Mar 01 Santiago Warily Emerges From Quake as South Struggles to Get Basic Needs By Larisa Epatko The night of Chile's massive earthquake, Pascale Bonnefoy, GlobalPost correspondent in Santiago, had just returned home from vacation and gone to bed when she awoke to a house "jumping up and down."… Continue reading
Mar 01 Aftershocks Hit Chile, as Rescue Efforts Continue and Death Toll Rises --Men sit in a street devastated by the tsunami in Talcahuano, Chile. Photo Martin Bernetti/AFP/Getty Images. Three more aftershocks jolted Chile early Monday, as the death toll from this weekend's mammoth earthquake climbed to more than 700 and rescue… Continue reading
Mar 01 Watch Building Codes, Preparation Re-examined After Chile’s Quake As aftershocks continue to strike Chile after Saturday's, Judy Woodruff talks to a crisis expert and a quake researcher about how the damage from this powerful quake differs from a less severe one that killed hundreds of thousands in Haiti. Continue watching
Mar 01 Watch Chile Reels from Quake Aftershocks as Troops Crack Down on Looting More than 700 people are dead after one of the most powerful earthquakes in more than a century hit Chile on Saturday. Since then, troops and police have cracked down on curfew violations in an effort to stop violence and… Continue watching
Feb 28 Aftershocks Rattle Chile as Quake Leaves 1.5 Million Affected Chile was rattled by another powerful aftershock Sunday, one of at least 10 to strike the country in the aftermath of yesterday's 8.8-magnitude earthquake. The latest aftershock struck the capital of Santiago at roughly 8:30 a.m. local time, less… Continue reading
Feb 27 Powerful Earthquake Strikes Chile; Hawaii on Edge After Tsunami Warning Update 7:40pm EST As Chile raced to assess the damage from Saturday's powerful earthquake, Hawaii canceled its tsunami warning after hours of waiting and watching its shores for dangerous waves triggered by the temblor. "We dodged a bullet,"… Continue reading
Jan 18 Chile Elects First Right-Wing President in 52 Years By Larisa Epatko Chileans voted Sunday for billionaire Sebastian Pinera to become the first right-wing elected president since 1958. Continue reading
Jan 18 Watch News Wrap: Americans Jailed in Pakistan Claim Torture In other news, five American Muslims jailed in Pakistan on terrorism charges said in court Monday they have been tortured, and the president of Ukraine has been eliminated from the country's presidential election. Continue watching
Aug 19 Watch Chilean History Examined in ‘The Judge and the General’ Decades after Augusto Pinochet's military dictatorship claimed the lives of thousands of Chileans, a new documentary by Elizabeth Farnsworth and Patricio Lanfranco sheds light on Chile's troubled past. Jeffrey Brown speaks with Farnsworth, a former NewsHour correspondent, about the film. Continue watching
Dec 12 Watch Chileans Mourn, Celebrate Former Dictator Augusto Pinochet’s Death Up to 5,000 supporters of former Chilean dictator Gen. Augusto Pinochet attended his funeral Tuesday, while several thousand protesters rallied in the city center. Elizabeth Farnsworth reports from Santiago on how Chileans are reacting to Pinochet's death. Continue watching