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Enzo Restovic steams a hat at “Donde Golpea el Monito” hat shop and museum, in Santiago, Chile, Saturday, April 5, 2025, which preserves a hat-making tradition dating back to 1915. (AP Photo/Esteban Felix)
AP PHOTOS: Chile’s capital has the oldest hat maker in South America
SANTIAGO, Chile (AP) — Some 110 years have passed since the business began, but passersby, tourists, celebrities and even presidents still gravitate to this 19th-century mansion nestled in the heart of Santiago, Chile.
 
Goalkeeper Brayan Cortes of Chile's Colo Colo confronts fans who invaded the field during a Copa Libertadores Group E soccer match against Brazil's Fortaleza at the Monumental stadium in Santiago, Chile, Thursday, April 10, 2025. (AP Photo/Esteban Felix)
Two fans die in Chile before a Copa Libertadores match between Colo Colo and Fortaleza
Two fans died before the start of a Copa Libertadores match between the host Colo Colo and Fortaleza of Brazil near Santiago’s estadio Monumental, a local prosecutor said.
 
The widow, son, and sister of former Venezuelan dissident military officer Ronald Ojeda, attend his burial service at the Canaan Cemetery, in Santiago, Chile, March 8, 2024, after he was kidnapped and his body was found buried on the outskirts of the capital. (AP Photo/Esteban Felix, File)
Chile seeks to extradite a suspect from the US over the killing of a Venezuelan dissident
Prosecutors in Chile say the country will formally request that the United States extradite a Venezuelan man to stand trial for charges related to the abduction and killing of a Venezuelan ex-army officer and opposition figure last year in Chile.
 
An apartment is illuminated the morning after power was restored from a nationwide blackout in Santiago, Chile, Wednesday, Feb. 26, 2025. (AP Photo/Matias Basualdo)
Electricity returns to most of Chile after a sweeping blackout, but questions remain
Power has been restored to most of Chile’s 19 million people after the nation’s most disruptive blackout in 15 years.
 
A man walks in a parking garage during a power outage, in Santiago, Chile, Tuesday, Feb. 25, 2025. (AP Photo/Matias Basualdo)
Power outage leaves most of Chile in darkness for hours
A sweeping power blackout left most of Chile in darkness for several hours. Tuesday’s blackout sent mobile services offline, paralyzed businesses and forced evacuations of buildings and subways in the South American nation.
 
Argentines on vacation pose for a group picture on the shore of Renaca beach in Vina del Mar, Chile, Thursday, Jan. 30, 2025. (AP Photo/Esteban Felix)
Argentines flock to budget-friendly beaches in neighboring countries as their peso strengthens
On a recent hot summer day in Chile, the beaches of Viña del Mar, Concón and Reñaca are packed with holidaymakers sharing yerba mate teas and playing ball. Others mill about in the shopping centres on the coast and in the capital.
 
Uruguay's former President Jose "Pepe" Mujica sits inside a polling station while waiting to vote in the presidential run-off election in Montevideo, Uruguay, Nov. 24, 2024. (AP Photo/Natacha Pisarenko, File)
Uruguay’s iconic ex-President Jose Mujica says his cancer has spread and that he’s dying
Uruguay’s former guerilla-turned-president, José Mujica, has announced that the cancer in his esophagus had spread to his liver, and that he had chosen to forgo further treatment.
 
Yamandu Orsi, candidate for the Broad Front (Frente Amplio) and running mate Carolina Cosse, right, celebrate after polls closed in the presidential run-off election in Montevideo, Uruguay, Sunday, Nov. 24, 2024. (AP Photo/Natacha Pisarenko)
Uruguay’s leftist opposition candidate Yamandú Orsi becomes country’s new president
Uruguay’s leftist opposition candidate, Yamandú Orsi, became the country’s new president in a tight runoff election that ousted the conservative governing coalition.
 
Supporters of the Frente Amplio (Broad Front) celebrate the victory of candidate Yamandú Orsi in the presidential run-off election in Montevideo, Uruguay, Sunday, Nov. 24, 2024. (AP Photo/Natacha Pisarenko)
Left-wing opposition candidate wins tight presidential election in Uruguay
Uruguay’s leftist opposition candidate, Yamandú Orsi, has claimed victory in a tight runoff presidential election that ousted the conservative governing coalition.
 
