Gabriel Boric is the new president elected, at 35 the youngest in the country’s history; he got over 55% of the votes in elections that recorded a turnout of nearly 56%, the highest since voting stopped being mandatory in 2012

Prisoners that are part of the indigenous Mapuche tribe have gone on a hunger strike for several days in order to protest their prison rights, claiming that they should be granted to hold their religious rituals within the facilities

Workers at the Escondido mine, which is the world’s biggest, have gone on a protest against “serious security incidents”, ultimately costing millions of forgone dollars to the national copper industry

As part of the country’s new official commitment to exit salmon production from protected areas, AquaChile, the country’s largest salmon farming company, has now ended all salmon production in national parks

The Atacama desert, also known as the driest place on Earth, has unexpectedly had a light rainfall that produced a flowering desert, which is a very rare phenomenon that pushed President Gabriel Boric to now protect the area