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The Chilean capital Santiago awoke on Wednesday to a mixture of celebration and tension.
As the city prepared for the inauguration of its centre-right president, the new government’s first crisis was already unfolding behind the scenes: an undersea fibre-optic cable linking the South American countr
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Chile's ultraconservative José Antonio Kast takes office as president Wednesday in what will mark the Latin American nation’s most pronounced shift to the right since the return of democracy in 1990. The Trump-inspired political veteran won a landslide victory in December with the promise of fightin
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José Antonio Kast, who voted against legalising divorce in 2004, has pushed for return to total abortion ban
Women’s rights activists in Chile are bracing as the most conservative president since the Pinochet dictatorship prepares to take office on Wednesday.
José Antonio Kast, a 60-year-old ultra C
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Chilean Environment Ministry suspends 43 measures touching on issues such as pollution, emissions and national parks.
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Experts say the views of newly inaugurated president Jose Antonio Kast reflect deep dissatisfaction with the status quo.
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The new president won office by promising to clean up crime, but his background is red rag to a bull for many
Just south of Santiago, the tiny rural town of Paine is a quiet grid of painted abode facades, shaded squares and shuttered shop fronts as the summer holidays draw to a close.
But the white-
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