Chile

Germany plans talks with Chile over site tied to cult led by abusive German preacher

The enclave, originally called Colonia Dignidad and renamed Villa Baviera, was founded in 1961 by Paul Schaefer, an evangelical preacher who was later jailed for sexually abusing children.

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The name of Villa Baviera, formerly Colonia Dignidad, is engraved on a stone at the settlement created by German immigrants that served as a secret prison during Augusto Pinochet's dictatorship (1973-1990), on the outskirts of Parral, Chile, July 20, 2025.
US PRESIDENT Donald Trump attends an event to sign an executive order authorizing the construction of an access road to the Ambler mining district in Alaska, at the White House, in Washington, DC, US, October 6, 2025.

Trump administration to overturn Biden's Minnesota mining ban

The move has been in development for much of the past year and involves a complex series of legislative steps that will benefit Antofagasta's Twin Metals copper, cobalt, and nickel project.

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A DELEGATION from Chile stands with Israeli hosts at the Technion-Israel Institute of Technology in Haifa. Ivan Enrique Pardes Pichinao (the representative with a headband behind the Israeli flag) is the president of a Mapuche community called Kupal Pichinao.

Indigenous solidarity: Mapuche leader visits Israel, finds common ground with Jewish people

DIASPORA AFFAIRS: A delegation from Chile, including the current president of a Mapuche community called Kupal Pichinao, Ivan Enrique Pardes Pichinao, recently visited Israel for the first time.

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Jose Antonio Kast, presidential candidate of the far-right Republican Party of Chile, and his wife Maria Pia Adriasola Barroilhet, arrive at a polling station to vote during a presidential runoff election, in Santiago, Chile, December 14, 2025.

Pro-Israel candidate Kast, son of Nazi official, wins Chilean presidential elections

Son of a Nazi official, Kast will replace a Chilean administration led by Gabriel Boric, a vocal critic of Israel and the government of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.

|ByTOBIAS HOLCMAN

Two Israelis die in Chile boating accident

About a dozen people were injured when a boat overturned in the Torres del Paine national park region.

FEBRUARY 25, 2019ByJERUSALEM POST STAFF
A 2017 photo of tourists at the Torres del Paine National Park in Chile

Israeli traveler evacuated from Torre Del Paine trek in Chile

The traveler sent the SOS through a satellite device created by MAGNUS, an international search & rescue service provider.

JANUARY 16, 2019ByALON EINHORN
Landscape of the Torres del Paine national park in the southern Patagonia region of Chile

BDS declared illegal for all cities in Chile

It is illegal for municipalities to boycott Israel, the Chilean National Comptroller determined this week.

DECEMBER 6, 2018ByLAHAV HARKOV
Hernán López, Executive Director of CCHIL (Left) and Gabriel Colodro, President of CCHIL (right)

Haley: New human rights chief must address UNHRC failures, Israel bias

The commissioner does not control the UN Human Rights Council, but it is run through that office and part of Bachelet’s new job will be to report to the UNHRC.

AUGUST 10, 2018ByTOVAH LAZAROFF
Chile's former President Michelle Bachelet leaves the Congress after the inauguration ceremony of Chile's newly sworn in President Sebastian Pinera in Valparaiso, Chile March 11, 2018.

Legal action taken against first BDS motion by Latin American municipality

AUGUST 9, 2018ByJEREMY SHARON
A member of the Palestinian community in Chile paints a Palestinian flag on her face during a protest against Israel's military operations in Gaza

Direct TLV-South America flights to begin in December

LATAM will become the only airline to operate direct flights between Israel and South America.

APRIL 8, 2018ByMAX SCHINDLER
A PLANE at Ben-Gurion International Airport.

Chile’s little secret – a tale of two communities

Palestinians in Lebanon and Syria have been impoverished and massacred. On the other hand, Palestinians in Chile continue to enjoy significant success, by any standards.

DECEMBER 27, 2017ByRON JONTOF - HUTTER
CHILEANS RAISE their flag during a political campaign earlier this month.

Yad Vashem honors Chilean righteous among the nations

Chilean diplomat honored for issuing passports which prevented the deportation of over 1000 Jews during the Holocaust.

OCTOBER 22, 2017ByTAMARA ZIEVE
From left to right: Dr. Christian Beals Campos, Relative of Samuel del Campo; Sergio Della Pergola, Member of the Committee for the Designation of Righteous Among the Nations; and Irena Steinfeldt, Director of the Righteous Among the Nations Department at Yad Vashem.

Chile exposes secret Nazi spy rings

The state secret of how Nazi supporters labored to bring the Reich to Latin America that was kept for decades.

JUNE 24, 2017ByREUTERS
Books of Chile's Civil Police with declassified files relating to Nazi espionage

Chilean Jews concerned over 'imported' Israeli-Palestinian conflict

Tensions are present on soccer fields, in media and universities.

JUNE 19, 2017ByTAMARA ZIEVE
What appears to be a swastika spray-painted on a wall of the University of Chile in downtown Santiago [File]