Former Chilean Interior Minister Manuel Monsalve is escorted by an Investigative Police agent after he was arrested as part of an investigation into an alleged rape of a female official that led to his resignation, in Santiago, Thursday, Nov. 14, 2024. (AP Photo/Esteban Felix)
Former top official in Chile is arrested on rape charges in a blow to President Boric
Chilean authorities say that a former senior official in the government has been arrested on suspicion of rape.
 
CORRECTS NAME OF MEMBER Satariel, center, a member of The Temple of Satan: Satanists and Luciferians of Chile, takes part in a Celtic pagan celebration, in Santiago, Thursday, Oct. 31, 2024. (AP Photo/Esteban Felix)
The Temple of Satan gains ground in Chile as faith in traditional religions wanes
It’s Friday night in Downtown Santiago, the capital of Chile, and a group of 15 people gather around a table. They share a bottle of wine as the smell of tobacco and incense fill the air.
 
Frente Amplio presidential candidate Yamandu Orsi and running mate Carolina Cosse wave to supporters outside of a hotel after general elections polls closed in Montevideo, Uruguay, Sunday, Oct. 27, 2024. (AP Photo/Natacha Pisarenko)
Uruguay’s presidential runoff will be tight. But with rivals in agreement, it’s no nail-biter
Uruguay’s presidential election has opened a four-week window during which the leading center-left and center-right coalitions will go all-out to pull more voters into their camps ahead of a heated runoff.
 
Frente Amplio presidential candidate Yamandu Orsi gets on stage outside of a hotel after general elections polls closed in Montevideo, Uruguay, Sunday, Oct. 27, 2024. (AP Photo/Natacha Pisarenko)
Uruguay, one of Latin America’s strongest democracies, heads to a runoff between two moderates
The leading contenders in Uruguay’s presidential election say voters in the small South American nation had sent the race to a run-off in November.
 
A police officer stands guard by the eastern entrance of La Moneda presidential palace on the anniversary of the 1973 military coup in Santiago, Chile, Wednesday, Sept. 11, 2024. It was through this entrance that President Salvador Allende's body was carried away 51 years ago and began the dictatorship of Gen. Augusto Pinochet. (AP Photo/Esteban Felix)
Chile’s leftist president vows to seek repeal of dictatorship-era amnesty law
Chile’s left-wing president President Gabriel Boric has promised to push for the repeal of an iron-clad amnesty that has for decades ruled out most investigation of crimes against humanity committed by Gen. Augusto Pinochet’s military dictatorship.
 
Club Palestino soccer team fans celebrate their victory over Santiago Wanderers at a local league match at La Cisterna stadium in Santiago, Chile, Friday, July 12, 2024. (AP Photo/Matias Basualdo)
A Palestinian team in Chile offers soccer with a heavy dose of protest
The players have names like José and Antonio and grew up in a South American nation near Antarctica. But their fervor for the Palestinian cause and bright red, white, black and green-colored jerseys is unmatched.
 
FILE - A Chilean national flag waves as the moon rises in Santiago, Chile, Oct. 27, 2023. Luis Hermosilla, one of Chile's most powerful lawyers, was ordered detained Tuesday, August 27, 2024, pending trial on money laundering and tax fraud charges. (AP Photo/Silvia Izquierdo, File)
Powerful Chilean lawyer ordered detained on corruption charges in case shaking the country’s elite
One of Chile’s most powerful lawyers has been ordered detained pending trial after being indicted on money laundering and tax fraud charges in a case that has rocked the country’s corporate and political elite.
 
FILE - The Bolaños children, from left, Sebastian, Kamila and Miguel Angel, from Venezuela, watch videos on a mobile phone outside the bus terminal where they are living with their single mother Keilly and one other sibling, along with other migrants in Villahermosa, Mexico, June 8, 2024. Their mother was captured in the northern state of Juarez, where she said she was beaten by the military in front of her children, loaded on a bus for two days, and left in Villahermosa. (AP Photo/Felix Marquez, File)
As fallout surges from Venezuela’s election crisis, the region fears another mass exodus
President Nicolás Maduro’s contested claim of victory in last month’s election didn’t just throw Venezuela into uncertainty. It also spread anxiety from neighboring Colombia to faraway Chile as the region braced for a new migration surge.
 
