Chile

• Tuesday, November 3rd 2026 - 09:18 UTC

  Ayuso honours Kast in Madrid on the eve of the Ibero-American Summit: “We defend the same things”

  

  The president of the Madrid regional government, Isabel Díaz Ayuso, on Monday awarded the region’s International Medal to Chilean President José Antonio Kast, who is in the Spanish capital for the 30th Ibero-American Summit of Heads of State and Government. “On both sides of the Atlantic we defend the same things,” Ayuso said at the ceremony.

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• Monday, October 26th 2026 - 13:05 UTC

  Milei stays silent on Lula’s victory as Kast and Peña congratulate him

  

  Argentine President Javier Milei had not congratulated Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva on his re-election in Brazil by Monday, unlike other right-wing South American leaders such as Chile’s José Antonio Kast, Paraguay’s Santiago Peña and Bolivia’s Rodrigo Paz. Milei, who publicly backed Senator Flávio Bolsonaro during the campaign, met his cabinet at the Casa Rosada first thing in the morning.

• Sunday, October 25th 2026 - 09:36 UTC

  Defense and Falklands, PM Burnham call with Chilean president Kast

  

  Ten Downing Street reported on Friday that Prime Minister Andy Burnham spoke to the President of Chile, Jose Antonio Kast on Friday 23 October.

• Saturday, October 24th 2026 - 08:32 UTC

  Burnham tells Trump of the “economic consequences” of Argentina’s Falklands measures

  

  British Prime Minister Andy Burnham set out to US President Donald Trump on Friday “the economic consequences that Argentina’s coercive measures have for the United Kingdom and the United States”, in a phone call focused on the Sea Lion oil project north of the Falklands, according to a Downing Street statement quoted by the EFE news agency. Burnham reiterated the islanders’ right to develop their natural resources.

• Friday, October 16th 2026 - 21:50 UTC

  Kast and Paz open the way in La Paz to normalising Chile-Bolivia relations

  

  Chilean President José Antonio Kast and his Bolivian counterpart Rodrigo Paz pledged on Friday in La Paz to move towards normalising diplomatic relations “at the highest level”, broken off since 1978, during a visit the Chilean government described as historic as the first official bilateral visit by a Chilean president to Bolivia in more than seven decades. The two governments signed economic integration and border security agreements, although they did not announce the restoration of embassies.

• Wednesday, October 14th 2026 - 07:01 UTC

  A tornado and an unusual spring hailstorm overwhelm Santiago, Chile

  

  An electrical storm with hail, unusual in the middle of spring, flooded streets, homes and businesses in Santiago, Chile, on Tuesday and produced a tornado that the Chilean Meteorological Directorate preliminarily classified as EF0, the lowest intensity category. The national disaster prevention and response service declared a red alert in the Metropolitan Region, five days after the mudslide that hit the Las Condes district.

• Friday, October 9th 2026 - 20:53 UTC

  A mudslide sweeps away cars and a bus in Santiago after the wettest October on record

  

  A torrent of water, mud and rocks swept away cars and a public transport bus on Thursday in San Carlos de Apoquindo, in the Las Condes district at the foot of the Andes in eastern Santiago, Chile, after a week of record rainfall. The official toll is six injured, with no deaths or missing, and President José Antonio Kast has declared a disaster zone in the district.

• Tuesday, October 6th 2026 - 22:31 UTC

  British Airways restores non-stop London-Buenos Aires flights and adds a daily Santiago service

  

  British Airways will operate a daily non-stop flight between London Heathrow and Buenos Aires from March 28, 2027, continuing on to Santiago, Chile. A direct route between the British and Argentine capitals has not operated since October 2023.

• Sunday, October 4th 2026 - 21:19 UTC

  Falklands Chamber of Commerce backs the Punta Arenas route despite Argentine warnings

  

  The president of the Falkland Islands Chamber of Commerce, Mike Summers, has defended reopening trade with Chile's Magallanes region despite Argentina's campaign against economic activity linked to the archipelago, and warned that this week's business meeting in Punta Arenas will only be a success once cargo starts crossing the sea.

• Saturday, October 3rd 2026 - 17:11 UTC

  Scientific workshop on Illex Squid in Vigo with the participation of Falkland Islands

  

  Argentine unions linked to the fishing, maritime and port industries have complained bitterly to the International Transport Workers Federation against a workshop on the Shortfin Squid (Illex Argentinus) organized by OPPC3, in Vigo with the suppot of the Sustaianble Fisheries Partnership, and to which Argentina allegedly has not been invited, but it does include the Falkland Islands.