Chile's 2026 growth outlook is down to 0.6% according to the IMF, with two consecutive negative monthly activity readings and a fierce fight over the Kast administration's social spending cuts.

Chile's pension regulator opened sanction proceedings involving seven AFP administrators as the most conservative fund recorded a 10.39% real decline through September, reopening the fight over retirement security.

Centinela’s miners approve a 36-month contract after striking over unequal pay and benefits. Union leaders point to recurring earnings and an equality clause as the central gains.

More than 700 copper workers at Chile’s Centinela operation have secured a preliminary contract agreement after striking for equal benefits.

More than 700 Centinela workers are on strike as mediation stalls and three union members stage a hunger strike.

A German archival record undermines Chile’s president’s repeated denials, while police crackdowns on students and an attempted expansion of emergency powers reveal his own politics of repression.

Students occupied two buildings in Temuco after accusing Chile’s government of withholding CLP 30 million for Mapuche cultural activities.

Chile’s unemployment rate has reached 9.6% as the Kast government turns to public investment and hiring subsidies after campaigning on a business-led jobs revival.

Students, teachers and workers marched in Santiago against feared education and public-service cuts as José Antonio Kast’s 2027 budget heads to Congress.

At the world’s largest copper mine, supervisors overwhelmingly rejected BHP’s contract offer. The dispute centers on pay, schedules, work intensity and the distribution of value from a strategic mineral asset.

Iran in 1953 and Chile in 1973 show what happened when elected governments challenged control over oil, copper and capital: covert U.S. power moved to change the political balance.