Table tennis player Zhiying Zeng trains at the National Olympic Training Center in Santiago, Chile, Wednesday, June 26, 2024. Born in China and nationalized Chilean, Zeng took a three-decade break from the sport before winning a bronze medal at the 2023 Pan American Games and will be the oldest athlete representing Chile at the 2024 Paris Olympics. (AP Photo/Esteban Felix)
Chinese-Chilean table tennis player makes Olympics debut at age 58 in the Paris Games
Table tennis player Zeng Zhiying left China in 1989, the same year of the Tiananmen Square massacre, to teach the sport in northern Chile.
 
FILE - Migrants, mostly Venezuelans, walk across the Darien Gap from Colombia into Panama, hoping to reach the U.S., Oct. 15, 2022. Refugee agency UNHCR estimates more than 7.7 million Venezuelans have left since 2014, the largest exodus in Latin America’s recent history, with most settling in the Americas, from neighboring Colombia and Brazil to Argentina and Canada. (AP Photo/Fernando Vergara, File)
Forced to emigrate, Venezuelans living abroad hope for change — and to eventually return home
The prolonged economic and political instability in Venezuela has forced millions of Venezuelans to leave over the past decade, quashing many of their dreams and leaving many wondering if they’ll ever return to what was once South America’s most prosperous country.
 
A homeless Chilean man who gave his name as Jose collects items, such as metal, from the El Zanjón de la Aguada water canal, in hopes of reselling it in Santiago, Chile, Wednesday, May 15, 2024. Over the last four years, the rate of homelessness in one of South America's richest economies has jumped more than 30%. (AP Photo/Esteban Felix)
Chileans confront a homelessness crisis, a first for one of South America’s richest countries
The presidential residence of Gabriel Boric, the leftist millennial leader of Chile, shares a street in Santiago, the capital, with a homeless shelter that’s now at full capacity.
 
Foreign ministers, front row, and staff pose for a photo ahead of a Mercosur summit at the Port building in Asuncion, Paraguay, Sunday, July 7, 2024. From left are Uruguay's Omar Paganini, Argentina's Diana Mondino, Paraguay's Ruben Ramirez, Brazil's Mauro Vieira and Bolivia's Celinda Sosa. (AP Photo/Jorge Saenz)
With Argentina’s president skipping Mercosur, the future of the trade alliance looks doubtful
The most notable thing about the annual Mercosur summit kicking off in Paraguay is an absence — that of Argentine President Javier Milei. He became the first Argentine leader to skip the annual summit since his country’s 2001 financial catastrophe.
 
Silverio, a twelve-day-old white rhino, runs next to his mother Hannah during his presentation at the Buin Zoo in Santiago, Chile, Tuesday, July 2, 2024. The baby rhino’s birth is the third of this endangered species born at the Buin. (AP Photo/Esteban Felix)
Newborn white rhino Silverio takes his first giant steps in a Chilean zoo in a boost to his species
Newborn white rhinoceros Silverio has taken his first giant steps in public at the Chilean zoo where he was born.
 
Born in Chile and adopted in the U.S., Marine Jimmy Lippert Thyden González arrives at the Supreme Court to present a criminal complaint against the Chilean government for child abduction, a widespread practice that spanned decades, in Santiago, Chile, Monday, July 1, 2024. Thyden González discovered more than a year prior that he was stolen at birth during the Augusto Pinochet regime. (AP Photo/Esteban Felix)
Stolen at birth, an adoptee sues Chile over thousands of similar dictatorship-era crimes
A Chilean-American raised in the United States has filed a criminal complaint against the state of Chile alleging that it engaged in a systematic plan to steal thousands of babies from perceived enemies of the state in the 1970s and 1980s.
 
A person with an umbrella goes down an escalator at a subway station during heavy rain in Santiago, Chile, Thursday, June 13, 2024. (AP Photo/Matias Basualdo)
Storms in Chile damage homes, flood roads and leave at least 1 person dead
Heavy rains lashed much of Chile, damaging homes, flooding roads, knocking out power and causing mudslides that have swept through residential areas.