Sebastian Pinera, the billionaire who brought Chile’s political right wing out from the shadow of former dictator Augusto Pinochet to win two separate terms as president, died in a helicopter crash in the south of the country. https://t.co/y3ei3Q5JEH

Without the funding, how can Chile's government hope push through social reform. Where they go from here is anyone's guess. https://t.co/B0rE5LW0bC

Cancel that shopping trip to Miami, it's Chile where clothing prices keep falling -- according to official figures https://t.co/f8CiqiE0Pq

It may not feel this way in Chile, and it is all relative, but Chile is beginning to look like a Latam safe haven again. https://t.co/A76xoNTwpu

Argentina may find itself between a rock and a hard place -- forced to chose between printing money or reprofiling its local currency debt. https://t.co/XOFtUJHtsQ

Part of Valparaiso's appeal was that it was edgy, authentic. Now it is just abandoned and crumbling. https://t.co/ZF6SVE2AUP

Hilarious!!! An entire rag’s strategy and news values bent to try to get the putrescence that is Dacre’s bum onto the comfy seats in the Lords ….

Chile's election is as much as battle of generations as it is of economic ideologies. https://t.co/bE0Ty0PNIA

People queued patiently for over an hour to vote this morning in Quinta Normal. Everyone wore a face mask. Ejemplar.

There was no one driving on the protestors to burn the church. No ring leader that I could see. Just seemed to be the result of a city abandoned by security forces to a small group of vandals.

The Argentine embassy stood untouched near by, people strolling past shouting up jokes to others sitting on the edge of what was once the window to another burnt out building

Half-hearted attempts to build a barricade failed after the railings all fell over at the same time, almost catching a woman chatting quietly with friends on the back of the leg.

Laughter rang out as a saucepan was launched at the window above the door. A man incongruously sitting quietly at the bus stop was startled awake by a petrol bomb bouncing off the window and exploding near him

The Asuncion church wasn't burnt down in a frenzied attack by a horde of anarchists on Sunday, rather it was the result of a leisurely afternoon of vandalism by a dozen or so protesters.

Pinera puts UDI in charge of the Interior Ministry as he tries to reimpose order on the ruling coalition and as the country braces for the return of anti-govt protests. Risk of this looking King Canutesque in a few months given the political tide

Chile is easing the quarantine in the `barrio alto' of Santiago. I understand the logic, but how will that go down in the rest of the city?

Pinera says he will sign the pension bill tomorrow `given the difficult economic and social situation many families are going through'. Is that an attempt to own it?

Chile's pension bill gets final congressional approval with a two thirds majority in the Chamber of Deputies, well above the 3/5s required. Now Pinera must decide whether to promulgate a bill he bitterly opposed.

Chile's Senate passes pension bill. The beginning of the end to a flagship policy that built a capitals market, boosted savings, buttressed the peso, but never did what it was meant to -- pay decent pensions.

Mexico's recorded Covid crisis is just the tip of the iceberg https://t.co/lPWD3xMhQo