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Chile initiated proceedings this week to attempt, for a second time, to rewrite its constitution — six months after the previous attempt was overwhelmingly rejected by the Chilean electorate in 2022.

Chile lost over $50 billion in investment cash between the beginning of violent leftist riots in 2019 and September 2022, Bloomberg reported on Thursday – and with a hardline socialist president, prospects for what was once Latin America’s most successful economy look bleak.

Chile’s far-left President Gabriel Boric is facing a lawsuit by lawmakers this week in response to his decision in December to pardon a former Marxist guerrilla member and several others imprisoned for participating in leftist riots between 2019 and 2021.

The election of convicted felon Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva to the presidency of Brazil in October – a hardline socialist who had, in his previous presidencies, been seen as the leader of the international left – prompted a wave of celebrations among the world’s Marxists that Latin America had finally fallen into near-complete leftist rule.

CARACAS — Venezuela’s socialist dictator Nicolás Maduro lashed out against leftist politicians who have criticized him for being a dictator — without naming one in particular — during an event in the infamous Sao Paulo Forum on Friday.

Secretary of State Antony Blinken continued his ongoing tour of Latin America, landing in Peru on Thursday, where the Organization of American States (OAS) will be holding its annual General Assembly.

Far-left Chilean President Gabriel Boric condemned fellow leftists during a conversation in New York on Thursday for failing to criticize the human rights abuses of leftist leaders, demanding “no double standards” for human dignity. He then proceeded to favorably quote Russian communist mass murderer Vladimir Lenin.

Chile’s radical left, anti-Israel president Gabriel Boric refused to accept the credentials of Israel’s new ambassador in a major breach of protocol that has ignited a diplomatic spat between the two countries.

Left-wing Chilean President Gabriel Boric sparked a major diplomatic crisis on Thursday by refusing to accept the credentials of Israel’s new ambassador to Chile, Gil Artzyeli.

Half of Chile’s population still wants to replace the nation’s constitution, according to a poll carried out by the Chilean market research company Cadem one week after the nation voted overwhelmingly against replacing the constitution.

An overwhelming majority of Chileans voted Sunday to reject the proposed draft of a radical far-left constitution that would have replaced the nation’s 42-year-old constitution with the “world’s most progressive” core legal structure. 

The foreign ministry of Chile issued an outraged statement on Monday condemning conservative Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro after the latter claimed during a presidential election debate the day before that leftist Chilean President Gabriel Boric had “set fire to the Metro,” a reference to riots that gripped the country in 2019.

Colombia – under its first-ever leftist president, ex-guerrilla member Gustavo Petro – revived a longtime far-left hope of creating a unified South American currency to defy the U.S. dollar, the online journal Diario Las Américas reported on Thursday.

The latest round of polls from the first week of August in Chile show that a plurality of voters rejects the implementation of a new, radical leftist constitution meant to replace its only 42-year-old core legal structure.

A Chinese drug trafficking syndicate known as the “Bang de Fujian” has been building a high-tech indoor marijuana cultivating empire in Chile since at least 2020, multiple news reports in the country confirmed this week, citing the Investigations Police of Chile (PDI).

A news cameraman for a major network in Chile experienced a robbery in broad daylight, allegedly by a deliveryman on a bicycle, during a live broadcast on Monday – the second such incident after robbers stole the mobile phone a fireman was using to appear on live television out of his hand while he was speaking to a news anchor.

China has spent much of the past two decades cornering Chile’s lucrative copper and lithium markets, potentially making it impossible for nearly any other country to establish a formidable “green” economy, as both resources are pivotal in the making of electric vehicles.

Leftist President Gabriel Boric of Chile appeared not to recognize President Joe Biden’s special climate envoy John Kerry at a Summit of the Americas event on Thursday, railing against America for not partaking while Kerry was only two seats away from Boric.

Chile’s far-left President Gabriel Boric said on Monday that he hoped to “imitate” a policy implemented by leftist Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau to significantly limit gun ownership in the country.

Far-left President Gabriel Boric of Chile issued a plea, Argentine news outlet Infobae reported on Tuesday, for the nation to stop a trend of what he called “normalizing violence” after leftist groups rioted in Santiago, resulting in three injured from gunshot wounds during the Marxist holiday known as “May Day.”

Chileans on Friday protested against outgoing president Sebastian Pinera’s attempt to push through a last-minute lithium mining contract before leftist president Gabriel Boric takes office in two months, and possibly nationalizes the lithium industry.

The Mapuche Lavkenche Resistance (RML), an indigenous separatist guerrilla in Chile, took responsibility for a violent assault that resulted in the burning down of 31 estates in southern Bío Bío on Tuesday night, declaring that the election of a communist-supported radical as president would not stop their war on the Chilean state.

Chile elected Gabriel Boric its president on Sunday, a sharp turn left after two years of Marxist mob violence targeting churches and government institutions. Boric is a far-left radical protest organizer endorsed by the Communist Party.

Members of the ruling National Renovation Party in Chile demanded that U.N. High Commissioner for Human Rights Michelle Bachelet resign on Wednesday after Bachelet endorsed the Communist Party-backed candidate in the nation’s presidential election.

An angry mob of leftists assaulted supporters of conservative presidential candidate José Antonio Kast in Santiago, Chile, in broad daylight on Sunday, pelting them with rocks and attempting to beat them publicly.

Conservative presidential candidate José Antonio Kast of Chile denounced the growing pattern of leftist violence against him campaign on Thursday after a mob assaulted a group of his supporters at a campaign event and a separate leftist mob attacked him and a pregnant staffer on Tuesday.

Conservative candidate José Antonio Kast narrowly defeated communist-supported candidate Gabriel Boric on Sunday in the first round of presidential elections in Chile, setting the stage for a run-off vote in December lacking any centrist option.