of guidebooks to the pilgrim routes of the Camino de Santiago de Compostela

The Guardian - UK

My Imaginary Country review – thrilling scenes from Chile’s subway revolution

Patricio Guzmán’s staggering documentary examines popular protest that swept through Chile in 2019, when hundreds of thousands of people – chiefly young women – took to the streets of Santiago

Newsroom.co.nz

Wayne to Busan: lessons for Auckland from Korea’s second city

Auckland Mayor Wayne Brown is rubbing shoulders this weekend with mayors from cities like New Orleans, Santiago and Mombasa at the World Climate Industry Expo in Busan

AFP

Bird flu fells nearly 9,000 marine creatures in Chile

Santiago (AFP) - Nearly 9,000 sea lions, penguins, otters and small cetaceans have died in an avian flu outbreak battering Chile's north coast, the South American country's fisheries service said Thursday.

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