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Soldier guard the old Mapocho train station, now a cultural center, that will be used as a polling station for the general election in Santiago, Chile, Friday, Nov. 14, 2025. (AP Photo/Esteban Felix)

Chile’s presidential race headed to tense runoff between communist and hard-right candidates

November 16, 2025 at 6:28 p.m.

The communist candidate of Chile’s center-left government, Jeannette Jara, and a hard-right veteran politician, José Antonio Kast, will vie for the country’s presidency in a runoff vote next month.

FILE – This photo combo shows presidential frontrunner Yamandu Orsi, left, of the Broad Front coalition, on Oct. 22, 2024, and opponent, National Party candidate Alvaro Delgado, on Nov. 20, 2024, both in Montevideo, Uruguay. (AP Photo Matilde Campodonico, left; and AP Photo Santiago Mazzarovich, File)

Uruguay’s conservative candidate concedes hard-fought presidential runoff to left-wing challenger

November 24, 2024 at 7:57 p.m.

Uruguayans on Sunday voted in the second round of the country's presidential election, with the conservative governing party and the left-leaning coalition locked in a close runoff after failing to...

FILE – The Bolaños children, from left, Sebastian, Kamila and Miguel Angel, from Venezuela, watch videos on a mobile phone outside the bus terminal where they are living with their single mother Keilly and one other sibling, along with other migrants in Villahermosa, Mexico, June 8, 2024. Their mother was captured in the northern state of Juarez, where she said she was beaten by the military in front of her children, loaded on a bus for two days, and left in Villahermosa. (AP Photo/Felix Marquez, File)

As fallout surges from Venezuela’s election crisis, the region fears another mass exodus

August 15, 2024 at 8:45 a.m.

President Nicolás Maduro’s contested claim of victory in last month’s election not only threw Venezuela into uncertainty but also spread anxiety from neighboring Colombia to faraway Chile as the region...

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