Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. STORY: :: Makarena Avendano A tornado ripped across the city of Puerto Varas in southern Chile on Sunday. The severe weather ...

In that election, the people of Chile rejected that, that possibility of Pinochet staying in power. And that is why I have some hope, as well. I feel as if that joy was demobilized. That struggle, ...

John Bartlett for NPR Out beyond Isla Focus, a bare island in the fjords an hour off the coast of Puerto Natales, southern Chile, the waves pick up and the Calipso rocks alarmingly from side to side.

When I first arrived in Santiago, Chile, I landed without a checklist, without a plan, without knowing how long I’d stay—or if I’d stay at all. And those first few months, I couldn’t quite articulate ...