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Chile's President Gabriel Boric speaks during a joint statement with France's President Emmanuel Macron at La Moneda Presidential Palace in Santiago, on November 20, 2024. (Photo by Ludovic MARIN / AFP) (Photo by LUDOVIC MARIN/AFP via Getty Images)

Chile’s Pension Reform Makes a Case for Political Compromise

The reform raises mandatory contributions and improves women’s benefits, while carrying a high fiscal cost.

Chile: A 2025 Snapshot

AQ tracks political and economic trends to watch and key indicators in 2025.

Chile’s Ephemeral October Revolution

Five years on, the problems that fueled the 2019 social uprising have been overtaken by public safety concerns.

Gabriel Boric’s Unlikely Legacy

Chile’s president is steering the country back to its tradition of moderate politics.

Untangling Chile’s Pension Reform

The government wants to overhaul the pension system, but a gradual modernization would be a more effective path.

Can Chile Meet the Moment on Lithium?

The Boric administration’s lithium strategy, launched last year, has been met with some skepticism.

AQ Podcast: How to Think About Latin America’s Security Crisis

An expert with firsthand knowledge discusses new crime dynamics and ways forward.

Argentine President-elect Javier Milei (left); Chilean President Gabriel Boric (center); Colombian President Gustavo Petro (right).

What Javier Milei Can Learn from Others’ Mistakes

The presidents of Chile and Colombia overestimated their mandates. Argentina’s next leader can avoid a similar path.

AQ Podcast | Chile: Gabriel Boric’s Conundrum

As Chile nears a plebiscite on a second proposal to replace the dictatorship-era constitution, AQ delves into the nation’s political state of play.

Latin America Could See More Nayib Bukeles

Weak political representation and entrenched inequality is fertile ground for imitators of El Salvador’s president, writes AQ’s correspondent.

Chilean President Gabriel Boric will be pragmatic and economically focused on his first visit to China, with the energy transition on top of his to-do list with Xi Jinping.

Boric Needs to Tread Smartly on First Visit to China

The Chilean president will be pragmatic and economically focused, with the energy transition on top of his to-do list with Xi Jinping.

The Coming Crisis for Latin America’s Left-Wing Leaders

Social democrats now rule much of the region—but anti-incumbency, weak parties and more may soon make them an endangered species.

What the World Gets Wrong About Latin America’s Foreign Policy

Assumptions about the region’s homogeneity and limitations on the international stage don’t hold up, writes one expert.

AQ Podcast | Chile: What the 50th Coup Anniversary Tells Us About Politics Today

A political scientist on how commemorations have exposed divisions in Chilean society

Chile’s constitution has been under surgery in a second attempt to recast the fundamental rights that will bring Latin America’s fifth-largest economy into the modern era.

A Last Hope for Chile’s New Constitution?

The ultra-conservative Partido Republicano has a large influence over the constitutional process, and President Boric has already said this will be the final attempt during his term.