Tag: Jose Antonio Kast

• 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.

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• 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.

• Thursday, September 10th 2026 - 23:28 UTC

  68% of Chileans consider the Falklands British and 60% see Argentina as unreliable, poll shows

  

  A majority of Chileans consider the Falklands British and regard Argentina as an unreliable partner, according to the latest Plaza Pública survey by pollster Cadem, released days after Argentine President Javier Milei visited Santiago and met his Chilean counterpart, José Antonio Kast.

• Thursday, September 10th 2026 - 08:25 UTC

  Argentina claims Chile is committed to no logistic support for Falklands’ oil industry

  

  The Argentine government has insisted, following the recent presidential Summit between Javie Milei and Chilean leaded Jose Antonio Kast, that their Andean neighbor will continue to strongly support Argentina’s claim over the Falkland Islands and will render no logistic support related to any hydrocarbons extraction in the Islands”.

• Friday, September 4th 2026 - 08:01 UTC

  Chile backs Falklands claim as Argentina recognizes its sovereignty over Magellan Strait

  

  Chilean President José Antonio Kast on Thursday reiterated his government's backing for Argentina's sovereignty rights over the Falklands, South Georgia, the South Sandwich Islands and the surrounding maritime areas, following a bilateral meeting in Santiago with his Argentine counterpart, Javier Milei. At the same meeting, Milei recognized Chilean sovereignty over the whole of the Strait of Magellan.

• Wednesday, August 26th 2026 - 08:42 UTC

  Chile debates a state of emergency of up to eight months without congressional approval

  

  José Antonio Kast's government indicated on Tuesday it was willing to amend the constitutional security reform bill it submitted to the Senate on August 17, after the proposal drew objections both from the opposition and from parties within its own coalition.

• Tuesday, August 11th 2026 - 09:18 UTC

  Kast rules out backing bill that ties abortion access to hearing the fetal heartbeat

  

  Chilean President José Antonio Kast said on Monday that his government would not push forward a bill introduced by lawmakers from his own coalition that would condition access to legal abortion on a woman agreeing to hear the fetus's cardiac activity.

• Wednesday, August 5th 2026 - 21:37 UTC

  Sixty deputies ask Kast to pardon officers convicted over the 2019 unrest

  

  Sixty Chilean deputies asked President José Antonio Kast on Wednesday to grant individual pardons to members of the Carabineros police force and the armed forces convicted over acts linked to their duties during the protests that began on October 18, 2019.

• Tuesday, July 21st 2026 - 17:59 UTC

  Chile declares state of catastrophe in the north after storm leaves at least ten dead

  

  Chile's president, José Antonio Kast, declared on Monday a 30-day constitutional state of catastrophe in the Coquimbo region and the Huasco province, in the Atacama region, in response to the intense storm battering the country's north. According to the government's latest tally, the phenomenon has left at least ten people dead nationwide, four missing, and nearly 100,000 residents cut off by road closures. Authorities warned the toll could rise, as numerous areas remain unreachable.

• Friday, July 3rd 2026 - 08:55 UTC

  In Uruguay, Kast urges harsher penalties for crime leaders and total prison isolation

  

  Chile's President José Antonio Kast argued on Wednesday in Montevideo that the region's countries must toughen their laws to combat organized crime, with life sentences for those who lead gangs and a regime of total isolation in prisons to stop them from continuing to operate from behind bars. The president laid out his position after meeting with Uruguayan President Yamandú Orsi, as part of an official visit to Uruguay.